1. Intro to Sockets Programming
2. Review IP (subnetting, CIDR)
3. Review TCP (RTT & RTO calculations, Slow Start, Fast Retransmit – Fast Recovery)
4. Hamming codes
5. Network Performance Analysis (Router Testing)
6. Multicast
• Group Membership (IGMP)
• Routing Protocols (Dense Mode vs. Sparse Mode)
• Reliable Multicast (Source Based, Receiver Based)
7. HTTP
8. ATM

• ATM Architecture (Physical Layer, ATM Layer, AAL)
• QoS, Call Admission Control (CAC)
• LANE, CLIP over ATM

1. Network Security

• DES, RSA, MD5
• Key Servers
• NAT, VPN
• IPSEC

1. QoS (Multimedia Networking)

• Router Queuing Techniques (WFQ, RED)
• Improvements to Best Effort
• Integrated Services Architecture
• Differential Services