Overview

Included in degrees & certificates

• 295

Prerequisites

• CS2011
• CS3030
• EC2700

Learning Outcomes

Upon successfully completing the course, the student will be able to perform these tasks.

• Explain functionality of major networking hardware components of an enterprise network, including switches and routers, and how they interconnect.
• Elucidate the role and operation of common Internet protocols, including Ethernet, VLAN, IP, IPv6, DHCP, ARP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, SMTP, HTTP, FTP, DNS and NAT
• Demonstrate understanding of broad classes of network traffic (transactional/interactive, bulk transfer, streaming) and their characteristics
• Explain the Internet structure at autonomous system and router levels, and its major building blocks, including points of presence, Internet exchange points, and content distribution networks.
• Explain the difference between circuit switching, packet switching, and message switching.
• Explain the difference between packet forwarding and routing.
• Explain functionality of inter and intra-domain routing protocols, including RIP, OSPF, and BGP
• Compute transmission delay and propagation delay of a communication link and describe the relationship between traffic intensity and queueing delay at a shared link.
• Measure and explain major factors for end-to-end packet latency, packet loss rate, and application throughput.
• Use timing diagrams to model and analyze protocol behavior.
• Capture and analyze packet traces using tools such as Wireshark.
• Troubleshoot basic networking connectivity using tools such as ping and traceroute.
• Write basic client server or peer-to-peer applications that use TCP or UDP.
• Elucidate the key design rationales behind emerging technologies such as data center networks and software defined networks.