Computing & Software Systems (CSS) 

TCSS 430 Class Page 

Instructor:

Don McLane

E-mail:

dmclane@u.washington.edu

Phone:

253-692-5812

Office:

Dougan 306

Office Hours:

To be announced

Text:

James F. Kurose & Keith W. Ross

DataComputer Networking, a Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet

Introduction. Overview of computer networks and network protocols. Protocol layering models. Circuit switching and packet switching. General protocol functions. Standards organizations. The Internet. Measuring network performance.

Network Applications and Service. World Wide Web and HTTP. File transfer and FTP. Electronic mail and SMTP. Name service and DNS.

Network Programming and Simulation. BSD sockets. Socket programming with TCP and UDP. Network simulation. Event-driven and time-driven simulation. Simulation components. Event queue data structures. Data collection.

Flow and Error Control. Error detection and recovery. Reliable communication. Sliding window algorithms.

Shared Medium Access. Multiple access protocols. ALOHA. CSMA. CSMA/CD. Local Area Networks. Ethernet. Token ring. MACA and 802.11.

Packet Switching and Routing. Virtual circuit switching. Datagram forwarding. Source-based routing. Distance vector algorithm. Link state routing. Hierarchical routing. VC switching. Label swapping.

Internetworking. TCP/IP. Address resolution. Subnetting. Classless routing. IPv6.

Multicast. Multicast addresses. Shortest path trees. Steiner trees. Multicast routing. Reverse path forwarding. DVMRP. Core-Based Trees. Protocol Independent Multicast.

Congestion Control. Causes of congestion. End-to-end and hop-by-hop congestion control algorithms. Adaptive retransmission. TCP variants.