ECS 152A COMPUTER NETWORKS Fall 2012

Homepage: http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~prasant/ECS152A/

Instructor: Prof. Prasant Mohapatra, pmohapatra@ucdavis.edu

2105 Watershed / 2063 Kemper, 754-8380 / 754-8016

Office Hours: Mondays and Fridays - (1:00pm - 2:00pm in Watershed 2105)

Teaching Assistant: Aveek Das (akdas@ucdavis.edu), 55 Kemper

Office Hours: Wednesdays and Fridays (1:30pm – 3:00pm)

Textbook: Computer Networking, 6^th Edition: Kurose and Ross

Grading: Homeworks 20%

Projects 20%

Midterm 30%

Final 30%

Course Outline:

1. Overview of Computer Networks

Basic Elements

Protocol Layers

Performance Fundamentals

2. Internet Applications

Email (SMTP)

Web and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

Domain Name Service (DNS)

3. Transport Layer

Connectionless Transport (UDP)

Connection-Oriented Transport (TCP)

Principles of Congestion Control

4. Network Layer

Circuit Switching and Packet Switching

Internet Protocol

Routing in the Internet

5. Links, Multiple Access, and LAN

Error Detection and Correction

Multiple Access Protocols

Ethernet and LAN Switches

6. Wireless and Mobile Networks

Wireless LAN

Cellular Networks

7. Network Security

Fundamentals and Operational Security