NMEICT ISTE COORDINATORS WORKSHOP ON ‘COMPUTER NETWORKING’

A one week ISTE workshop on ‘Computer Networking’ was organized at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay under the National Mission on Education through ICT during 5th -  9thMay, 2014. Mr. Manoj Kumar Yadav, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering was nominated to attend the workshop as a Workshop Coordinator from Dronacharya Group of Institutions, Greater Noida. 258 faculty members from different institutions participated in this coveted workshop.

The workshop was inaugurated on 5th May, 2014 by Project Coordinator, Prof. Deepak B. Phatak from the Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. In his inaugural speech he explained the mission and objectives of the workshop. Prof. Kameswary Chebrolu, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of  Technology Bombay, gave an overview of the workshop which was followed by Lab sessions intended to get the participants acquainted with some commonly used networking commands and TCP/IP diagnostic tools. The participants were able to understand the concept of layering/encapsulation by looking at Link, IP and TCP headers. Further experiments helped them understand the concept of multiplexing using Ethernet "frame type" field, IP "protocol field" and Transport "port number" field.

On the second day of the workshop, Prof. Chebrolu started the first technical session with the introduction of “flipping the classroom experience”. She explained the merits and demerits of flipping class paradigm. The session was followed by Lab session-II with the objective of exploring some more demultiplexing and to understand the operation of ARP (Address Resolution Protocol).

The third day was dedicated exclusively for Lab sessions. The lab session-III was organized in the morning with the objective of understanding the operation of various mechanisms/protocols that operate at network layer including IP fragmentation, DHCP and ICMP. During the post lunch session, the participants underwent lab session-IV  with the objective to get familiarized with NS2 simulator and to understand popular performance metrics like throughput and loss.