Course Modules

1. Introduction

1.1 Communication protocols
1.1.1 Protocol layering
1.1.2 Protocol models
1.1.3 OSI reference model
1.1.4 TCP/IP Protocol stack
1.1.5 ATM Protocol stack
1.1.6 Standardization of protocols
1.2 Data communications
1.2.1 Data encapsulation and the layer hierarchy
1.2.2 Switching
1.2.3 Error Control
1.2.4 Flow Control
1.2.5 Segmentation and reassembly
1.2.6 Addressing
1.2.7 Routing in IP Networks
1.2.8 Tunneling
1.2.9 Authentication and encryption
1.2.10 Logical names and addresses
1.2.11 Network Management
1.2.12 Signaling
1.3 Data transmission technologies
1.3.1 Local Area Network (LAN)
1.3.2 Wide Area Network (WAN)
1.3.3 Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)
1.3.4 Topology
1.4 LAN Technologies and Ethernet
1.4.1 Protocol architecture
1.4.2 Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
1.4.3 Ethernet frame format
1.4.4 Ethernet interconnection devices
1.5 WAN Technologies
1.5.1 Frame relay
1.5.2 ATM
1.6 Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
1.6.1 MPLS Architecture
1.6.2 MPLS Label
1.6.3 Label Swapping
1.6.4 MPLS Traffic Engineering

2. TCP/IP Suite Protocols

2.1 IP terminology
2.2 Internet Protocol IP
2.3 Internet Control Message Protocol ICMP
2.4 User Datagram Protocol UDP
2.5 Transmission Control Protocol TCP
2.5.1 TCP services
2.5.2 TCP Header
2.5.3 Sliding window
2.5.4 Error control
2.6 Stream Control Transmission Protocol
2.6.1 SCTP header
2.6.2 SCTP chunks
2.6.3 SCTP Internal functions

3. Tunneling

3.1 Introduction to tunneling
3.2 GTP Version 1
3.2.1 GTP Version 1 header
3.2.2 GTP messages
3.2.3 Path management messages
3.2.4 Tunnel Management Messages
3.2.5 Location Management Messages
3.3 GTP’ (GTP Prime)
3.3.1 GTP’ header
3.3.2 GTP’ messages
3.4 Generic Routing Encapsulation GRE
3.5 IP-in-IP encapsulation
3.6 VPN Overview

4. DNS, SNMP and roaming in IP Core network

4.1 DNS Name servers
4.1.1 Types of name servers
4.1.2 Primaries and secondaries
4.1.3 Forwarding servers
4.1.4 DNS Name resolution
4.2 SNMP in Mobile IP Core
4.2.1 SNMP v1
4.2.2 SNMP v2
4.2.3 SNMP v3
4.3 Roaming in Mobile IP Core
4.3.1 Border Gateway Router
4.3.2 Roaming implementations
4.3.3 GRX