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Position. Data Communications is an obligatory under-graduate course in Computer Science at the University of Helsinki. The course is lectured once a year (in finnish), in Spring semester (period IV).
Objectives. The course is an introduction to the network technologies and data communication services. The goal is to understand the structure of the Internet and the functionality of the basic Internet protocols. The main focus is on the hierarchical TCP/IP protocol stack.
Course Book. Kurose J.F., Ross K.W.: Computer Networking, A Top-Down Approach Addison-Wesley, 4th ed. 2008 (Also the previous 3rd edition (2005) can be used.)
The Usenet newsgroup for this course is hy.opiskelu.tktl.tili.
If you are taking this lecture course, please send e-mail to the lecturer, and then register to one of the small groups . See details from page "Registration for Courses and Exams".
Notice that the exercise groups for this course start already in the first week and there will be an English group (and Problems in English) only if it is necessary.
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