Lecture Topic 5: Information Transfer over the Internet
Description
This topic goes into the technical details behind how the major communication tools transfer their data across the Internet. It considers the software and the protocols supporting the transfer, and how it all fits together.
Scheduled Lectures
- How Does E-mail Work?
- Usenet News and Text Conferencing
- Multimedia Transport over the Internet
Required Reading
- Lecture notes
- Unit Reader: section 2.4 in Application Layer, Chapter 2 in Computer Networking - A Top Down Approach Featuring the Internet, James Kurose and Keith Ross, Addison-Wesley, 2001.
Supplementary Reading
- Unit Reader: E-mail Inner Workings, section 1.7 in In-line/On-line: Fundamentals of the Internet and the World Wide Web, Raymond Greenlaw and Ellen Hepp, MsGraw-Hill, 1999.
- Unit Reader: Internet Multimedia Protocols, Chapter 10 in Advanced Internet Technologies, Uyless Black, Prentice Hall, 1999.
Document author: H.L.
Hiew, Unit Coordinator
Last Modified: Wednesday, 18-Jul-2001 18:46:38 MST
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