COIT12206 - TCP/IP Principles and Protocols

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit provides you with an in-depth understanding of the role and function of TCP/IP protocols in contemporary network communication. The unit details the underlying technologies and relationships between the five network layers. You will gain an understanding of how data is encapsulated, addressed, and routed over networks. On completion of the unit, you will be able to explain the mechanisms used to facilitate communication between applications over the internet.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 2
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Prerequisite: COIT11233 - Information and Communication Technology Foundations or COIT11238 - Networked Infrastructure Foundations

Note: Students who are currently enrolled in or who have previously completed COIT13147 - Networks cannot enrol in this unit.

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

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This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 88.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 17.48% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Staff Feedback
Feedback
The teaching material should be updated to eliminate outdated technologies.
Recommendation
The lecture slides should be revised to eliminate outdated information and integrate the most up-to-date networking technologies. For example, outdated network technologies like "Cable Modem," "T Line," and "SONET" should be removed, while contemporary technologies such as "Switched WAN," "Ethernet Over WAN," and "SD-WAN" should be introduced.
Action Taken
Outdated technologies have either been removed or noted as legacy while greater emphasis has been placed on current technologies, such as Gigabit Ethernet, in this lecture.
Source: Staff Feedback
Feedback
Too many PowerPoint slides in some of the lectures.
Recommendation
Condense lecture slides to approximately 50 slides for Weeks 4, 5, 10, and 11.
Action Taken
Each week's content now contains fewer than 50 slides, and the slides provided to students are more closely aligned with those used in the lectures
Source: Teaching staff.
Feedback
Some lectures are not followed up with a relevant lab exercise.
Recommendation
Align tutorial/lab sessions with weekly lecture topics.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Teaching staff, students.
Feedback
The marking rubric and instructions for the e-Portfolio assignment contained elements not covered in the unit, such as project management or teamwork.
Recommendation
Re-write the instructions and marking rubrics and spreadsheet to make required outputs explicit and specific to the requirements and outputs of this unit.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes
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