Module Descriptor

04/11/2012

Code:

CE00804-5

Version:

3

Approval Status:

Valid Current

Title:

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS

Section:

Computing, Engineering and Sciences

Level:

5

Contact

E-mail Address

VLE

PIROOZ SAEIDI

[email-masked]

Blackboard

Pattern Of Delivery

Credits

15

Contact Hours

Independent Study Hours

Total Learning Hours

36

114

150

Description of Pattern of
Delivery

Pattern 1, study 100% in period 2

Pattern 2, study 100% in period
3

Site

STOKE-ON-TRENT COLLEGE

STAFFORD

Registration Conditions

Module Version Condition Text

None

Module Details

Assessment Details

An EXAM length 2 HOURS weighted at 70%. A COURSEWORK weighted at
30%.

Coursework weighted at 30% (Learning Outcome
1).
Examination, unseen in exam conditions length 2 hours,
weighted at 70% (Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3, and 4).

Indicative Content

Transmission media (e.g. copper and fibre optic cabling,
wireless transmission)
LAN Topologies (e.g. bus, ring, star), LAN
standards (e.g. Ethernet) and layer-2 addresses
Layer 3 issues,
routing and addressing (e.g. IP)
Connection-oriented v
connectionless layer 4 (e.g. TCP and UDP)
WAN technologies and
services (e.g. leased lines, ISDN, Frame Relay)

Application-layer software (e.g. e-mail, FTP, Web browsers and
Web servers)
Network security (e.g. anti-virus software,
firewalls, encryption, digital signatures, PKI, VPNs, SSL,
IPSec)
Network management (e.g. network management categories,
SNMP, MIB, RMON)
Multimedia hardware
Language translators
(assemblers, interpreters and compilers) - structure and
operation.

Learning Strategies

The material will be presented through a combination of
lectures, tutorial/practicals and independent self-directed
study.
The normal delivery pattern will be (1:n)2
(1:20)1.
However, for other non-traditional delivery such as the
Fast-track MEng which will be delivered over the summer, the pattern
will be (1:n)4 (1:20)2 for a 6 week period. This is exactly the same
number of hours, although the timescale for delivery is
reduced.

Prospectus Information

This module will build upon the knowledge of computer networks
that you gained from Hardware, Software Systems & Networks.
Approximately 2/3 of the module will be devoted to networks.
In
addition, you will study the following:
- hardware that is used
in multimedia computer systems
- language translators (compilers,
interpreters and assemblers that translate programming language
source code into a suitable form to be executed by a computer -
machine language).

Resources

Standard network laboratory facilities.
Java
language.
Opnet IT Guru Academic Edition.

Special Admissions Requirements

Prior study of Hardware, Software Systems and Networks or
equivalent.

Texts

Main course text:
Communications and Networking: An
Introduction, John Cowley, 2007, Springer, ISBN:
1-84628-488-0

Programming language Processors in Java,
David Watt and Deryck Brown, Prentice Hall, 2000, ISBN
0-13-025786-9

Background Reading:
Computer Systems,
Sebastian Coope, Neil Willis, John Cowley, Publisher: McGraw-Hill,
2002, ISBN: 007709803
X

Computer Networks and Internets
with Internet Applications, Douglas E Comer and Ralph E Droms, 2004,
4th Ed, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 013123627
X

Computer
Networks, 4th Edition (International Edition), Andrew Tanenbaum,
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR, ISBN: 0-13-038488-7
,
2003

Learning Outcome

1) EXPLAIN THE OPERATION OF CURRENT LAN & WAN
STANDARDS, AND EXPLAIN AND APPLY TCP/IP AND ASSOCIATED PROTOCOLS AND
APPLICATIONS.

Application

Enquiry

Reflection

2. INVESTIGATE AND EXPLAIN THE OPERATION OF NETWORK MANAGEMENT
AND NETWORK SECURITY SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE.

Communication

3) EXPLAIN THE OPERATION OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR
SOFTWARE.

Communication

4) EXPLAIN THE OPERATION OF HARDWARE USED IN MULTIMEDIA COMPUTER
SYSTEMS AND THE FACILITIES THESE PROVIDE TO MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS.

Communication