| Catalog description | 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... |
| Piazza | This course will be using Piazza (http://piazza.com/unh/summer2013/cs725825it725) for class discussion. The system is designed getting you help fast and efficiently from classmates, the TA, and the instructor. Rather than emailing questions to the teaching staff, you are encouraged you to post your questions on Piazza. If you have any problems or feedback for the developers, email team@piazza.com. |
| Credits | 4 (CS 725 and IT 725), 3 (CS 825) |
| Section | 01 |
| Semester | Summer 2013 |
| Dates/Time | Monday, May 20 - Thursday, June 13, 2013, the course meets MTWTh 6:10-9:00 pm in Kingsbury Hall, Rm. N233. There will be a take-home exam, due Monday, June 17, so students should not make plans for the days that immediately follow the last class. Electronic submission of the final exam is encouraged. |
| Instructor | Radim Bartos Office: Kingsbury N229, rbartos AT cs.unh.edu, http://www.cs.unh.edu/~rbartos Phone: +1 (603) 862-3792 Office hours (when the course is in session): MTWTh 5:30-6:10 pm and by appointment |
| Prerequisite | CS620 Operating System Fundamentals, IT 520 Computer Architecture, or equivalent experience |
| Teaching method | Lectures, homework projects, programming assignments, experiments with networks and networking equipment hands-on labs. |
| Assignments | Problems from the textbook and programming projects. Assignments 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). |
| Exams | In-class, open-book, one-hour weekly exams (Tuesday, May 28, and Mondays, June 3, and 10). Take-home final assigned June 13, due Monday, June 17 at 4:30 pm. |
| Grading | 40% assignments, 30% weekly 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 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, Sixth Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2013, ISBN 0-132-85620-4. The fifth (ISBN 0-136-07967-9) and fourth (ISBN 0-321-49770-8) editions are also permissible. |