Colgate University Computer Science Department

This course introduces the fundamental concepts in computer networks. Topics include layered network architecture, error detection and correction, medium access control, routing, congestion control, and internetworking. If time permits, the following advanced topics may also be included: network security, multimedia, multicast, and wireless networking. Students complete weekly laboratory assignments in which they build network applications and implement increasingly complex network protocols in order to gain a deeper understanding of topics covered in class. The required credit-bearing laboratory COSC 465L must be taken concurrently with COSC 465.

Prerequisites: COSC 303 and 304, or permission of instructor. Some knowledge of differential calculus and elementary probability and statistics is helpful.

COSC Course Offerings for Spring 2008