SEE312 - Data Communication

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

Offering information:

Available at the Burwood (Melbourne) campus from 2026

Enrolment modes:Trimester 1: Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Pubudu Pathirana
Prerequisite:

SEE216 or SEE202

Corequisite:Nil
Incompatible with: SIT202
Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:

1 x 1 hour seminar per week, 3 x 1 hour practical experiences (laboratories) per trimester.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment:

Online independent and collaborative learning including a 1 x 1 hour seminar per week. Students are required to attend and participate in practical experiences (laboratories) at the Waurn Ponds (Geelong) Campus for the scheduled sessions during the trimester intensive activities as detailed in the unit site.

Content

The unit provides an understanding in the basic principles of data communications and computer networking. The fundamental aspects underpinning the core developments in state of the art technologies, operational philosophies and hierarchical architectures in this field of modern computer networks and internetworking, will be examined in detail. In particular, the unit will cover the TCP/IP protocol suite with an emphasis on layers architecture, transmission mediums, data encoding, error detection and correction, medium access control, local and wide area networks as well as ATMS, Cellular Wireless Networks, bridges and routing technologies, node-to-node communications and end-to-end protocols.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1

Understand the basic hardware and software environments for data communications.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO6: Self-management

ULO2

Explain the need for protocols and describe the current networking paradigms at a theoretical level.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO6: Self-management

ULO3

Describe various types of computer networks.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO4

Understand the advanced high-speed multimedia network technologies.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO6: Self-management

ULO5

Describe the TCP/IP protocol architecture.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO6: Self-management

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week

Assessment 1
Quiz 1

Online multiple choice and short answer quiz 10% Weeks 1 - 5

Assessment 2
Quiz 2

Online multiple choice and short answer quiz 10% Weeks 1 - 9

Assessment 3
Laboratory report

Laboratory report 30% Week 10
End-of-Unit Assessment Timed online test 50% End-of-Unit Assessment Period

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Hurdle requirement

To be eligible to obtain a pass in this unit, students must achieve an overall mark of at least 30% in the End-of-Unit Assessment.

Learning Resource

Prescribed text(s): Stallings, 2013, Data and Computer Communications, 10th Ed, Pearson Education, Harlow, United Kingdom.

The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: SEE312 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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