CSE 222A: Computer Communication Networks

The required textbook for this course is:

• Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, fifth edition, by Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie.

  It is available from the UCSD Bookstore, Amazon, or online from the UC San Diego campus or VPN.

In addition, we suggest several texts as background:

• Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, 3rd edition, by James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross. Covers similar material to Peterson and Davie.
• TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols by W. Richard Stevens.
• Unix Network Programming: Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI (Volume 1) by W. Richard Stevens.
• Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment by W. Richard Stevens, Addison-Wesley, 1993.

Your final grade for the course will be based on the following weights:

• 50% Project
• 40% Quizzes
• 10% Class Participation

There will be several unannounced, closed book pop quizzes throughout the term. The final quiz will be open book at the end of the quarter.

The major portion of this course will consist of a term research project, carried out in teams of two or three, culminated by a talk and paper. I will provide a number of ideas that can serve as a starting point for many projects. Students can also work with me to define a separate project in an area related to the course. The project will make up the bulk of the course. Students will spend the first part of the course defining the project and researching related work. The actual work on the project will be completed in the last six weeks of the course.