Courses
FALL 2008 -- COMP 631: COMPUTER NETWORKS
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FB 008 |
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Tue & Thur, 2:00 - 3:15 pm *** Please let me know if this time clashes with other courses you'd like to take *** |
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By appointment |
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).
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.