Textbook

The textbook for CPSC 441 is Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (Sixth Edition), by Jim Kurose and Keith Ross, Addison Wesley, 2013. Lecture material will be drawn primarily from this required textbook, as well as from some of the recent networking research literature.

Copies of this book are available in the University of Calgary Bookstore for approximately $150. If you are looking for used copies from previous students, you might have to settle for the Fourth Edition or the Fifth Edition. You can certainly survive with a slightly older edition, but the lecture materials and assigned readings in this course will be based on the Sixth Edition.

Book Web Site

The textbook has a companion Web site for registered users, providing useful information for students and instructors. The supplementary material for students includes several demos and coding examples. The supplementary material for instructors includes slides, quizzes, assignments, programming projects, and sample solutions.