In the fall of 2002 the book for CIS 656 is

B.A. Forouzan (with S. C. Fegan)
TCP/IP Protocol Suite
McGraw Hill.

The second edition of this book is about to appear. Students must wait 
for the second edition.

When using the first edition of this book, roughly the first 13 chapters
were covered, plus material on Ping, NSlookup, Traceroute, TCPdump, etc.
(log on to any Unix system, do ``man ping'', ``man nslookup'', etc).

Students also will read parts of a number of IETF RFCs 
(see  http://www.IETF.org ).

An other excellent book is

Larry L. Peterson and Bruce S. Davie
Computer Networks, a Systems Approach
Morgan Kaufman.

Other good books are 

Douglas E. Comer
Internetworking with TCP/IP, Vol I:
Principles, Protocols, and Architectures
(Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-018380-6)

W. Richard Stevens
TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol I:
The Protocols
(Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-201-63346-0\9)

Gary R. Wright and W. Richard Stevens
TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol II:
The Implementation
(Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-201-63354-X)

Only for students into ``modeling'':

Dimitri Bertsekas and Robert Gallager
Data Networks
(Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-200916-1). 

Students will do a project where they have to ``implement'' part of a 
router in a high level language, preferably C or C++.

Students are free to use any environment for software development, but
MUST use their NJIT AFS account to test software before submitting their 
projects. 

There will be homework assignments.