Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 6.829 (Fall 2002) 
• Course Title:
• Computer Networks 
• Course Level:
• Graduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Hari Balakrishnan 
• Course Introduction:
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  6.829 Computer Networks
  
  
  
  

  Fall 2002

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features an extensive reading list, along with lecture notes and other materials used by students in the course.

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  Course Description

  
  
  

  How does the global network infrastructure work and what are the design principles on which it is based? In what ways are these design principles compromised in practice? How do we make it work better in today's world? How do we ensure that it will work well in the future in the face of rapidly growing scale and heterogeneity? And how should Internet applications be written, so they can obtain the best possible performance both for themselves and for others using the infrastructure? These are some issues that are grappled with in this course. The course will focus on the design, implementation, analysis, and evaluation of large-scale networked systems.

  Topics include internetworking philosophies, unicast and multicast routing, congestion control, network quality of service, mobile networking, router architectures, network-aware applications, content dissemination systems, network security, and performance issues. Material for the course will be drawn from research papers, industry white papers, and Internet RFCs.
  

  
  
  

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