CS330 Net-Centric Computing -- fall 2010

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
Prerequisites:
        CS210 Advanced Data Structure and Algorithm
        or consent of instructor
Lecture:
Arr
Office Hours:
        M-Th 2:30-4:30pm; Or by appointments.

Course Materials

• Required
• Data and Computer Communication, 8th Edition
  by William Stallings.

Topics

This is an introduction to net-centric computing class. The goals of the course are to provide students with a fundamental understanding of net-centric computing, data communication, computer networks, and distributed computing architectures, and to experience and implement basic inter-computer communication via Internet(TCP/IP) and local area networks. The projects may require some coding. Therefore I expect all of you have some programming experiences.

The lecture notes are organized into five topics based on materials covered in the textbook.

Topic 1	Data Communications and Networking Overview.  Protocol Architectures: OSI, TCP/IP	Ch. 1,2
Topic 2	DATA COMMUNICATIONS.  Data Transmission.  Guided and Wireless Transmission.  Signal Encoding Techniques.  Digital Data Communication Techniques.  Data Link Control.  Multiplexing.	Ch. 3-8
Topic 3	WIDE AREA NETWORKS.  Circuit Switching and Packet Switching.  Routing in Switched Networks.  Congestion Control in Switched Data Networks.  Cellular Wireless Networks.	Ch. 10, 12-14
Topic 4	LOCAL AREA NETWORKS.  Local Area Network Overview.  High-Speed LANs.  Wireless LANs.	Ch. 15-17
Topic 5	COMMUNICATIONS ARCHITECTURE AND PROTOCOLS.  Internetwork Protocols.  Transport Protocols.  Network Security. Distributed Applications	Ch. 18,20-22
	Final Exam

Assignments

There will be three assignments on Internet navigation, network multimedia communication, and TCP/IP network programming.

• Assignment 1 Internet Search
• Assignment 2 Network simulation
• Assignment 3 TCP/IP Programming

Later homework will have 10% subtracted from the score for every day late.

Grading

· Assignments: 60%

· Final Exam:   40%
(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 email me about your questions related to the course or share related information with the class.