Instructor
      •  Xin Yuan (xyuan@cs.fsu.edu)
      •  Office: Love 259
      •  Office hours: 
          – 1:00PM – 2:30PM, Monday & Wednesday
          – Or by appointments (email xyuan@cs.fsu.edu)
      •  Class website
          – Use blackboard
          – http://campus.fsu.edu
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                           Teaching Assistant
        •  TA: Mehran Sadeghi Lahijani
        •  Email: sadeghil@cs.fsu.edu
        •  Office: TBA
        •  Office hour: TBA
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              What is this class about?
     •  General purpose computer networks (Internet)
        –  Not specialized networks (e.g., telephone or cable TV)
     •  Fundamental principles
        –  Not survey of existing protocol standards
     •  Focus on network software architecture
        –  Only discuss some relevant network hardware
     •  Designing, evaluating, building network systems
        –  Not queuing theory
        –  CIS5930 Modeling and Performance Analysis
     •  After taking this class, you should be able to
        –  Describe the overall Internet architecture
        –  Describe the design issues in each layer of the architecture
        –  Describe, analyze, apply, and code the key techniques and 
           protocols in each layer
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                              Course Prerequisites
         •   Official
              – CDA 3101 (Computer Org II), 
              – COP 4610 (Operating Systems)
         •   Unofficial notes
              – A student can pass this course without much required background 
                 knowledge if he or she is motivated enough
              – A rudimentary understanding of computer architecture, and 
                 operating systems would be helpful
              – Basic probability theory may be needed to understand some 
                 performance analysis
         •   C/C++ programming is required
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                                  Course Materials
         •   Required textbook
              – “Computer Networks,'' by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Prentice Hall, 5th 
                 edition, 2011
         •   Recommended reference textbooks
              – “Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach,'' by Jim Kurose and 
                 Keith Ross, Addison-Wesley. 
              – “Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment,” by W. Richard 
                 Stevens, Addison-Wesley
              – “Unix Network Programming, the Socket Networking API,” Volume 1, 3rd 
                 Edition, by W. Richard Stevens, et al. Addison-Wesley
         •   Lecture notes, other assigned readings 
         •   Materials on the Internet
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