SM852

Indian Institute of Technology

Department of Management Studies

SM 852 Network systems: Applications and management

(First semester 1999-2000; July to December)

Instructor: Shivraj Kanungo

Consulting hours: Day [Wednesday 4:00-5:00pm]

Classes will be held based on the timetable to be declared by Dr. M. P. Gupta

Course objectives

This course exposes students to emerging networking solutions for business. Network-based business technologies including intranets, video-conferencing systems, EDI, group technologies, computer supported collaborative work, etc. are covered. Decision frameworks for making network investment and related decisions are covered and students are expected to take up a specific network to perform in-depth studies of network performance indicators, network security, network costs, inter-networking strategies and network performance monitoring. Network administration of LANs

Course Contents

Module 1: Networking fundamentals, Communication fundamentals (transmission and transmission media; communication techniques; transmission efficiency) Wide area networks, local area networks, ISDN; OSI architecture, IBM's SNA, Digital’s DNA, Internetworking; network applications - EDI, Email, file transfer, conferencing. Enterprise networking Module 2: Network technologies and applications Design and development of enterprise networks; Web-based application development, Design of large-scale intranets, Network and systems management issues, Remote access to computer resources, Network and system security Module 3: Managing networks Preparing for doing business on the Internet; Choosing and costing networks and network services; network management requirements; network performance indicators; performance monitoring

Course schedule

	Week	Topic	Student seminar/assignment	Readings
Next Day (Chap 01)	1	Fundamentals of data communication; Computer to computer communication; OSI model	Learn HTML programming and create a page of your own. Get a site somewhere on the net and put your page there. A good HTML tutorial is available at http://www.cwru.edu/help/introHTML/toc.html	Chapter 1: Stallings Chapters 1-2: Fitzgerald and Dennis Chapter 1-2: Goldman
Next Day (Chap 02)	2	Layer 1 (physical) and Layer 2 (data link)	Make your web page "interactive" using concepts like forms. The sequel to the tutorial mentioned above is at http://www.cwru.edu/help/interHTML/toc.html	Chapter 2-3: Stallings Chapters 3-4: Fitzgerald and Dennis Chapter 3: Goldman
Next Day (Chap 03)	3	Layer 3 (network)	Make your web page a little more "nifty" using tables. And visual effects. The sequel to the tutorial mentioned above is at http://www.cwru.edu/help/wilbur/	Chapters 5-6: Fitzgerald and Dennis
Next Day (Chap 04)	4	Local area networks	Now you should be ready to imbed Java applets into your web page. So learn Java. The site is http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/index.html	Chapter 7: Fitzgerald and Dennis Chapter 7: Goldman (A)
Next Day (Chap 05)	5	Local area networks	Write a small Java applet for your web page. This could a simple calculator or a simple game or whatever – even a button that, when pressed, returns "hello world."	Chapters 8 and 9: Goldman (A)
Next Day (Chap 06)	6	LAN network operating system; comparative analysis	I am most interested in your being thorough with the following part of the tutorial http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/networking/index.html Nothing due this week.	Chapters 10,11,12 and 13: Goldman (A)
Next Day (Chap 07)	7	Network components – an in-depth look: hub, bridge, switch, router, brouter, gateway	Write your first serious applet. Make sure that you compiled an applet and included it in an HTML page	Chapter 8: Fitzgerald and Dennis Chapter 14: Goldman (A)
Next Day (Chap 08)	8	Wide area networks	Write an applet using the openStream() method to return a java.io.InputStream object to read from any URL	Chapter 9: Fitzgerald and Dennis
Next Day (Chap 09)	9	Enterprise network architecture	Write a Java applet that allows you to read and write to/from a URL connection	Chapter 16: Goldman (A)
Next Day (Chap 10)	10	Enterprise network applications	Write a client and server program in C that works in your UNIX account. Run the standard echo server and client programs available from Stevens book or any other source.	Chapter 17: Goldman (A)
Next Day (Chap 11)	11	Security issues in corporate networks	Use the UNIX echo server to communicate with your Java client that you write in your NT workstation.	Chapter 12: Fitzgerald and Dennis
Next Day (Chap 12)	12	Network economics and costing	Refine the UNIX server (written in C) and the Java client on the NT to work using both UDP as well as TCP.	Case-based
	13	Network management	Write a web application using Java of your choice that works off your URL.	Chapter 11: Fitzgerald and Dennis
	14	Special topic

Course materials

The course materials consist of handouts that will be available for students to photocopy. There is substantial material that you will have to cover during this course. Please ensure that you go through the weekly reading for the sake of weekly quizzes – if not anything else.

Course readings

Nancy Cox. (1997) Building and managing a Web services team , New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold,

Kevin Pagan, Scott Fuller (1997) Intranet firewalls, Research Triangle Park, NC : Ventana, c1997.

Goldman, James E. (1997) Aplied data communications: A business-oriented approach, New York : J. Wiley (required)

Goldman, James E. (1997) Local area networks: A client-server approach, New York : J. Wiley (required)

Alan R. Simon. (1994) Network re-engineering, Boston : AP Professional

James D. McCabe (1998).Practical computer network analysis and design, New York: Morgan-Kaufmann.

