as well as the motivation for a layered network architecture. • Explain basic physical layer signaling techniques to communicate digital bits over analog media (wireless and wired). • Explain basic ...

local area networks and architecture and performance; layered network architecture, protocols, switching techniques, TCP/IP, traffic engineering and basic capacity analysis. REQUIRED TEXT: Computer ...

Topics include: TCP/IP and OSI layered network architectures and associated protocols, application layer, network programming API (sockets), transport, congestion, flow control, routing, addressing, ...