CS643 Data Communications and Distributed Computing Architecture 
-- Spring 2008

Contents

• General information
• Course Materials
• Topic & Schedule
• Assignments
• Grading
• Communication
• Lecture notes (Ask the instructor for the UserID/Passwd)

General Information

Instructor:

Jiang B. Liu, jiangbo@bradley.edu

Professor of Computer Science & Information Systems

Phone: (309)6772386

Lecture Times:

4:30-5:45pm, Mon Wed, in Brd 150

Prerequisites:

CS120 Discrete Mathematics

CS519 Introduction to Operating Systems

MTH325 Probability and Statistics I

Office Hours:

3:00-4:30pm, Mon, Wed; 1:30-3:00pm Tue, Thur, BR177.

Or by appointment.

Course Materials

• Required
• Computer Networks, 4th Edition by Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Topics & Schedule

This is a computer network and data communication course for computer science graduate students. The goals of the course are to provide students with fundamentals of data communication, computer network architectures and to experience and implement the basic inter-computer communication via TCP/IP. The projects will be coded in C/C++/Java and tested in UNIX/Window and Internet environment, therefore I expect all of you have basic knowledge in C/C++/Java programming language and UNIX/Window operating system.

Unit 1  Introduction	Computer Networks Hardware & Software  Network Protocols  OSI and TCP/IP	Ch.1
Unit 2  The Physical Layer	Fundamentals of Data Communications  Transmission  Switches  ISDN and ATM	Ch. 2
Unit 3  The Data Link Layer	Framing  Error Detection and Correction  Data link protocols:       Stop-and-Wait       Go-back N       Selective Repeat	Ch. 3
Unit 4 LAN	Channel Allocations  Multiple Access Control  IEEE 802 LAN: Ethernet; Token Bus; and Token Ring  Logical Link Control	Ch. 4
Unit 5 TCP/IP Network Programming	TCP/IP sockets  Connectionless and connection-oriented services  Client/Server Computing	Lecture Notes  Ch. 1- 9
Unit 6  The Network Layer	Routing Algorithms  Internetworking	Ch. 5
Unit 7  The Transport Layer	Quality of Service (QOS)  Transport Protocols:      Establishing a Connection      Releasing a Connection	Ch. 6
Unit 8  The Application Layer &  Network Security	Network Security:       Symmetric & Public-key Encryption       Digital Signatures       Certification  Domain Name System (DNS)  Network Management: SNMP  E-mail; News; WWW; and Multimedia	Ch. 7, 8

Assignments

• Assignment 1: Network Topics
• Assignment 2: Network Simulation
• X-Win32: X-win32 6.0 for Windows

• Down load X-Win32 9.0: Down load X-win32 9.0 from StarNet

• Assignment 3: TCP/IP Network Programming
• Tcp: Socket Client/Server Programming Source Codes
• Udp: Socket Client/Server Programming Source Codes

• Makefile: Sample Makefile
• Review: Final examination review.

All assignments are due in the class on the due day.
Later homework will have 10% subtracted from the score for every late day.

Grading

- Assignments:            40%
- Class Attendance:    10%
- Mid Term Exam:      15%
- Final Exam:              35%
(90-100 A; 80-89 B; 70-79 C; 60-69 D; below 60 F)

Communication

This class home page is posted at "http://hilltop.bradley.edu/~jiangbo/" and will be used to post the assignments and other class information. You are also encouraged to send me email about your questions related to the course or share related information with the class.