CSCI 361 Introduction to

Computer Networks

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 Why this course?
Most complex system
over world
Over 40% of people
on earth use the
Internet
Over 84.20% of US
people use the Internet

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 Why this course? (cont.)
Most popular IT companies now more or less
related to computer network and the Internet

Especially unicorn companies

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Chapter 1: Introduction

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 Chapter 1: roadmap
1.1 what is the Internet?
1.2 network edge
end systems, access networks, links
1.3 network core
packet switching, circuit switching, network structure
1.4 delay, loss, throughput in networks
1.5 protocol layers, service models
1.6 networks under attack: security
1.7 history
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Whats the Internet: nuts and bolts view
PC mobile network
millions of connected
server
computing devices:
global ISP
wireless
laptop
hosts = end systems
smartphone running network apps
communication links home
network
fiber, copper, radio, regional ISP
wireless
links satellite
wired
links transmission rate:
bandwidth
Packet switches: forward
packets (chunks of data)
router routers and switches institutional
network

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 Whats the Internet: nuts and bolts view
mobile network
Internet: network of
networks global ISP

Interconnected ISPs
home
protocols control sending, network
regional ISP
receiving of msgs
e.g., TCP, IP, HTTP, Skype, 802.11
Internet standards
RFC: Request for comments
IETF: Internet Engineering Task
Force institutional
network

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