Computer Networks

Catalog description

. Corequisites: COMP 4850 . An introductory course in computer networking. Fundamental concepts of data communication, networking, and communication architectures are discussed including transmission, digital and analog data and signaling, encoding, packet/circuit/virtual-circuit switching, layered communication architecture and OSI layers, general description of application, transport, network, and link layers. Basic traffic control algorithms, including error control, flow control, routing, and congestion control and some detailed protocol study of Ethernet, ATM, and TCP/IP.