This special topics course is an introduction to computer networking, introducing fundamental concepts and exploring concrete examples. The class will be guided by a top down study of the OSI and TCP/IP models of networking, from the application layer down to the physical layer. Students will be required to produce a number of networking applications including client/server applications and an implementation of a reliable transport protocol (TCP), as well as to work with CISCO routers.

Syllabus

Resources

Schedule (tentative)

Official Clock

Subversion - Eclipse PowerPoint Lecture

Source Code -- sockaddr_in

Computer Science Messageboards

Mid-Semester Evaluations

Tools

• Eclipse
• CDT -- C/C++ plugin for Eclipse
• Subclipse -- Subversion Eclipse plugin
• JRE -- Sun's Java Runtime Environment

PURE Lab