Anglia Ruskin University

Sponsoring Professor: Michael Smith

Department: Department of Computing and Technology

Teaching

Course titles: MSc Mobile Telecommunication, BSc Network Infrastructure & Security

Module title: Network Programming and Simulation

With the massive growth of the Internet and the varied and diverse range of devices used to access it there is growing demands for practitioners that are able to both implement low level networking protocols and to simulate network topologies to ascertain their performance.

The module is in two parts: the first part focuses on network programming and builds on the student's knowledge of procedural programming to be able to implement underlying networking protocols such as TCP/IP on a wide variety of devices; the second part focuses on network simulation and uses the industry standard simulation tool, OPNET, to specify network topologies and assess their performance capabilities.

The module is assessed by assignment and will involve the design and implementation of part of a networking protocol on a relevant end device and the simulation and modelling of a typical network. It is anticipated that as part of the module assessment students will implement a networking protocol on a device so that it can be accessed via the Internet.

Students studying this module should have a good working knowledge of programming, preferably using C or C++ and should be conversant with basic computer architecture principles.

Students will use OPNET to perform performance analysis of network configurations and will build network models using C++.

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