2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog

CS 339 Networking & Data Communication

The study of 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 LANs, WANs, MANs, hardware, software, protocols, routing, circuit-switching and packet-switching networks, analog and digital systems, and compression and error handling are among those studied. Students use a simulation package to design and simulate networks. 

A prerequisite to CS 367

Credits

3

Prerequisite

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