2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog

CS 339 Networking and Data Communication

Students study networks and data communication concentrating on the Internet model. This is a laboratory-based course that includes projects implemented on both Unix and Windows machines. Topics such as the Internet protocol stack,  hardware, routing, circuit-switching and packet-switching networks, multiplexing, error handling and wifi are among those studied. Students use packet sniffing tools to design and simulate networks


Credits

3

Prerequisite

CS 338 Systems Analysis and Design or CS 341 Analysis of Algorithms and senior standing