Iowa State University

Cpr E 489: Computer Networking and Data Communications

Course Information

Welcome to Cpr E 489! We are looking forward to learning together with you. In this course, we will try to understand how computer networks operate: how packets are transmitted, how packets are routed, what to do when there is network congestion, and etc. We will study OSI reference model and TCP/IP networking architecture. Various protocols at the physical, data link, network, and transport layers will be studied. We will get familiar with the OPNET network simulator. We will learn what sockets are and how to use them, and we will write codes to build simple client-server applications.