Advanced networks

Summary

This advanced course in computer networks offers an in-depth exploration of how the Internet is designed and operates. Students dive into the architecture of the Internet and gain hands-on understanding of the key protocols that power it.

Content

Keywords

TCP-IP

Computer Networks

Learning Prerequisites

Required courses

• An undergraduate course on Computer Networks
• A first programming course (preferably Python)

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, the student must be able to:

• Run and configure networks
• Understand the main ideas that underlie the Internet
• Write simple communicating programs
• Use communication primitives for internet and industrial applications

Transversal skills

• Access and evaluate appropriate sources of information.
• Continue to work through difficulties or initial failure to find optimal solutions.

Teaching methods

Lectures.

Online quizzes.

Labs on EPFL's VDI infrastructure.

Expected student activities

Participate in lectures

Participat in online quizzes

Make lab assignments (in the rule, every other week)

Assessment methods

Theory grade = final exam

Practice grade = average of labs

Final grade = mean of theory grade (50%) and practice grade (50%).

The research exercise may add a bonus of at most 0.5 points in 1-6 scale to the practice grade.

Supervision

Resources

Bibliography

"Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (6th or later Edition)". James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross. 2012. Pearson.

"Computer Networking : Principles, Protocols and Practice". O. Bonaventure, open source textbook, http://inl.info.ucl.ac.be/CNP3

Ressources en bibliothèque

• Computer Networking / Kurose

Références suggérées par la bibliothèque

• Computer Networking / Bonaventure (3rd ed interactive)

Moodle Link

• https://go.epfl.ch/COM-407