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ECE 742 - High-Speed Networks

Credits: 3
Not Repeatable for Credit
Offered by Electrical and Computer Engineering

Theories for design, analysis and evaluation of high-speed networks including scalability, performance, and issues related to local area, metropolitan, and wide area networks. Includes architecture, protocols, and applications of high-speed networks; performance modeling of high-speed networks; flow control and routing; design issues for high-speed switches, interfaces, and controllers; all optical networks and their architectures; examples of high-speed computer networks and Internet working; video, imaging, and multimedia applications; software issues, robustness, and applications; and selected topics in current research areas in high-speed computer networks.

Equivalent to IT 834

Prerequisite(s): ECE 528 and 642, or permission of instructor.
Schedule Type: LEC
Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week: 3
Hours of Lab or Studio per week: 0

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