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Syllabus 2013MCAUnit III. (12)The Network LayerNetwork layer design issues, Routing Algorithms: Optimality principle, Shortest Path Routing,Flooding, Distance Vector Routing, Link State Routing, Hierarchical Routing, BroadcastRouting, Multicast Routing; Congestion Control Algorithms: Congestion Prevention Policies,Jitter Control, Techniques for achieving good quality of service, Congestion control formulticasting; Internetworking, The Network layer in the Internet.Unit IV. (11)The Transport LayerThe Transport service, Elements of Transport protocols: Addressing, ConnectionEstablishment, Connection Release, Flow Control and Buffering, Multiplexing, Crashrecovery; A simple Transport protocol, The Internet Transport protocols: UDP, TCP.Unit V.The Application Layer and Network Security (12)Introduction to Application Layer, lossy and lossless compression techniques, Audio andVideo Compression Techniques, Video on demand; Network Security: Cryptography:Introduction to cryptography, Substitution Ciphers, Transposition Ciphers, One-Time Pads,Fundamental Cryptographic Principles; Symmetric key encryption, Symmetric KeyAlgorithms: DES, Cipher Modes, Cryptanalysis; Public-Key Algorithms: Public-Keyencryptions, RSA. Web Security: Threats, Secure Naming, Mobile Code Security;Text Book:[1] Andrew S Tanenbaum ,Computer Networks, PHI publications, 5 th Edition, 2012.Reference Books:[1] Forouzan, Behrouz A., Mosharraf Firouz., Computer Networks A Top-Down Approach,TaTa McGraw Hill publications, First Edition, 2012.[2] Stallings, William, Data & Computer Communications, Pearson Education Asia, 6 thEdition, 2001.[3] Prakash C. Gupta, Data communications and Computer Networks, 1 st Edition, 5 thReprint, PHI, 2009.Christ University, Bangalore, India 50