CMSI 355 Networks

3 semester hours

A detailed study of the design and use of network and internet technologies in modern digital communication systems. Physical networking components, packets and virtual circuits, routing and control protocols, signaling, multicasting, sockets, IPv4, IPv6, UDP, TCP, ARP, ICMP, IGMP, DNS, SMTP, FTP, VoIP, and HTTP(S). Basic architecture, protocols and services of the global Internet; data interchange formats such as JSON; client and server-side web programming (including webworkers and socket.io); the design of database-backed systems, middleware, scalability and security.

Lecture, 3 hours.

Prerequisite: CMSI 284 .