| 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... |
| URL: | http://blackboard.unh.edu/ Enrolled students only, password required. Limited guest access available by clicking the Preview button on the login page. The course website is available only when the course is in session. |
| Credits: | 4/3 |
| Section: | 01 |
| CRN: | 30149/30150 |
| Semester: | Summer 2008 |
| Date/Time: | May 27 - June 19, 2008, MTWTh 6:10-9:00 pm, Kingsbury Hall, Rm. N113. There will be a take-home exam, due Monday, June 23, so students should not make plans for the days that immediately follow the last class. Electronic submission of the final exam is possible. |
| 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 (when the course is in session): MTWTh 5:30-6:10 pm and by appointment. |
| Prerequisite: | CS520 Assembly Language Programming and Machine Organization (CS620 Operating System Fundamentals recommended but not necessary) |
| Teaching method: | Lectures, homework projects, programming assignments, hands-on labs. |
| 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: | In-class, open-book, one-hour weekly exams (Mondays, June 2, 9, and 16). Take-home final assigned June 16, due Monday, June 23 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-, .... . |
| Text: | James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross: Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, Fourth Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2008. ISBN: 0-321-49770-8. |