Based on the proposed course timeline as of the end of September this is a start at course level learning outcomes. Currently the major bullet is the expression of the course level learning outcome and the subpoints highlight some of the topics/things I can imagine would be covered or done to achieve the learning outcome.

At the end of the course a student should be able to:

• Write and/or modify programs that use the socket API.

• Determine key properties (latency, bandwidth, jitter, error rates, topology) about a network and apply the resulting

• Use standard application structuring techniques to design and implement network based programs.

• Scaling

• Sharing

• Performance

• Compare and contrast a reliable streamed protocol (like TCP) to an unstreamed unreliable protocol and when given a problem justify the type of protocol to use.

• Compare and contrast different models for distributing data and when provided with a particular data distribution problem select and justify the choice of an appropriate distribution model.
  • Client/server (? not sure if this is part of this or not)
  • publish/subscribe, data buses

• Apply various design and implementation strategies to improve the performance of a network based application given the properties of the application and network it is to run on.
  • streaming/chunking
  • parallel operations

• Design(? might be in another learning outcome) and implement/modify programs that use various common networking interfaces.
  • socket API
  • multimedia API
  • error handling
  • lost and out of order packets.