Textbook

The textbook for CPSC 441 is Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (Seventh Edition), by Jim Kurose and Keith Ross, Pearson, 2017. Lecture material will be drawn primarily from this required textbook, as well as from some of the recent networking research literature.

Copies of this book are available in the University of Calgary Bookstore for approximately $200 (rental rate is $110). This is actually a very good book, so I encourage you to obtain a copy if you can. If you are looking for used copies from previous students, you might have to settle for the Sixth Edition. You can certainly survive with a slightly older edition, but the lecture materials and assigned readings in this course will be based on the current Seventh Edition.

Book Web Site

The textbook has a companion Web site for registered users, providing useful information for students and instructors. The supplementary material for students includes several demos and coding examples. The supplementary material for instructors includes slides, quizzes, assignments, programming projects, and sample solutions. I will be making use of some of these materials, particularly the applets, at various points during the course.