A top-down exploration of networking using the 5-layer model and the TCP/IP stack. HTTP, FTP, DNS, BSD Sockets, concurrent servers, checksums, reliable transport with stop-and-wait, go-back-n, ...
Required text: Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, Fifth Edition. Peterson and Davie. 2011. Other supplemental materials: Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, Sixth Edition. Kurose and Ross.