Professional competence:
The students:

• Identify the layers of the ISO/OSI model
• Recognise the main concepts and algorithms of each IOS/OSI layer
• Assign technical processes to the layers
• Classify new technologies to the main concepts of the ISO/OSI model - Compare different methods and approaches of a layer (i.e. TCP and UDP)
• Characterise safety-critical aspects of each layer

Methodological competence:
The students:

• Administer small networks
• Characterise safety-critical aspects of networks

Social competence:
The students: 

• work on exercises in small teams

Self-competence:
The students:

• accept criticism
• reflect on their proposed solutions, taking into account the methods taught

Contents of this lecture (cf. suggested reading Tanenbaum and Wetherall):

• Introduction to networks and the internet
• Physical Layer
• Data Link Layer
• MAC Sub-Layer
• Network Layer
• Transport Layer
• Session Layer
• Presentation Layer
• Application Layer
• Technologies (Cable and Co)
• Nyquist Shannon and Transmissions - CDMA
• Hamming & CRC
• Stop & wait, go back n, selective repeat
• Aloha & CSMA
• Ethernet technologies
• Wifi
• Paket switchen & Dijsktra
• IP Adressing & Header
• TCP
• UDP
• Buckets & TCP-Reno
• DNS
• Flask
• RSA & PGP
• Firewalls

lecture notes - A. Tanenbaum & D. Wetherall: Computernetzwerke, Pearson Studiu, 5. Aufl. 2012

At the end of the lecture period

Written or oral exam