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Block II: Internet Technologies

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 & 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

Reference

● 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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