CS 779/879 - Design of Network Protocols

Spring 1999

Instructor:

Name: Hussein M. Abdel-Wahab, Ph.D.
Office : 249-4 Education Building
Phone : 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: Sockets and XTI, 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

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