TCP/IP networking

Summary

In the lectures you will learn and understand the main ideas that underlie and the way communication networks are built and run. In the labs you will exercise practical configurations.

Content

Keywords

TCP/IP

Computer Networks

Learning Prerequisites

Required courses

A first programming course (Python)

Recommended courses

An undergraduate course on Computer Networks

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 student's computer.

Expected student activities

Participate in lectures

Participate 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 exercice 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

Notes/Handbook

Slides are on moodle

Websites

• http://moodle.epfl.ch/course/view.php?id=523

Moodle Link

• https://go.epfl.ch/COM-407