COMP 151-01 Principles of Internet Communication

This course focuses on three aspects of the Internet: how it works (design of key protocols and applications), why it works like that (design trade-offs and alternate solutions), and how can you make it better (proposals to make the Internet better). A major emphasis will be on the basic performance and engineering tradeoffs underlying the design of the Internet. Topics to be covered include: networked applications (e.g., web, p2p), reliability, congestion and flow control, routing, addressing, naming, wireless, security, and new Internet architectures. We will also cover several classic and recent research papers in networking.