Instructor:

Name: Hussein M. Abdel-Wahab, Ph.D.
Office : 249-4 Education Building
Phone : (757) 683-4512
Office Hrs: T 10am-12 & W 3:30-5pm or contact me for an appointment.
Electronic Mail: wahab@cs.odu.edu or wahab@cs.unc.edu

Text book:

UNIX Network Programming: Netwoking APIs: Volume 1,Second Edition,
By W. Richard Stevens, Prentice Hall, 1998 (ISBN 0-13-490012-X.

Source Code

Compiled Code is under: /home/cs779/stevens2nd.book/unpv12e

Topics:

• Introduction to TCP and UDP
• Elementry TCP Sockets
• I/O multiplexing using select
• Socket Options
• Elementary UDP Sockets
• Name and Address Conversions
• Introduction to IPv6
• Daemon Processes and Superserver
• Unix Domain Propotocols
• Threads and Server Design
• Client-Server Design Alternatives
• Nonblocking I/O
• Multicasting
• Advanced UDP Sockets
• Out-of-Band Data
• Signal-Driven I/O
• IPv4 and IPv6 interoperability
• IP Options
• Raw Sockets Applications: Ping and Traceroute

Lectures

Grade distribution:

• Midterm Exam: 25%
• Final Exam: 25%
• Assignments: 30%
• Course Project: 20%

Previous Years:

• Spring 1999
• Spring 1998
• Spring 1997