This course provides a foundation of computer and network security. It covers security policy design, information classification and access control, security infrastructure design, software application security, network partitioning, risk analysis, virtual private networks, platform hardening, vulnerability assessment, basic cryptography (both symmetric key and asymmetric key), digital signature, authentication, personal identifier, certificate and key management. This course also emphasizes on mail security, IP security, web security, network intrusion, signatures of attacks, as well as intrusion detection and prevention using firewalls and other security software.

This course provides an overview of computer networks and communications, covering the following topics: computer network reference models such as OSI and TCP/IP, basics of wired and wireless digital communications, concepts of peer-to-peer communications, LAN and WAN (such as Ethernet and ATM), network layer design issues, routing algorithms, congestion control methodologies, standards and examples of network protocols, transport layer design issues, quality of services, standards and examples of transport protocols (such as TCP and UDP), network security, and computer network applications (such as the Internet, emails, World Wide Web, and the voice and video communications over computer networks).

Practical experiments related to 13016241 Computer Networks and Communications

This course introduces fundamental concepts of mobile computing. These include an overview of hardware architectures of mobile devices, wireless communications and networking technologies for mobile devices, sensors and peripherals, location awareness, mobile operating systems and software architectures, software development for mobile devices, and applications of mobile devices.