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Course No.: CS 522 Instructor: C. Edward Chow Class Time: MW 4:30-5:45 pm Office Address: ENS 186 Class Room: EN 105 Office Hour: MW: 1:30-2pm 4-4:30pm T:9-10am Office Phone: 262-3110 Email / IM: chow@cs.uccs.edu / MS Messenger

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Course Objective:

Introduction to computer communication networks, protocols, and their design, analysis, and implementation techniques.

• Introduction, OSI Reference Model, and Network Services/Applications, Tanenbaum Chapter1 viewgraph,
• Ethereal as a learning tool for comparing FTP and SFTP sessions, PC Network Setup
• Protocol Engineering: Protocol Specification, Verification, (Reachability Analysis), & Implementation
• Chapter2 Transmission, Coding, Chapter3 DataLink, Switching, and ARQ.
• Queueing Theory, Chapter 4Medium Access, Internetworking
• Routing, Flow and Congestion control, Chapter 5 NetworkLyaer
• Transport Protocols, MPLS, Integrated Services, RSVP, Differentiated Services.
• Higher Layer Protocols, DHCP, Mobile IP.

midterm(20%), final exam(20%), homework assignments(40%), network/protocol research project(20%)

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CS522 F2006 Class Photo Album and Web Pages

CS522 F2004 Class Photo Album and Web Pages
 

Please create a personal web page at http://cs.uccs.edu/~<login> with your personal photo, basic vita,  your interests in this class,  and potential semester projects that you may work on.  This will allow classmates to find common interests and know each other. See http://wetterhorn.uccs.edu/~cs301/graphics/scanning.htm for scanning your personal photo.  You can also use my personal web page as a template. If you do not know how to setup your personal web page, drop by my office.  I will help you.  This is part of your hw#1.
Make sure you use <login>.jpg for your photo image file.  Check on a browser and see if you can access your web page.  If you got "forbidden" msg, it means that you need to open the access rights of your home directory and public_html directory.  Use "chmod 755 ../<login>" and "chmod 755 public_html" commands for changing the access rights.

CS522 Email List:  We established a mail list cs522-l@uccs.edu that can be considered as group mailing address or a distribution list.  You can email to the whole class using this email address. Use with precaution.  When uccs.edu mail server receives an email for this address, it looks up a file with the list of your email addresses in the format of <uccslogin>@uccs.edu, and send each of you a copy.  To forward the email to your own server,  you need to

• either set up a .forward file which contains the email address with your default mail server,  or
• configure your mail program or your default mail server to read mails from POP (post office protocol) server of uccs.edu.

We have setup 6 CS Unix Machines: blanca, crestone, sanluis, shavano, wetterhorn, redcloud for your homework exercises. You can remote login there to carry out those exercises. Your CS Unix account is different from that of UCCS Computing Service Account. The login for the CS Unix server is first initial, second initial, last name (up to a total of eight characters). For new accout, it is the same as your campus UFP account. The new password will be set to the last four digits of your SID repeated twice. Please login and use yppasswd to change it. Check your account by remote login with SSH clients and see if your password is valid. If not, email Jim Martin, jlmartin@eas.uccs.edu, our system admin to reset your password.

Once we get the offiical email list of the class, our system administrator will set up Microsoft E-Academy account for you to download MS VPC2004, VS2005, WinXP, Win2003 Server, and other related software package from Microsoft for academic and class exercises. You can set up VPC 2004 on a notebook or external hard drive. You can also install the OS' and related software package your self. Contact me if you are interested in download, install, and configuration virtual machines.

If you use Windows system at home, try to use free SSH Secure Shelll software package with SSH Secure Shell Client,/Secure File Transfer Client, from http://www.ssh.org/support/downloads/secureshellwks/non-commercial.html, to login to CS Unix machines. It is secure since the password is not transmitted as clear text and all data are encrytped.
You can also setup xterm over ssh http://www.linuks.mine.nu/windows/sshx.html

For the queueing and network modeling/simulation topics, we will use the industry strength tools such as IT guru and Modeler donated by Opnet to enhance the students' learning.

Andrew S. Tanenbaum, "Computer Networks," 4th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2003, ISBN 0-13-066102-3.
There will be reading assignments from the text and additional reference articles. Reading assignments will not cover exactly the same material as the lectures.

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Disability Service:

If you have a disability for which you are requesting an accommodation, you are encouraged to contact the Disability Services Office within the first week of classes. The Disability Services Office is located in Main Hall #105. (Phone # is 262-3354.)