École polytechnique | INF557 - From the Internet to the IoT: Fundamentals of Modern Computer Networking

Academic year: 2018-2019

Teaching coordinator: Thomas Clausen

Course objectives :

• Understand networking architectures
• Understand the algorithms, and principles that make the Internet work
• Study select protocols as examples, illustrating these architectures, algorithms and principles.
• Emphasis on why, not how
• Emphasis on learning, not repeating
• Make the student able to read, understand, and write, a protocol specification

Course topics :

• Communicating Systems
• Concurrent Software Architectures
• Transport Layer
• Towards TCP: Unified Signalling and Congestion Control
• The Network Layer - Forwarding & Routing
• Routing Protocols
• Data-Link Layers
• The Internet of Things

Source : https://moodle.polytechnique.fr/course/view.php?id=5281