James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2001

CP3003:03

Internet Technology

Townsville, Cairns

Prerequisites: CP2001

26 lectures, 26 tutorials, 26 hours practicals. First semester.

Staff: Dr E Hyden, Dr G Allen.

Internetworking, network protocols and services, Socket programming, Domain Name Servers, network applications, web browser, web server, web server extension, web site architecture, security concepts: firewalls, protocols, scale and availability: load balancing, disaster recovery, web based database applications and web: architectures, writing applications, handling persistence, optimising performance, automated notifications

Learning Objectives:

  1. to have knowledge of the principles of internetworking and experience with modern network applications;
  2. to have practised simple design of web based applications.

Assessment by assignments (40%); final examination (60%).