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General information

Subject type: Optional

Coordinator: Joan Triadó Aymerich

Trimester: First term

Credits: 4

Teaching staff: 

Toni Sánchez Rifà

Academic year: 2025

Teaching course: 4

Languages ​​of instruction

  • Catalan

The documentation of the subject will be mostly in Catalan and English. Therefore, the student must be able to read English correctly.

Competencies / Learning Outcomes

Specific skills

  • K3. Identify programming languages, operating systems, databases and computer programs that are applied to engineering.

  • K11. Identify the fundamentals and components of electronics that are applied in the general operation of electronic circuits.

  • S3. Use programming languages, databases and computer programs for applications in engineering.

  • C7. Write texts with a structure appropriate to the communication objectives.

  • C11. Operate appropriately to understand and produce a text in written, oral or audiovisual form and interpret and understand the plurilingual, multilingual and intercultural relationship of their immediate reality.

  • C21. Contribute to developing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teams, recognizing and respecting different visions and areas of knowledge, integrating them towards a common established goal.

  • C30. Evaluate inequalities based on sex and gender to design effective solutions applied to their professional field and/or sphere of influence.

Presentation of the subject

Optional subject framed in the block of the mention in Intelligent Manufacturing in Industry 4.0, with an eminently real-life approach and which allows you to enter the world of digital communications and cyber security, both in terms of communications themselves, as well as information systems in general and the own information management.

The course is divided into three blocks:

  • In the first part, the student is introduced to the world of communications. The basic components of a communications system, its mission and its implementation are presented. Emphasis is placed on IP systems, and specifically on the TCP/IP communication stack. Some of the usual services are analyzed (mail, web, DNS, DHCP, ...), analyzing the mechanisms and protocols for managing networks and the design of corporate solutions.) and ends with a practice that opens the debate on the different ways of implementing communications systems.
  • In a second part, communications and cyber security issues that are on the agenda will be discussed and their effects will be analyzed:
    • 5G communications and their applications
    • blockchain
    • how it affects digital transformation
    • artificial intelligence
    • real cases of cyber attacks and implementation of contingency plans
    • ...
  • During the first 2 parts of the course, 2/3 talks will be given by prestigious professionals who will help ground the theoretical concepts to put them into practice
  • Finally, in the third part of the course, the students will make proposals for topics to be discussed related to the scope of the subject that will end with a short synthesis work and its presentation in the classroom.

The classroom in which the subject is taught (physically or virtually) is a safe space, free of sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic and discriminatory attitudes, whether towards students or teachers. We trust that together we can create a safe space where we can make mistakes and learn without having to suffer prejudice from others. 

Contents

Content title 1:        IP networks

Description
  • Introduction to computer networks
  • Concepts of protocol and service
  • Protocol architecture: OSI and TCP / IP models
  • Internet Protocols
  • The IP protocol
  • IP addressing, subnetting
  • Other IP support protocols (ICMP, ARP, DHCP).
  • Internet routing
  • Static and dynamic routing

Related activities

Theoretical presentation (8h)

 

Content title 2:        The transport layer

Description
  • Introduction to Transport Layer Services
  • Multiplexed and demultiplexed
  • Offline transport: UDP
  • Principles of a reliable data transfer service
  • Connection-oriented transport: TCP
  • Establishment and release of TCP connection
  • TCP Congestion Control

Related activities

Theoretical presentation (8h)

 

Content title 3:        The link layer

Description
  • Switching networks
  • Circuit switching: Temporary behavior
  • Message switching: Temporal and semantic behavior
  • Packet switching: virtual circuit and datagram, routing
  • Delay and Loss in Packet Switching Networks
  • Flow and congestion control
  • Error Detection and Correction Techniques
  • Environmental Access Protocols: Multiple Access with Carrier Detection (CSMA) and Collision Detection (CSMA / CD).
  • Ethernet technology
  • Wireless communication protocols

Related activities

Theoretical presentation (6h)

 

Content title 4:        APPLICATION PROTOCOLS

Description
  • Basic protocols (DHCP, DNS)
  • Email protocols
  • WEB protocols
  • Protocols for real-time communications

Related activities

Theoretical presentation (8h)

 

Content title 5:        CORPORATE NETWORKS

Description
  • Communications protocols in corporate networks
  • Structured wiring
  • Trunk, horizontal, endpoint subsystem

Related activities

Theoretical presentation (6h)

 

Content title 6:        SECURITY PROTOCOLS

Description
  • Confidentiality
  • Integrity
  • Authentication
  • Introduction to Virtual Private Networks

Related activities

Theoretical presentation (4h)

Activities and evaluation system

In order to pass (pass) the assessment activities, students must demonstrate:

  • That they have acquired the theoretical knowledge related to the contents of the subject and that their understanding allows them to put them into practice [MECES-2 point a, point c]
  • That they can develop solutions to problems that, although they may be similar to others seen above, present aspects that are new [MECES-2 point f]

The weight of each of the activities in the final evaluation of the subject is indicated below.

  1. 30% Written Test
  2. Architecture practice 15%
  3. Assistance and control of chat sessions 15%
  4. Synthesis work 30%
  5. Participation and attendance in class 10%

All notes are mandatory. Theory exams can be retaken. In case of not being able to evaluate any of them, the subject will have to be retaken with a written test.

For the written tests, the average of the tests must have a minimum rating of 3,5. 

 

Bibliography

Basic

Technical documentation of the software used in the subject

Presentations and notes of the subject in Moodle.