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CSS 432 - Network Design
Computing and Software Systems       University of Washington, Bothell   
Syllabi:
Spring 2013

Courseware Tools:
GoPost Discussion Forums
CollectIt Dropbox

Programming Resources:
Homework Assignments
Eclipse download
Linux Manual Pages
C/C++ Reference
The C++ Resource Network
From Java to C++
Beej's Guide to Network Programming
TCP/IP Guide

Textbooks Information:
Textbook Web Page

UW Resources:
UW IT Connect
UW C&C Unix Guide

UWB Resources:
ACM UWB Web Library
UWB Quantitative Skills Center
UWB Writing Center

Francis Wang
fcw3@uw.edu

General Course Description

The course examines methods for designing LANs and WANs that optimize Quality of Service (QoS). It covers theoretical and practical elements of the OSI protocol stack, routing protocols including OSPF and BGP, networking management/architecture, router configuration, network security, Internet policies and emerging networking technologies.


Section Information

CSS432 is taught by three CSS professors. This section is taught by Francis Wang and is closely modeled after the course format used by Prof. Fukuda. Thus, it is largely oriented to programming and experiments. The course includes five programming assignments: sockets, the sliding window algorithm, TCP tools, DNS access, and a network application. To get familiar with network programming, this course section first focuses on TCP, UDP, sockets, flow control, congestion control, DNS, SMTP, FTP, and HTTP, and thereafter covers router management.