Faculty notice: this unit is changing
Final offering S1 2027
BSE
Replace with FIT4043 from 2028 (S1)
From: Re-enrolment and unit changes - Information Technology (undergraduate) · Last checked: 7 Oct 2026 UTC
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Units / FIT4165
FIT4165 · Computer networks
2027 Handbook6 credit pointsLevel 4Faculty of Information Technology
Overview
The unit introduces computer networks with an explicit software and system-centric focus. It provides skills in data communications, networks, and associated software interfaces, and introduces principles in network design, configuration, management and security.
Areas of study: Software engineering
Offerings
| Campus | Teaching period | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Clayton | First semester | Flexible (FLEXIBLE) |
| Malaysia | First semester | Teaching activities are on-campus (ON-CAMPUS) |
Assessment
The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.
| # | Assessment | Type | Weight | Hurdle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laboratory Exercises | Demonstration | 20% | — |
| 2 | Applied sessions Exercises | Exercise | 20% | — |
| 3 | Applied Problem Solving Tasks | Quiz / Test | 60% | — |
Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.
Requisites
prerequisite
prohibition
Learning outcomes
- Analyse critically the network architecture standards for open systems;
- Analyse critically and apply the ISO reference and Internet models;
- Implement programs using internetworking concepts, IP addressing, IPC and socket-level interface;
- Analyse critically the fundamentals and technologies of cabled and wireless physical layer;
- Analyse critically the fundamentals and technologies of cabled and wireless data-link layer;
- Analyse critically and implement the fundamentals and technologies of the network layer, including packet-switching and queueing concepts;
- Analyse critically and implement designs based on the functions and architectures of cabled and wireless LAN and WAN, including ALOHA and CSMA/CD/CA models;
- Implement and evaluate system level designs based on LAN architecture for organisational requirements.
Workload
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled online and face to face learning activities and independent study. Independent study may include associated reading and preparation for scheduled teaching activities.
| Activity | Duration |
|---|---|
| Workshops | 24 hours |
| Applied sessions | 12 hours |
| Laboratories | 18 hours |
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