1. To demonstrate the basics of designing a network, taking into consideration the users, services, and locations of the hosts.
2. To simulate and study the basic features of an inter-domain routing protocol called Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
3. To analyse the performance of RIP, a routing protocol built on a distance-vector routing algorithm.
4. To study the role of firewalls and virtual private networks (VPNs) in providing security to shared public networks such as the Internet.
5. The performance of local area networks connected by switches and hubs.
6. To study the effect of Web caching and data compression on the response time involved in accessing Web pages and on the load on the Web server.
7. Plot the characteristics curve between throughput and offered traffic for a slotted ALOHA system.
8. To simulate an Ethernet LAN using n nodes and set multiple traffic nodes plot contention window for different source destination pair.
9. To implement a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) using the IEEE 802.11 standard.
10. To understand the different routing algorithms in wireless ad-hoc networks.
11. To simulate a three nodes point –to- point network with duplex link between them. Set the Queue size and vary the bandwidth to find the number of packets dropped.
12. Simulate the transmission of ping message over a network topology consisting of 6 nodes and find the number of packets dropped during the congestion.
13. To study how the bit error rate and data rate varies with the distance between Access point and the wireless node is varied.
14. To study an IoT based Smart Agricultural system
15. To Install and connect different IoT things to Node controller boards

The objective of the course is to ensure that students have the necessary networking skills to design, implement, and analyze communication networks.

Various standards and protocols will be covered.

Students will be able to design, implement, and analyze communication networks.

Students will get insight with different protocols and network design.
To be able to apply the IoT architecture to solve the real world problems.

1. Rajiv Ramaswami and Kumar Sivarajan, Optical WDM Networks, Springer , 2006