EECE 456: Computer Communications
- Course Description and Topics: Analysis and design of computer networks.
Understanding layered architecture of Internet. Protocol layers and their service
models. Principles of network applications and application protocols such
as HTTP, FTP, and SMTP. Understanding peer-to-peer applications. Network
socket programming using Java. Understanding principles of transport layer
services and transport-layer protocols such as TCP and UDP. Flow and
congestion control. Understanding network layer services. Forwarding and
routing. Virtual-circuit networks. Datagram networks. Internet protocol.
Broadcast and multicast routing. Introduction to link-layer and its
services. Simple error-detection and error-correction techniques.
Link-layer addressing. Simple multiple-access protocols. Local area
networks.
- Prerequisites: One of STAT 251, MATH 318 and one of EECE 359,
EECE 369; and one of EECE 259, EECE 315, EECE 202, EECE 203.
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Last Update: September 2010