General Information

Section: Class Hours: Room: Instructor: E-mail: Office: Office Hours:
CMP 405 01 (55780 & 55781) M, W 11:00 AM - 12:40 PM GI-231 Steven Fulakeza steven DOT fulakeza AT lehman DOT cuny DOT edu GI-232 TBD
CMP 405 81 (55816 & 55817) M, W 6:00 - 7:40 PM GI-231 Sameh Fakhouri sameh DOT fakhouri AT lehman DOT cuny DOT edu GI-102 Instructor Office Hours

Description: 4 hours, 3 credits

4 hours, 3 credits. Introduction to network protocols and algorithms. Intensive study of the most important protocols at each layer. Examination of their strengths and weaknesses. Basic algorithms for identifying primary servers, constructing forwarding and broadcasting trees, and determining routing tables. Writing a simple networking service at the I.P. layer or higher. Lab exercises include building and testing small networks. PREREQ: CMP 334 and CMP 338.

Grading Policy

Expectations: Students are expected to learn both the material covered in class and the material in the textbook and other assigned reading. Completing homework is an essential part of the learning experience. Students should review topics from prior courses as needed using old notes and books.

Honor Code: You are encouraged to work together on the overall design of the homework. However, for specific homework assignments, all work must be your own. You are responsible for knowing and following Lehman's academic integrity code

All incidents of cheating will be reported to the Vice President of Student Affairs.

Email: I will be communicating with you on a regular basis throughout the semester using your email address on Blackboard. You must verify that blackboard has your Lehman College email address. You must check that email address on a regular basis. There will be no acceptable excuse for missing an email announcement.

Homework: Homework is due most weeks. Homework assignments are posted on the class website, they reinforce concepts covered in class. Extra credit will be available for the homework.

The homework will be submitted on blackboard. All homework assignments must be typed and submitted as Microsoft Word documents files. No other forms of submission will be accepted.

No late homework will be accepted.

Exams: There will be a midterm exam and a final exam.

Grades: The grading for the course will be based on:

Since the final exam is comprehensive, if you do better on the final exam than the midterm exam, the final grade can replace the midterm grade. This will be done automatically when your final grade is calculated. Please note that There are no make-up exams.

Materials, Resources and Accommodating Disabilities

Textbook: Internetworking With TCP/IP, Principles, Protocols, and Architecture (Sixth Edition) by Douglas E. Comer. (ISBN-13: 978-0-13-608530-0, ISBN-10: 0-13-608530-X).

Accommodating Disabilities: Lehman College is committed to providing access to all programs and curricula to all students. Students with disabilities who may need classroom accommodations are encouraged to register with the Office of Student Disability Services. For more info, please contact the Office of Student Disability Services, Shuster Hall, Room 238, phone number, 718-960-8441.

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, students should be able to:

  1. Define and use basic concepts and terminologies for networking.
  2. Describe the layers of the TCP/IP reference model and their purposes.
  3. Work with classful and classless internet addressing.
  4. Explain the Address Resolution Protocol.
  5. Identify the elements of segments, datagrams and Ethernet frames.
  6. Explain datagram fragmentation.
  7. Understand internet routing and routing protocols.
  8. Explain how routing protocols such as BGP, RIP, and OSPF work.
  9. Explain UDP, TCP and ICMP.
  10. Understand sliding window protocols.