This course will examine the area of mobile and wireless networking, looking at the unique network protocol challenges and opportunities presented by wireless communication and host or router mobility. Although, this course will touch on some of the important physical layer properties of radio and infrared communications, it will focus on network protocols above the physical layer, with an emphasis on the media access control, network, and transport protocol layers.
In this course internet technology protocols are discussed in details. The course covers the transport layer to cover process to process delivery and its protocols. It also covers the user support layers to cover user services such as application services. Students will be able to explain the role of networking in distributed applications and to compare and contrast the historical evolution of the switched and routed infrastructures.