WA Computer Science ATAR Year 11: Network basics, communication models and data transmission
Students learn what networks are, how client-server and peer-to-peer models work, and how data is carried over wired and wireless media in different transmission modes.
One content description from the full WA Computer Science ATAR Year 11 — Network Communications journey. All 23 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (23)
1
Computer network
2
Client and server
3
Peer-to-peer and client-server communication models
4
LAN and WAN
5
Internet vs World Wide Web
6
Network protocols
7
Wired transmission
8
Ethernet cable
9
Fibre optic cable
10
Signal weakening over distance in cables
11
Wireless transmission
12
Wi-Fi
13
Wi-Fi range and interference
14
Bandwidth and network speed
15
Latency
16
Serial transmission
17
Parallel transmission
18
Data skew in parallel transmission
19
Comparing serial and parallel transmission
20
Simplex data transmission
21
Half-duplex data transmission
22
Full-duplex data transmission
23
Choosing a transmission method for a scenario
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