Computer Science 5480/6480 -- Fall 2002
Data Communications and Networking

Instructor:	Jay Lepreau 4548 Merrill Engineering Building (East Penthouse; enter through 4560) Office phone - 801-581-4285 Email - lepreau@cs.utah.edu
TAs:	Sachin Goyal 3167 MEB Office phone - 801-581-5618 Email - sgoyal@cs.utah.edu
	Abhijeet Joglekar (half-time) 4560 MEB Office phone - 801-581-3012 Email - abhijeet@cs.utah.edu

You can reach all of us via teach-cs5480@cs.

Course Syllabus (Postscript, PDF): This course provides an introduction to computer networks and data communication protocols. It will include some programming projects, but they won't be as intense as the OS class historically has been, for example.
Textbook: The textbook is Peterson and Davie's Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, Second Edition. The publisher maintains an Errata list.
A less expensive place to buy it new is bookpool.com. I have not personally used them, but they're highly rated and I've seen reputable people point there. Amazon, Powells, and half.com have a number of used copies. Make sure you get the 2nd edition and caveat emptor. Here's a meta site.
Sockets Information: Pocket Guide to TCP/IP Socket Programming in C, by Donahoo and Calvert. This is a good but optional reference book for socket programming. It would be useful for the projects.; RPI Sockets Tutorial (strongly recommended); Jim Frost's BSD Sockets Primer (recommended; sockets by analogy to telephones); Berkeley UNIX System Calls and Interprocess Communication, L. Besaw, with revisions by M. Solomon (recommended; this is the only one of these tutorials that contains info on select(); see section 4.2); UNIX Socket FAQ Huge FAQ on socket programming. Search here if you have specific socket programming problems.
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