COMP 631: Computer Networks

Overview

Schedule

Assignments

Projects

COMP 631: COMPUTER NETWORKS

Instructor:	Jasleen Kaur
Class room:	FB 008
Class Time:	Tue & Thur, 9:00 - 10:45 am
Office Hours:	By appointment
TA:	Yilin Wang (ylwang@cs.unc.edu)

Questions? Email the instructor.

IMPORTANT NOTE: THE FIRST CLASS WILL MEET ON THURSDAY (AUG 21) AT 2 PM IN FB008.
(THERE WILL BE NO CLASS ON TUESDAY, AUG 19).

Course Syllabus

Prerequisites: COMP 142, COMP 123 (preferred, but not a must).

Reference Material:

Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, Peterson and Davie (4th edition). Morgan Kaufmann.
Several papers from published literature.

This course will serve three main purposes:

First, it will review traditional and new topics in computer networks, including data link networks (Ethernet, Token Rings, 802.11), packet switching, routing, flow control, congestion control, naming, security, and applications (peer-to-peer infrastructures, content distibution networks).
Second, it will review/survey prominent recent research publications on current hot topics in networking.
Third, through projects and assignments, it will build in students basic skills (including familiarity with the ns simulator, conducting systematic experimentation, analysis of packet traces) that are needed for empirical networking research conducted in this department.

Who should take this course?

This course is intended to be a first-level graduate course in networks in the department. If your primary interest is in networking, this course will help build the background and skills needed for more advanced courses and research in networking. If networking is not your primary research area, this course will help expand your breadth of knowledge to networking.