CSCI 4760
Instructor: Dr. Leonidas Deligiannidis
Email: ldeligia AT cs.uga.edu
WWW: http://www.cs.uga.edu/~ldeligia
Office: 422 GSRC
Office Tel: 706-542-3478
| Final: | 30% |
| Exam1: | 15% |
| Exam2: | 15% |
| Assignments: | 40% |
Book Information
Computer Networks, Fourth Edition (2003)
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
ISBN: 0-13-066102-3
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
The course introduces the underlying concepts and principles of computer networks.
It presents the different components of a network and how these components fit together.
It emphasizes the design and implementation of network software that transforms raw hardware
into a richly functional communication system.
Real networks such as:
- the Internet
- ATM
- Ethernet
- Token Ring
will be used as examples to reinforce the concepts and demonstrate various protocols.
The course also covers applications such as electronic mail and the World Wide Web.
Topics include introduction to communications connectivity and standards; layered architectures:
ISO/OSI and TCP/IP reference models; data transmission, synchronization, and multiplexing;
error handling, link control, and protocol operation; local area networks; network interconnection;
high-speed networks; wide area networks; internetworking; transport layer services;
higher layers and applications.
Students are required to know how to:
- read/understand/write programs in C and Java
- compile and execute programs in UNIX.
- access the Internet
Class Schedule
- Overview and client-server programming
- Introduction to communications connectivity and standards;
Layered architectures, ISO/OSI and TCP/IP reference models.
- Data transmission and encoding.
- Error handling, link control, and protocol operation.
- Local area networks.
- Network interconnection.
- Wide area networks. Internetworking.
- Transport protocols.
- Applications.
- Network Architecture
- Building Networks; Security, Efficiency, Redundancy (network and server)
- Hardware Devices and how they fit together:
- Switches
- Bridges
- Firewalls
- Routers
- Load Balancers
- VPN Concentrators
- Other
- Other