A top-down exploration of networking using the 5-layer model and the TCP/IP stack. HTTP, FTP, DNS, BSD Sockets, concurrent servers, checksums, reliable transport with stop-and-wait, go-back-n, ...

Bus topologies are not widely used in modern networking as they are not well suited to dealing with large amounts of data. They are used when a small, cheap and often temporary network is needed ...

is the process of a user confirming that they are who they say they are on a computer system. In a network, this is often done through inputting a username and password. For networks that require ...

to let you understand the fundamental ideas that underline the design of large-scale distributed computer networks, and (2) to help you learn how to do networking systems research. DETAILED COURSE ...

A computer without a network, arguably ... Although a good programming background may not be necessary for some of the topics under networking (e.g., low-level communications, hardware issues), ...

Presents the different harmonizing functions needed for the interconnection of many heterogeneous computer networks. Internet protocols, such as UDP, TCP, IP, ARP, BGP and IGMP, are used as examples ...