| Topics: | Introduction to local, metropolitan, and wide area networks. Introduction to the Internet protocol suite and to network tools and programming. Discussion of various networking technologies. More... |
| URL: | http://myunh.unh.edu/ |
| Credits: | 4/3 |
| Section: | 01 |
| Semester: | Fall 2008 |
| Date/Time: | MWF 10:10 am - 11:00 am, Kingsbury N328 |
| Instructor: | Radim Bartos Office: Kingsbury N215B, rbartos AT cs.unh.edu, http://www.cs.unh.edu/~rbartos, Phone: (603) 862-3792, Fax (603) 862-3493. Office hours (Fall 2008): MWF 11:00 am - noon and by appointment. |
| Prerequisite: | CS620 Operating System Fundamentals |
| Teaching method: | Lectures, homeworks, programming projects, experiments with networks and networking equipment. |
| Homeworks: | Problems from the textbook and programming projects. Homeworks are due at the beginning of a class. There will be 20% penalty for late submission (up to a week, parts of a week count as a full week). Electronic submissions in proprietary file formats, such as MS Word, will not be accepted. For more on this subject see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html. |
| Exams: | Two in-class exams (around mid October and mid November) and a final (10:30 am - 12:30 pm, Tuesday, December 16, 2008). All exams are open-book, open-notes. |
| Grading: | 40% assignments, 30% in-class exams, 30% final exam. Grading scale: 95% and above: A, 90% and above: A-, 87% and above: B+, 83% and above: B, 80% and above: B-, 77% and above: C+, 73% and above: C, 70% and above: C-, etc. Students with with a documented disability must register with the UNH Disability Services. More... |
| Text: | James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross: Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, Fourth Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2008. ISBN: 0-321-49770-8. |