CS 438 — Communication Networks

COURSE REFERENCE NUMBER (CRN): 51445

Course Description: This course covers layered architectures and the OSI Reference Model; design issues and protocols in the transport, network, and data link layers; architectures and control algorithms of local-area, point-to-point, and satellite networks; standards in networks access protocols; models of network interconnection; and provides an overview of networking and communication software.

Home Page: https://agora.cs.uiuc.edu/display/I2CS/I2CS+Student+Gateway
CS course Web sites will be ready the first week of class.

Prerequisites: A course in system programming and a course in statistics and probability (such as MATH 461).

Credit: 3 hours (CS certificate students must enroll concurrently in CS 591 ONL). Counts toward a certificate in Computer Science.

Instructor: Robin Kravets and Matthew Chapman Caesar