Basic principles of computer communications. Introduction to performance evaluation of protocols. Protocols covered include those for local,metropolitan, and wide area networks. Introduction to routing, high speed packet switching, circuit switching, and optical data transport. Other topics include TCP/IP, Internet, web server design, network security, and grid computing. Not for credit in addition to CSE/ISE 310.

This course is offered as both CSE 346 and ESE 346.

• Networks and Grids: Technology and Theory, 1st ed. by Thomas Robertazzi, 2007. Publisher: Springer.
• Computer Networks (5th Edition), by Andrew S Tanenbaum, David J. Wetherall,2011 Prentice Hall, ISBN-10: 0132126958

• Week 1: Introduction to network topology and transport media.
• Week 2: Networks Performance Evaluation - Probability review
• Week 3: Networks Performance Evaluation - Network models
• Week 4: Error Correcting Codes
• Week 5: Local Area Networks technologies - Ethernet LAN, 40/100GB Ethernet
• Week 6: Local Area Networks technologies - Wireless LAN, Bluetooth
• Week 7: Asynchronous Transfer Mode networks
• Week 8: Optical Networks - SONET, WDM
• Week 9: Internet protocols -UDP , TCP/IP
• Week 10: Internet protocols - Domain Name System, The Word Wide Web, The HyperText Transfer Protocol
• Week 11: Introduction to the GRID technology
• Week 12: Network Security - Introduction to Cryptography, Advanced Encryption Standard, Public-Key Algorithms
• Week 13: network Security - secure Socket Layer, Computer Networks and Society
• Week 14: Final Week

• 2 to 3 programming projects in spring, 1 major project in summer, on topics such as performance evaluation, routing algorithms and error correcting/detecting codes.

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