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This course teaches the methods and tools used for network programming. Topics include: Operating System support for network protocols; inter-process communication facilities such as pipes, Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) and sockets; design of client and server sides of network protocols; and network security.

The syllabus contains the general class information.

Lecture Notes And References

• Lecture 1 (1/9): Introduction and Review (Ch. 1)
• Socket overview (Chapters 2 and 3)
• Pthreads tutorial and example (Chapter 26)
• FTP and TFTP protocols
• Threads pitfalls
• Client/Server concurrency with processes (Chapters 4 and 5)
• IO multiplexing (Chapter 6)
• Elementary UDP servers (Chapter 8)
• Socket options (Chapter 7)
• HTTP
• DNS name and address conversion
• SCTP (Chapter 10 and 23)
• Broadcasting and multicasting (Chapters 20 and 21)
• IPv6 (Chapter 12)

Programming Assignments

• Assignment #1 (due date: Monday, January 30 31): Handout
• Assignment #2 (due date: Tuesday, Feb 14): Handout and sample test script
• Assignment #3: Handout
• Assignment #4 (due date: Monday, March 13): Handout
• Finale

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