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Computer Networks – Introduction Outline: General course information. What are computer networks. Network architecture (Internet and OSI). Socket programming. 2008-09-03 CSC 257/457 - Fall 2008 1 General Course Information Course Web page /~bukys/csc257-fall2008 Course email address cs257@ Text and reference books Kurose and Ross, “Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet”, 4th edition, 2007. Peterson and Davie, “Computer Networks: A Systems Approach”, 4th edition, 2007. Network programming in C: Stevens, “Unix Network Programming, Volume I”, 2nd edition, 1998. Learn to use UNIX manual pages 2008-09-03 CSC 257/457 - Fall 2008 2 What we will learn? Principles basic engineering principles, design algorithms behind building blocks of computer networks why you’d select one technique over another Practices how things are done in practice: in the case of Internet: the Web, p2p overlay, etc. historical examples of protocols and implementations that were tried but are not so common any more 2008-09-03 CSC 257/457 - Fall 2008 3 Course Outline Traditional materials about computer networks Data links: Ethernet etc. Network: IP addressing and routing. Transport: TCP/UDP. Application: HTTP, FTP, SMTP, and DNS. Advanced topics in computer networks Multimedia networking (quality of service), computer security, wireless networks, overlay networks. Case studies of emerging network systems/technologies HTTP load balancing. Network caching. Content distribution (Akamai). Peer-to-peer systems (Gnutella/BitTorrent). 2008-09-03 CSC 257/4