Course: CISC856 TCP/IP & Upper Layer Protocols - SYLLABUS

Professor: Paul D. Amer
Office: 434 Smith Hall
Office Hours: T: 11am-12;Th; 2-3pm
Phone: 831-1944 (office); 540-8840 (cell, for urgent matters please)
Email: amer@cis.udel.edu

Course URL: www.cis.udel.edu/~amer/CISC856/
Semester: Fall 2012
Class Times: T, Th; 12:30-1:45pm
Last Updated: 8/27/12

Course Description: CISC856 focuses on advanced principles and techniques employed in the network layer and above. Emphasis is placed on the Internet's TCP/IP protocol suite. In the first five weeks, the professor overviews the general framework of TCP/IP, discussing details not covered fully in CISC650 for protocols up to and including the transport layer. In the next five weeks, students will present official or important proposed draft TCP/IP protocol standards. The remaining weeks are dedicated to experimental protocols, e.g., the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), an up-and-coming transport layer protocol.

CISC856 is an advanced graduate level course taught in seminar-discussion fashion. Students are responsible to be proactive in their learning. The professor's role is less directive and more one of stimulating and guiding learning by managing the topics discussed and monitoring the quality of presentations.

Course Prerequisites

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Assignments Grading Academic Honesty: Students in one group are PROHIBITED from accessing or comparing homework answers with those of any other student (past or present, alive or dead(!)) prior to submitting the assignment. Students may not use any web site that contains answers to the textbook questions. In particular, the publisher provides an answer key to all of the odd-numbered homework questions. Students are not permitted to access this answer key. If you do not have sufficient time to complete an assignment, then submit partial solutions. Do not get answers or compare answers from someone else. Students who get answers from outside including the use of the publisher's answer key, or who compare answers with other groups prior to submission should be keenly aware that in this class, they are acting dishonestly, and if caught, will be prosecuted according to University guidelines. This prosecution applies both to a student who gets answers and a student who gives answers.

Laptops and Cell Phones

I love my job teaching at UD, and promise to work extremely hard to make this class exciting and challenging. In return, I expect your full attention in class. I believe cell phone texting and the use of a laptop for doing other class assignments, reading email, playing video games, visiting Facebook, etc., while someone is working to educate you is as rude as it gets, and I will be personally offended. At the beginning of class, turn off your cell phone, and close your laptop. Thank you.