In the fall of 2004 I will be teaching a course in 
``advanced networking''. (Wed 6:00 - 9:05). 
In the fall 2004 NJIT program the course is listed as
CIS786-103, Wed 6:00 - 9:05 pm ``QoS in the Internet''.
(QoS stands for ``Quality of Service'').

For more information, go to 

http://web.njit.edu/~ott/Adv.Netw.F.04/course_descr.txt

Students will be exposed to the TCP/IP implementation in Linux.

A student of mine who now works at Microsoft told me that of all the 
things he did not learn at NJIT, actual implementation of TCP/IP is
the one that would have been most useful.

Students will also learn to run NS (Network Simulator). NS is freeware 
from ISI. It has become a de facto standard for simulation of TCP/IP
etc.

Further, a few special topics will be covered. Possible topics are 
Differentiated Serices, Long Range Dependence and Heavy Tailed behavior, 
ECN, DoS attacks, Traceback, etc.

There will be a project. Every student will become superuser in one 
of the Linux Computers in my lab (GITC 4325), make a simple change to
the TCP/IP code, and use a sniffer (e.g. TCPdump) to show the behavior 
changed.

A by-product is that students will learn to recompile the Linux kernel.


Teun Ott.