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Courses Handbook 2014

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2014.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2013.

4522 (v.7) Advanced Computer Communications 300

Area: Department of Computing
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
TUITION PATTERNS: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Practical: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):     4521 (v.7) Computer Communications 200 or any previous version
    OR
    12703 (v.2) Engineering Programming 104 or any previous version
AND
    300538 (v.2) Data Communications and Network Management 203 or any previous version
    OR
    Admission into 313312 (v.1) Bachelor of Science (Computing) or any previous version
    OR
    Admission into 151099 (v.5) Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) or any previous version
UNIT REFERENCES, TEXTS, OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENT DETAILS: The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Syllabus: Computer network applications rapidly develop with the massive proliferation use of the internet in the world. The unit describes the overview of the Internet Protocol (IP), Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), User Diagram Protocol (UDP) and Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). The students will learn the conceptual and programming of network applications in TCP/UDP/SCTP/IP environments using sockets. The students will have hands-on experience in writing client-server network program using TCP, UDP and SCTP sockets, input/output multiplexing, socket options, name and address conversions, process/thread, and client-server design alternatives.
Field of Education: 020113 Networks and Communications
Result Type: Grade/Mark


Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2014 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2014 Sri Lanka Inst Info Tech Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External


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