In the spring of 2003 the book for CIS 656 is

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

Students who read this page in time are recommended to read the chapters
1, 2, and 3 of Forouzan before the first class meeting (January 25).
This is material students are supposed to already know.

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

After two weeks in this class students must be in the habit of reading 
IETF RFCs. As training, find RFC 1700 and have a look at it. (Too big to
read). Find RFC 3232 and read it in its entirety. Go to the URL
www.iana.org  and have a look at it. (Too big to read).

Other excellent book are:

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

James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross
Computer Networking, A top-down approach featuring the Internet.
Addison Wesley, 2001.

Other good books are 

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

Douglas E. Comer and David L. Stevens
Internetworking with TCP/IP, Vol II:
Design, Implementation, and Internals.
(Prentice Hall).

Douglas E. Comer and David L. Stevens
Internetworking with TCP/IP, Vol III:
Client-Server Programming and Applications.
(Prentice Hall).

The next two are almost a ``bible'' on TCP/IP,
in particular the BSD implementation:

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). 

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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 a restriction on what compilers are allowed.

There will be homework assignments.

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Students are encouraged to look through Dr Ott's web page for other useful
and/or interesting material.

CIS 656 fall 2001: 
Contains an ``ISP Traffic Study'' that shows what real internet data 
looks like, how to analyze it, how web surfers behave, with engineering 
implications.
Also contains a tutorial on TCP.

CIS 656 spring 2002 and fall 2002 contain measurement traces taken 
with TCPdump. It is recommended students have at least a look at
these traces.

``Papers'' contains a number of papers. Feel free to browse.
``Stationary Behavior of ideal TCP ...'' contains a proof of the 
square root formula. This is mathematically a very hard paper. 
Students interested can try to read it. The first 6 or so pages 
should be manageable to all CS students.
``ECN'' also is mathematically hard. The first few pages are a 
useful introduction.
The MPLS papers should be easy reading for most CS students.

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Book on software engineering, recommended:

Andrew Hunt, David Thomas, "The Pragmatic Programmer"

(Keep your programs clean!)

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Recreational Books, recommended. (Nothing to do with this class!):

Paul Hoffman,
The man who loved only numbers: 
The story of Paul Erdos and the search for mathematical truth.

Simon Singh and John Lynch,
Fermat's Enigma: 
The epic quest to solve the world's greatest mathematical problem.