CSC 150 Chapter 7: Computer Networks
primary information resource: Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, James Kurose and Keith Ross, Addison-Wesley, 2000.

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Networking Introduction

This was a PowerPoint presentation consisting of selected lecture slides provided with the Kurose and Ross textbook for Chapter 1.  For intellectual property reasons, the presentation is not available for download.

The list of topics is:

• what is the Internet
• what is a protocol
• the network edge
• the network core
• accessing the network
• physical media
• protocol layers and stacks
• backbones
• Internet history

Internet Applications

This was a PowerPoint presentation consisting of selected lecture slides provided with the Kurose and Ross textbook for Chapter 2.  For intellectual property reasons, the presentation is not available for download.

The list of topics is:

• client-server paradigm
• application layer protocols
• programming networked applications
• transport service
• http: protocol of the web
• ftp: file transfer protocol
• e-mail: protocols for delivering and accessing email
• DNS: translating names into IP addresses
• Socket programming