HOT NEWS!
Kent State /MCS
has won the "Internet Teaching Laboratory" award! Yes, we have received equipment for a new laboratory to set up a piece of the real
Internet backbone with industrial strength routers and high performance
links right in our department under this award.
Thhe graduate students in
the class can use this lab, and get first hand experinece in the technology
that is running today's Internet. There is only few such facilities in USA.
If you are interested contact me in advance for get a substitution for term
paper work.
Also get ready for our other
networking courses, as this lab will provide our students some exciting
and unique new learning opportunities.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
If you are interested in knowing
how the newest (if not the greatest) of the modern wonders Internet &
World Wide Web works, what goes on silently on the millions of interconnected
computers at the speed of nano and microseconds to bring you services and
documents from half a world apart, just by the click of a button, this
is the course for you.
This is not a course to learn
HTML or JAVA programming. Rather, this is about the components (technologies)
of Internet, how all of these are working, and their design.
We will cover topics ranging from networks to server/cleint technology.
To complete our indepth learning,
this course will involve practical group project where students will build
their own mini Server and mini Browser. This is the starting point for
web application engineers and developers. If your thesis/ dissertation
involves systems linked with web, this is for you too.
WHO
SHOULD TAKE:
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If you are fascinated by Web,
want to know indepth about it, and curious about its inner design and working
mechanisms.
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If you want to develop your
own Internnet applications/ servers/ browsers/search engines.
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If you want that extra edge
in the job market which is riding on the Internet explosion.
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If you want to do /thesis/dissertation/research
on Networking, Internet, Distributed Systems and Web technology.
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If you plan to do a project/thesis/dissertation
in any other field (Math, CS, business ad, fashion design, psychology,
physics, etc.) but want to connect your work with Internet.
If you are interested in this
course and want to know more contact me
Instructor:
Prof.
Javed I. Khan
217 MSB, Math & Computer
Science Department
For office hours see my
webpage.
Phone: 330-672-9038
Email: javed@kent.edu |
TEXT BOOK:
The course will use extensively
on-line materials provided by the instructor and demonstrations. A number
of books will be used as reference material.
Principal:
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Internetworking The Grand Scheme:
Webbook: Will be made available via web.
References:
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Internet Computer Networks &
Internet, 2nd Edition, Comer, D. E., Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-239070-1
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Client/Server Internetworking
with TCP/IP Vol-III, Comer D. E, Prentice hall, ISBN-0-13-474230-3
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Web Systems Web Server Technology,
Nancy Yeager & McGarth, Morgan Kaufmann, 1996, ISBN 1-55860-376-X
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Computer Networks, 3rd Edition,
A Tenenbaum, PH.
SAMPLE TOPICS YOU WILL LEARN IN
THE COURSE:
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Concepts-I: Infrastructure
and Organization of Internet.
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Concepts-II: Internet Addressing
and DNS System
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Internet Routing: Basics, OSPF,
BGP, IBGP, Policy Engine.
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Internet Client-Server Models
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Classical Internet Services:
FTP, EMAIL, Telnet, WAIS,
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Internet Service Layer Protocols-1:
URL, MIME, HTTP protocol, Dexter Hypertext Model,
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Web Systems-I: Web Server Cleint
Architecture, CGI mechanism, Virtual Machine,
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Web systems-II: Cooperating
servers, Plugins,
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Web Systems: search engines,
web crawler data mining, and portals.
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Multimedia Services: atream
audio/ channels, multicast services:
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Business Systems & Internet
Seciruty: Intranet, Security: Firewalls, Encryption based Systems
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Internet Performance & Future
Technologies
Prerequisite:
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Computer Networks & Operating
Systems
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Programming skill in C or C++
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Experience in HTML and Java
will help but not an absolute necessity.
If you are not sure about your
background contact me. |