Course Info

CSC 486: Real-Time Networking (Formerly GAM 490)

Applied real-time networking fundamentals. Topics include low-level TCP/UDP socket programming, serialization of data for network transportation, deterministic data flow and queuing in applications, dynamic configuration and session communications. Students will explore issues related to performance-based networking in different topologies: client/server and peer to peer. Students will create and build real-time applications using different protocols (TCP, UDP, RUDP) with active network simulation of loss, delayed, corrupted and out of order data packets. Architecture of different bandwidth compression and estimation techniques will be investigated. Research of wireless ad hoc networks such as Bluetooth and ZigBee will be explored.

CSC 461 and (SE 456 or SE 450) are prerequisites for this class.

Spring 2024-2025


Section 941

Class number 35157

  • Meeting dates: 3/29/2025 - 6/13/2025
  • Meeting time: Th 5:45PM - 9:00PM
  • Location: CDM 00224 at Loop Campus
  • Instructor: Andre Berthiaume | View syllabus


Spring 2023-2024

Spring 2022-2023

Spring 2021-2022

Spring 2020-2021