| Effective Term: | 2024/05 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Innovation, Science & Sustainability |
| Unit Title: | Network Architecture and Design |
| Unit ID: | ITECH2301 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | (ITECH1102) |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | Nil |
| ASCED: | 020113 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit will provide students with an understanding of the network technologies and protocols for distributed computing environments and equip them with skills necessary for computer network design. The unit covers computer communications and networking incorporating Local Area Networks (LANs), Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) and Wide Area Networks (WANs) together with the underlying network protocols that form the backbone of todays Internet. It also covers the Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of different types of applications and how network protocols handle QoS issues. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: No |
| Supplementary Assessment:Yes |
| Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | | | | | | | Intermediate | | |  | | | | | Advanced | | | | | | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Illustrate the network architecture for open systems interconnection. |
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| K2. | Present the operation of the TCP/IP architecture and software defined network architecture. |
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| K3. | Explain the technologies and protocols of network and transport layers. |
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| K4. | Examine the technologies and architecture of LANs, Wireless LANs and WANs. |
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| K5. | Determine the principles of LAN design and software defined WAN. |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Analyse data communication and networking technologies in today's Internet. |
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| S2. | Analyse the Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of applications and identify protocols supporting them. |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Analyse and design LAN architecture and software defined WAN for organisational requirements. |
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| A2. | Apply the knowledge acquired in this unit to improve networking performance of an organisation. |
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| Unit Content: |
•Introduction to the Open System Interconnection (OSI) reference model and TCP/IP protocol architecture;
•Local Area Network overview - topologies, components and Ethernet architecture;
•Wireless LAN operation and standards;
•LAN design issues and practical considerations;
•Network layer protocols - IP operation and internetworking;
•Transport layer protocols - process to process delivery, UDP and TCP;
•QoS requirements for applications - resource reservation protocols and differentiated services in IP.
•Software Defined Network (SDN) architecture - netorking planes, SDN environments and ecosystems and OpenFlow.
•Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) - Architecture, solutions, SD-WAN cloud and AI-driven SD-WAN. |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FEDTASKS (Transferable Attributes Skills and Knowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are be embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and Co-operative Learning opportunities. One or more FEDTASK, transferable Attributes, Skills or Knowledge must be evident in the specified learning outcomes and assessment for each FedUni Unit, and all must be directly assessed in each Course.
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| FED TASK and descriptor | Development and acquisition of FEDTASKS in the Unit | | Level | FEDTASK 1
Interpersonal | Students will demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate, inter-act and work with others both individually and in groups. Students will be required to display skills in-person and/or online in: • Using effective verbal and non-verbal communication • Listening for meaning and influencing via active listening • Showing empathy for others • Negotiating and demonstrating conflict resolution skills • Working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams. | N/A - Not Applicable | FEDTASK 2
Leadership | Students will demonstrate the ability to apply professional skills and behaviours in leading others. Students will be required to display skills in: • Creating a collegial environment • Showing self -awareness and the ability to self-reflect • Inspiring and convincing others • Making informed decisions • Displaying initiative | N/A - Not Applicable | FEDTASK 3
Critical Thinking and Creativity | Students will demonstrate an ability to work in complexity and ambiguity using the imagination to create new ideas. Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically • Evaluating ideas, concepts and information • Considering alternative perspectives to refine ideas • Challenging conventional thinking to clarify concepts • Forming creative solutions in problem solving. | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines | FEDTASK 4
Digital Literacy | Students will demonstrate the ability to work fluently across a range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks. Students will be required to display skills in: • Finding, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and sharing digital information • Collating, managing, accessing and using digital data securely • Receiving and responding to messages in a range of digital media • Contributing actively to digital teams and working groups • Participating in and benefiting from digital learning opportunities. | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines | FEDTASK 5
Sustainable and Ethical Mindset | Students will demonstrate the ability to consider and assess the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting ethical and sustainable decisions. Students will be required to display skills in: • Making informed judgments that consider the impact of devising solutions in global economic environmental and societal contexts • Committing to social responsibility as a professional and a citizen • Evaluating ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable challenges and generating and articulating responses • Embracing lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to diverse others • Implementing required actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life. | N/A - Not Applicable |
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| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K1, K2, K3, K4, K5, S1, S2 | Engage with tutorial and laboratory exercises to scaffold assignment work. | Demonstration of completion | 5 - 10% | | 2. | A1, A2 | Conduct analysis and propose solutions to business problems using networking technologies. Design Local Area Networks (LAN)/Software Defined WAN architectures.. | Assignments | 50 - 70% | | 3. | K1, K2, K3, K4, S2, A2 | Assessment tasks will test students' understanding and knowledge of the fundamental of networking, industry standards and best practice. | Examination / Tests | 20 - 30% |
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Professional Standards / Competencies: |
| | Standard / Competency | | 1. | Australian Computer Society - Core Body of Knowledge: 2023 accreditation |
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| Attribute | Assessed | Level | | Core ICT Knowledge | |
ICT Fundamentals
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Design thinking: methods and tools that are used for handling abstraction could vary a great deal with the branch of ICT, from circuit diagrams to data modelling tools to business process modelling
| | Yes | Intermediate | | |
Systems thinking: components and interactions between them, structure and function, emergent properties and functions, systems layers
| | Yes | Intermediate | |
ICT Infrastructure
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Network and internetwork concepts and protocols, wireless and mobile computing, cloud and distributed systems
| | Yes | Advanced | |
Cyber Security
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Nature of Cyber Security: forms of attack, prevention, detection, mitigation and repair
| | No | Introductory | | Professionalism as it applied in ICT | |
Working Individually and in ICT development teams
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Working effectively within an organisational context
| | Yes | Intermediate |
| | 2. | Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA): Version 8 |
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| Attribute | Assessed | Level | | Strategy and architecture | | Strategy and planning | | | ITSP Strategic planning (Levels 5 - 7) Creating and maintaining a strategy to align organisational actions, plans and resources with business objectives. | | Yes | 2 | | Development and implementation | | Systems development | | | NTDS Network design (Levels 3 - 6) Designing communication networks to support strategic and operational requirements and producing network strategies, architectures, policies and related documentation. | | Yes | 2 | | | SINT Systems integration and build (Levels 2 - 6) Planning, implementing and controlling activities to synthesise system components to create operational systems, products or services. | | Yes | 2 |
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