Course Number:

Credit Hours:

4

Course Title:

Principles of Internetworking

Course Description:

Studies the fundamental concepts of internetworking, such as design issues and protocol functionality. Uses Internet protocols, such as TCP and UDP, IP, ICMP, ARP, RIP, OSPF, BGP, CIDR, DNS, and others to demonstrate how internetworking is realized. Discusses TCP congestion and flow control. Emphasizes IP routing and addressing including subnetting and supernetting, fragmentation, and routing algorithms. Discusses RIP and OSPF and Dijkstra’s and Bellman-Ford algorithm. Uses analytical, numerical, and simulation tools to evaluate performance. Presents application protocols MTP, FTP, telnet, HTTP, and real-time protocols including RTP to demonstrate the protocol design characteristics in accordance with the application requirements. Topics also include multicast, mobility, auto configuration, resource allocation and fairness policy, naming, client-server model (sockets), quality-of-service requirements and mechanisms, flow specs and token bucket, network performance bounds, and models and approximations. Uses applications of multimedia networking, www, and others. Includes programming assignments.