RO7 4-1 NETWORK PROGRAMMING syllabus

UNIT-I

establishment and Format, Buffer sizes and limitation, standard internet services, Protocol usage by 

common internet application.

UNIT-II

Sockets : Address structures, value – result arguments, Byte ordering and manipulation function and 

related functions Elementary TCP sockets – Socket, connect, bind, listen, accept, fork and exec function,

concurrent servers. Close function and related function.

UNIT-III

TCP client server : Introduction, TCP Echo server functions, Normal startup, terminate and signal

UNIT-IV

I/O Multiplexing and socket options: I/O Models, select function, Batch input, shutdown function, poll 

function, TCP Echo server, getsockopt and setsockopt functions. Socket states, Generic socket option 

IPV6 socket option ICMPV6 socket option IPV6 socket option and TCP socket options.

UNIT-V

Elementary UDP sockets: Introduction UDP Echo server function, lost datagram, summary of UDP

example, Lack of flow control with UDP, determining outgoing interface with UDP.

UNIT-VI

Elementary name and Address conversions: DNS, gethost by Name function, Resolver option, 

Function and IPV6 support, uname function, other networking information.

UNIT-VII

IPC : Introduction, File and record locking, Pipes, FIFOs streams and messages, Name spaces, system 

IPC, Message queues, Semaphores.

UNIT-VIII

Remote Login: Terminal line disciplines, Pseudo-Terminals, Terminal modes, Control Terminals, rlogin 

Overview, RPC Transparency Issues.

TEXT BOOKS:

1. UNIX Network Programming, Vol. I, Sockets API, 2nd Edition. - W.Richard Stevens, Pearson

Edn. Asia.

2. UNIX Network Programming, 1st Edition, - W.Richard Stevens. PHI.

REFERENCES:

1. UNIX Systems Programming using C++ T CHAN, PHI.

2. UNIX for Programmers and Users, 3rd Edition Graham GLASS, King abls, Pearson 

Education

3. Advanced UNIX Programming 2nd Edition M. J. ROCHKIND, Pearson Education

Introduction to Network Programming: OSI model,Unix standards, TCP and UDP & TCP connection 

handling server process termination, Crashing and Rebooting of server host shutdown of server host.