Course description
The aim of this course is to provide the students with an understanding of networks in a modern military electronic sensor or communications system, their vulnerabilities and how they can be protected.
Upcoming start dates
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Outcome / Qualification etc.
What you will learn
On successful completion of the module you will be able to:
- recognise how a network may be exploited in a military context to support information age operations and to identify the benefits of such support,
- identify the various components of a network and its architecture, defining the protocols and address structure, such that network infrastructure solutions can be critically assessed,
- describe and explain the operation of a wireless LAN,
- identify the threats to a network and evaluate the responses and defence measures to counter these threats,
- propose a secure wireless network structure, evaluating the level of security that such a network can provide against likely threats,
- critically analyse trends and technological developments in networking.
Training Course Content
Core content
Fixed Network Infrastructure
- introduction to networks: switching methods; LANs and WANs; generic network vulnerabilities,
- network-enabled capability and network-centric warfare,
- network Infrastructure,
- introduction to network protocols,
- internet protocol (IP),
- transport protocols,
- network addressing: IPv4, DHCP and IPv7; NAT,
- routing and routing algorithms,
- network design: VPNs,
- network performance: delay, throughput, reliability, errors,
- integrated and differentiated services: multimedia services,
- voice-over-IP,
- network security,
- offensive information operations: computer network attack,
- defensive information operations: computer network defence.
Wireless networks (WLANs)
- infrastructure-based and infrastructureless WLANs,
- ad hoc networks, sensor networks, grids, routing in ad-hoc networks, mobility,
- larger scale radio networks, timeliness, resource reservation,
- wide-area networks, storage area networking (SAN),
- contemporary wireless networks: 802.11 (Wifi), 802.16 (WiMax), 802.15 (Bluetooth, Zigbee), 802.20 (MBWA),
- wireless security: threats, WEP, WPA, secure networks.
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