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This course teaches the methods and tools used for network programming. Topics include: Operating System support for network protocols; inter-process communication facilities such as pipes, Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) and sockets; design of client and server sides of network protocols; and network security.

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Lecture Notes And References

• Lecture 1 (1/8): Introduction and Review (Ch. 1)
• Socket overview (Chapters 2 and 3)
• Pthreads tutorial and example (Chapter 26)
• File transfer protocols
• Threads pitfalls
• TCP client-server sockets (Chapters 4 and 5)
• Elementry UDP sockets (Chapter 8)
• IO multiplexing (Chapter 6)
• Socket options (Chapter 7)
• Advanced IO (Chapters 14 and 16)
• HTTP
• DNS and name resolution (Chapter 11)
• IPv6 (Chapter 12)
• SCTP (Chapters 10 and 23)
• Broadcast and multicast (Chapters 20 and 21)
• Server design alternatives (Chapter 30)

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