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Spring 2026 Practice Study Observation Lecture Upper Division
Data communications: communication hardware technologies including local area and longhaul network hardware, circuit and packet switching, interfaces between computer and network hardware, and performance issues. Network architecture: protocol software and conceptual layering, reliable delivery over an unreliable channel, transport protocols, virtual circuits, datagrams, internetworking as a fundamental design concept, the client-server paradigm, naming and name binding, name servers, addressing and address resolution, routing and routing algorithms, congestion and flow control techniques, network file systems, distribution of computation, and DARPA internet protocols (TCP/IP) as examples of protocol organization.
Learning Outcomes1Network services and applications, including DNS and HTTP .
2The socket API .
3Network transport architectures, TCP, UDP and TCP congestion control.
4Routing and forwarding, intra-domain and inter-domain routing algorithms.
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