CS725/825 Computer Networks

Course Outline

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...
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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.