1. An Intro to networking technologies

Introduction to Networking

• Computing Basics
• Networking Fundamentals
• Network Devices
• Network Topologies

Network Types

• Local-Area Networks
• Wide-Area Networks
• Other Types of Network

Network Media

• Network Media Types
• Cabling the LAN
• Cabling the WAN

TCP/IP

• TCP/IP Overview
• Transport Layer
• Establishing a TCP Connection
• TCP/IP Internet Layer Overview

IP Addressing and Routing

• IP Networking Addressing
• IP Subnetting and Calculation
• Routing Basics
• Routing Protocols

            Labs/Exercise with IP address and routing

2 TCP/IP Protocol Services

What is TCP/IP?

Transport Services

Connection-less Services: UDP

Connection-oriented Services: TCP

Deciding on a Transport: UDP versus TCP

Network services

IP Services

ICMP Services

Support Protocols & Services

Domain Name Service (DNS)

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)

Other Support Protocols

            Labs/Exercises on TCP/IP, DNS and related commands

3. Network Program Mechanics

Client-Server Model

Client & Server Association

Network Program Sketch

Open a Socket

socket()

Name the Socket

Associate with Another Socket

Send and Receive Between Sockets

Sending Data on a "connected" Socket

Sending Data on an "unconnected" Socket

Receiving Data

Association as Socket Demultiplexer

Close the Socket

Client & Server Sketches

Connection-oriented (TCP) Network Applications

Connection-less (UDP) Network Applications

            Labs/Exercises on Socket operations and related packet handling

4. Operation Modes

What are Operation Modes?

Wait on Hold: Blocking

Call Again Later: Non-blocking

Request a Call Back: Asynchronous

Blocking

Blocking Sockets

Blocking Functions

Blocking is Fake

Blocking Hook Functions

Canceling Blocking Operations

Timeouts on Blocking Operations

No Receive Minimum

Code Example

Non-Blocking

How Do You Make a Socket Non-blocking?

Success and failure are not absolutes!

Polling Instead of Blocking

Explicit Yielding

Code Example

Asynchronous

What Are the Asynchronous Functions?

Performance Differences

Platform Differences

            Labs/Exercises of packet handling Blocking, Non-Blocking, and
            asynchronous modes.
5. Advance Topics Client Server / BSD Socket

• Client /Server model using Sockets
• BSD Berkeley Socket Data Structure
• Socket Setup and Communication
• Byte Ordering , Alignment, and Padding in Socket Programming
• Framing and  Parsing in Socket Programming
• Any other left out topics and doubts

Labs/Exercises related to advance topics
* Outline is subject to slight modification and change.