Stallings, W. (1985) Data and computer communications, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.

Fitzgerald, J. and Dennis, A. (1996) Business data communications and networking, Fifth Edition, New York: John Wiley (required)

Interesting Web sites

TUTORIALS and RESOURCE PAGES	WEB REFERENCE
Interesting and simple data communication site	http://www.unisource.se/datacom/
Excellent LAN tutorial	http://atzhim3.gordon.army.mil/css/training/LAN/
Nice little tutorial on LAN wiring + overall LAN	http://www.d-m.com/tutorial.htm
Tutorial on Internet Monitoring	http://www.slac.stanford.edu:5080/comp/net/wan-mon/tutorial.html
TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview from IBM	http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/resource/aix_resource/Pubs/redbooks/htmlbooks/gg243376.04/3376fm.html
Excellent LAN tutorial from Syracuse University	http://web.syr.edu/~jmwobus/lans/tutorials.html
Excellent tutorial links for "networks"	http://www.wizard.com/users/baker/public_html/NetTutor.html
LAN's & Networking Reference Links	http://www.hana.org/netinfo.htm
Internet Tutorials and Background	http://www.unh.edu/Internet/web/tutorials.html
Tutorials from RAD Corporation	http://www.rad.com/networks/tutorial.htm
Excellent tutorials from NetworkMagazine	http://www.networkmagazine.com/magazine/tutorial/
Fast Ethernet tutorial from LANTRONIX	http://www.lantronix.com/htmfiles/whitepapers/lfrwp.htm
Information technology professional resource center	http://www.itprc.com/
Internet addressing schemes	http://www.w3.org/Addressing/schemes
Understanding IP addressing from 3COM	http://www.3com.com/nsc/501302s.html
DNS Resources Directory	http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/
TCP/IP routing Tutorial	http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/9363/fguide.htm
How to Connect to the Internet and World Wide Web	http://www.centerspan.org/tutorial/connect.htm
Internetworking Technology Overview	http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/
Comparison of NOVELL and TCP/IP architectures	http://www.odyssea.com/whats_new/tcpipnet/tcpipnet.html
A networking primer from Bay Networks	http://www.baynetworks.com/products/Papers/wp-primer.html
New Paradigms Challenge the PC LAN Topology – A Gartner group report	http://gartner5.gartnerweb.com/public/static/software/rn/00033861.html

MAGAZINES
LAN Times	http://www.lantimes.com/
InternetWeek	http://www.internetwk.com/
Network Computing	http://www.nwc.com/
Data Communications	http://www.data.com/
InformationWeek	http://www.iweek.com/
Planet IT	http://www.planetit.com/

REFERENCE SITES
PC Webopedia	http://webopedia.internet.com/
What is?	http://whatis.com/

NETWORK SECURITY
Guideline for the Analysis Local area Network Security - FIPS	http://www.reeusda.gov/issp/rules/fips191.htm

NETWORK FAQ
Networking questions @MSN	http://computingcentral.msn.com/Topics/networking/questions.asp
Bradford Enterprises Guide to Information Networks Tutorial	http://manuel.brad.ac.uk/BEGIN/tutor.htm

WEB DESIGN
Web Developers Journal	http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/hubs/howtohub.html
Web Design Bookmarks	http://www.cfa.unsw.edu.au/mmc/resource.htm

JAVA STUFF
The Java language specification	http://www.vorlesungen.uni-osnabrueck.de//informatik/java/java/javaspec/javaspec_1.html
The Java(tm) Virtual Machine Specification	http://www.vorlesungen.uni-osnabrueck.de//informatik/java/java/vmspec/vmspec-1.html

Delivery mode

The course will be taught in a lecture mode once a week with associated exercises. There will be two projects which will be group exercises and there will be a mid-term and final examination. These examinations will consist of both objective type questions and questions that require some computation and elaboration.

Distribution of marks

Component	Marks
Minor 1	15
Minor 2	15
Projects	15
Term paper	15
Quizzes	10
Final exam	30
Total	100

Important dates

Minor 1	Minor week	Week 1-5
Minor 2	Minor week	Week 6-10
Term paper	22/11/99	Choose a topic after discussing it with me. Make sure that the topic for consideration contains learning issues for managers and that a real case is documented. It is in your interest to start work on this case as soon in the semester as you can. 22/11/99 is the very last day. You are welcome to make the submission of the term paper a month before the deadline also. But, too early a submission will set me thinking …
Project	22/11/99	See week 13 in the course schedule.

Note:

Make-up examinations are ruled pout except in the case sanctioned by the departmental research committee (DRC)

A minimum class attendance of 75% is an institute requirement. So please schedule your activities such that attendance does not suffer.

No hand-written project submissions will be accepted. You have to submit your assignments to my internet account. Email attachments are fine.

I expect all of you to buy the prescribed books.

It is expected that you develop a love for programming in this course even if you believe that programming is not your cup of tea.

It is not only expected, but mandatory, that you do the weekly readings before you come for the class.