| Course: | 6.829: Computer Networks |
| Instructor: | Hari Balakrishnan |
| Department: | EECS |
| Institution: | MIT |
| Textbooks: | None, Selected Readings |
| Level: | Graduate |
| Duration: | 2 day semester (3 hours per week) |
| Prerequisites: | 6.033 Computer systems engineering (undergrad systems); elementary probability |
| Offered: | Fall |
| Course URL: | http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/6.829/ |
From Instructor:
The goals of 6.829 are to train the next generation of networking researchers, practitioners, and engineers. In particular, our goals are: 1.To understand the state-of-the-art in network protocols, architectures and applications. 2.To understand how networking research is done. 3.To investigate novel ideas in the area via semester-long research projects. Topics include internetworking philosophies, unicast and multicast routing, congestion control, network quality of service, mobile networking, router architectures, network-aware applications, content dissemination systems, network security, and performance issues. Material for the course will be drawn from research papers, industry white papers, and Internet RFCs.