Brief Course Description
This
course introduces basic elements of modern computer and
telecommunication networks. A hybrid five-layer reference model
resembling the popular TCP/IP model will be discussed. In each layer,
the state-of-the-art hardware and software technologies are introduced.
These include, for example, Fiber-optic and Mobile/Cellular
communications in the Physical Layer; Wavelength/Time Division Multiple
Access Protocols in the Data Link Layer; Unicast and Multicast
protocols in the Network Layer; TCP/UDP and ATM Adaptation Layer
Protocols in the Transport Layer; and Network Security in the
Application Layer. |
Prerequisites
basic
C programming in the Unix environment, elementary probability,
statistics, computer architecture, basic knowledge on the Unix
operating system (processes, file IO), elementary data structures and
algorithms (stacks, queues)
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Teaching staff and related info
- Instructor
- Hung Q. Ngo ( hungngo [at] cse )
- Office
Hours: Mon, Wed, 10-11am
- Teaching assistants
- Mr. Xin Liu ( xliu8 [at] cse ).
- Office hours:
1-3pm on Thursdays
- Mr. Seokhoon Yoon ( skyoonub [at] gmail ).
- Office hours:
10-11am on Tuesdays
and 11-12 on Fridays
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Required Textbook
James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross, Computer
Networking: A Top-Down
Approach, 4/e, ISBN: 0-321-49770-8, Pearson Addison-Wesley. |
Reference
books: it
would be very helpful for the programming assignments if you have
Stevens' "Unix Network Programming".
- W.
Richard Stevens, "UNIX
Network Programming : Networking
APIs : Sockets and XTI : Volume 1, Second Edition ",
Prentice Hall, Oct 1997, ISBN: 013490012X.
- W.
Richard Stevens, "Advanced
Programming in the UNIX Evironment," Addison-Wesley, 1992,
ISBN 0-201-56317-7.
- Larry L. Peterson and Bruce S. Davie, Computer Networks: A Systems Approach,
4th edition, The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking.
- Andrew
Tanenbaum, Computer Networks
Prentice Hall PTR; 4 edition (August 9, 2002), 912pp.
- Douglas E. Comer, "Internetworking
with TCP/IP, Volume 1: Principles, Protocols, and Architectures, Fourth
Edition 4TH ",
Prentice Hall, Feb 2000, ISBN: 0130183806
- Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu, "
DNS and BIND " ,
O'Reilly & Associates, May 2001
- Simson Garfinkel and Gene Spafford, "
Practical UNIX and Internet Security ", O'Reilly &
Associates, October 1995
- Leonard
Kleinrock, "
Queueing Systems: Theory, Vol. 1 ", Wiley, John &
Sons, January 1975
- Leonard
Kleinrock (Editor) "
Queueing Systems Volume 2: Computer Applications ", Wiley,
John & Sons, April 1976
- W.
Richard Stevens and
Gary R. Wright, "The TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume
1: The Protocols", Addison Wesley Longman, Dec
1993, ISBN: 0201633469
- W.
Richard Stevens and
Gary R. Wright, "The TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume
2: The Implementation", Addison Wesley Longman, Jan
1995, ISBN: 020163354X
- Morris H. DeGroot, Mark J. Schervish, "Probability
and Statistics", Addison Wesley; 3 edition (October 10,
2001), 816pp.
- Rick Durrett, "Essentials of stochastic
processes", Springer; 1 edition (July 30, 1999), 281pp.
- Ronald W. Wolff, "Stochastic modeling and
the theory of queues", Prentice Hall (January 31, 1989), 560pp
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