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CRN | 10489 |
Course Number | ECEC-631 |
Section Number | 501 |
Credits | 3.0 |
Time | Thursdays 6pm - 8:50pm |
Room | Curtis Hall Room 353 |
Instructor | Steven Weber |
Restrictions | graduate standing |
Department | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Principles of circuit switching, packet switching and virtual circuits; protocol layering; application layer protocols for e-mail and web applications; naming and addressing; flow control and congestion avoidance with TCP; Internet Protocol (IP); routing algorithms; router architectures; multicast protocols; local area network technologies and protocols; issues in multimedia transmissions; scheduling and policing; Quality-of-Service and emerging Internet service architectures; principles of cryptography.
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Title | Communication Networking : An Analytical Approach |
Authors | Anurag Kumar, D. Janjunath, and Joy Kuri | |
Publisher | Morgan Kaufmann | |
ISBN | 0124287514 | |
Edition | 1st |
Homework (one problem set per week) | 20% |
Midterm Exam (comprehensive) | 40% |
Final Exam (comprehensive) | 40% |
Makeup exams are only available if you are unable to attend due to a severe health problem or a death in your family. Homeworks are due at the beginning of class, one week following the class in which they were assigned. Late homeworks will not be accepted.
The Drexel University policy on academic dishonesty will be strictly enforced. Plagiarism, fabrication, and cheating will, at the discretion of the instructor, constitute grounds for failure of the course.