Lecture 3 hours, 3 credits.
Prerequisites: CS 555 and CS576.
Understanding the design, implementation and performance of Network proto-
cols using the very popular TCP/IP protocol suite as a case study. The students
will have hands-on experience on low-level tools and will access and study the
source code of these protocols.
Topics includes: socket interface, ARP, RARP, ICMP.
IP processing and routing, UDP, multicasting and IGMP,
TCP specification, implementaion and performance.