Courses

COMS E6181: Advanced Internet Services (Spring 2008)

In-depth survey of protocols and algorithms needed to transport multimedia information across the Internet, including audio and video encoding, multicast, quality-of-service, voice-over-IP, streaming media and peer-to-peer multimedia systems. Includes a semester-long programming project.

COMS 4118: Operating Systems I (Spring 2007)

Design and implementation of operating systems. Topics include process synchronization and interprocess communication, memory management, virtual memory, interrupt handling, processor scheduling, device management, I/O, and file systems. Hands-on study of Linux operating system design and kernel internals. Science requirement: partial fulfillment.

Series of lectures, combined with homework assignments that are primarily focused on programming. Students will gain hands-on experience and will apply the concepts that are presented and explained in the lectures.