Prerequisite: ECE 642.

Description:Theories for design, analysis and evaluation of high speed networks. Scalability, performance, and issues related to local area, metropolitan and wide area networks (LANs, MANs and WANs). 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 internetworking. Video, imaging and multimedia applications. Software issues, robustness and applications. Selected topics in current research areas in high speed computer networks.