TELECOMMUNICATION DIVISION ELECTRIC-ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING FACULTY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGIES HCMC

CS 438 COMMUNICATION NETWORKS FOR COMPUTERS

Projects 1:

Network design

Project description: The project can be achieved by a group of at most 4 persons. Each person plays a different role in the project. Four roles are required by the project: a leader, a designer, an implementer and a criticizer/evaluator. The leader manages the projects progress, holds meetings, solves conflicts and guarantees the projects success at all cost. The designer proposes the concept and the design of the network satisfying the requirements. The implementer cables the network and configures equipments. The criticizer proposes the requirements according to the standards, policies of stability, security. The criticizer verifies if the network satisfies the requirements. This is a competitive project so each group keeps their own design and submits the final documents independently. Each week, a group has to submit a report to show what and how they make progress. The design must satisfy the requirements as following: Security requirements: o For each branch, PCs of a department must be separated from the PCs of other departments. Note that the PCs of a department can be plugged to different switches. Connection requirements:

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o Suppose that a company has domain mycom.com and buy the ip address range 11.145.1.0/25 for the branch 1, and 11.145.1.128/25 for the branch 2. The company has three department, and two buildings A1 and A2 at each branch at the branch 1: Marketing: with 4PC named as diamond1, ruby1, marble1, pearl1 Finance: with 3PC named as gold1, silver1, bronze1 Human resource: with 3PC named as man1, woman1, child1 and a subdivision healthcare with 2PC named as heart1 and arm1. At the branch 2: the company has the same departments and the same number of computers in each department. However, they are named with the number 2, for example, at the marketing department, there are 4 PCs named as diamond2, ruby2, marble2, pearl2. The location of the PCs are shown in the table below:

PC A1

Building A2 Marketing

Department Finance Human Resource

diamond, ruby marble, pearl

x x

x x

Gold silver, bronze man, woman, child

x x x

x x x

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heart, arm

o PCs, routers, switches must be assigned IP addresses correctly. o The PCs in any branch can reach the web server www.mycom.com at the branch 1. o Each branch connects to the ISP through two routers as shown in the file project1.pkt. Robustness: o The network must be robust enough so that equipment or a link down does not cause a great impact on the operation of the whole network.

Knowledge prerequisites: The students must master the knowledge related to sections below Switching Design: Spanning Tree Protocol, Virtual LANs, Multilayer Switching, Switching Security IPv4 Routing Design: IPv4 Address Design, IPv4 Routing Protocols, IPv4 Routing Protocol Selection Network Security Design: spanning tree protection, CAM protection, VLAN design

Equipments: The students use the given software Packet Tracer to design networks. Several types of the available equipments as switch 2950, 2960, multilayer switch 3560, router 2801, 2811, 2821, end host, hub. The students can branch equipments with a large variety of cables. The simulation software also allows students to simulate some kinds of server such as web server. The ISP is represented by a cluster as shown in the figure 1:

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Figure 1: The topology of the enterprise network Evaluation: The project consists of oral presentation, simulation, and a written report. Each of these components of the project will accounts for 5% of the final mark. At the end of week, you have to submit the weekly report which shows the information as follows: The work the group has achieved during the week Contribution of each member Problems, difficulties to overcome How the TA helps you to overcome the problems, difficulties

Deadline: The final project must be submitted before 9:00am June 7th 2012

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