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BLOCK II: Internet Technology

UNIT 1 Networking Concepts: networking hardware, connections-bandwidth,
speed, interfaces, IP address and MAC address

UNIT 2 Cloud Computing Concepts: types and services; applications of cloud
computing- online data storage, backup and recovery, Big-data analysis,
Development and Testing, E-commerce application, cloud computing in
education; IoT and wearable devices

UNIT 3 Wireless and Mobile Technologies: Bluetooth, Wifi, Wi-max, Zigbee; Mobile
communication- GPS, GPRS, GSM, 3G, 3.5G, Features of 4G and 4G
LTE, VoLTE,5G

UNIT 4 Web Pages creation and hosting: web client, web servers, HTTP
request-response, web page creation and web hosting

UNIT 5 Cyber Literacy and Etiquette: search engine usage - Google Scholar; social
media platforms - relevance and use; social media interaction; credibility and
fact- checking in cyberspace

References

Sinha, Pradeep K., and Priti Sinha. Computer fundamentals. BPB publications,
2010.
White, Ron, and Timothy Edward Downs. How computers work. Que, 1998.
Comer, Douglas E. The Internet book: everything you need to know about computer
networking and how the Internet works. Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2018.
Buyya, Rajkumar, Christian Vecchiola, and S. Thamarai Selvi. Mastering cloud
computing: foundations and applications programming. Newnes, 2013.
Anthony T. Velte, “Cloud Computing: A Practical Approach”, Tata McGraw Hill, 2009.
Kukushkin, Alexander. Introduction to mobile network engineering: Gsm, 3g-wcdma, lte and
the road to 5g. John Wiley & Sons, 2018.
Lin, Yi-Bang, and Imrich Chlamtac. Wireless and mobile network architectures. John
Wiley & Sons, 2000.

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