Paul D. Paulson (contact info/office hours )

TAs

Office/lab hours in Dearborn 205

Pavithra Venkatraman    (email)

Vikram Iyer    (email)

Required:  Kurose & Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (4th edition), Addison-Wesley, 2008. ISBN 0321497708

Required:  WireShark "packet sniffer:, available free at http://www.wireshark.org

Recommended (and free):  Hall, Brian, Beej's Guide to Network Programming: Using Internet Sockets

On completion of the course, students will be able to:

1. describe the hardware devices used to create a network
2. give examples of networking technologies, and examine the associated standards
3. describe the essential features of a networking protocol
4. describe various congestion control, error detection, and error correction schemes
5. create a local area network and a model intranet by configuring networking hardware and software in a controlled laboratory environment
6. create low-level client-server application programs using the socket API
7. demonstrate (simulate) the processes of packet construction, packet switching, and packet deconstruction
8. apply a route discovery algorithm to determine the shortest path in an internet represented as a weighted graph
9. compare/contrast cable networking and wireless networking
10. use a variety of networking services, such as DNS, NAT and ARP
11. associate networking functions with the appropriate layers of the ISO/OSI networking layering model, and associate internetworking functions with the appropriate layers of the TCP/IP layering model
12. describe network security issues and some of the methods for managing those issues

• 5 labs/reports @ 2%
• 5 homeworks @ 1%
• 2 programming assignments @ 10%
• 2 quizzes @ 7.5%
• 2 midterm exams @ 15%
• Final exam  (Thursday, March 19, 2:00 pm)

Final grades are based on the accumulated percentage.  See the evaluation criteria and grading scale.  Quiz, exam, and final grades may be adjusted linearly if it seems appropriate.

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