This course will present students with the latest advances in computernetworking technology and protocols such as IPv6. It will explore the aforementioned research area by studying, critically analyzing and discussing, summarizing, and presenting selected first-rate published research articles from IEEE.Students will perform critical review of papers from conferences and journals and make presentations while enhancing their hands-on experience of novel techniques in published literature. Topics include: Self-similarity in internet traffic, introduction to network and web science, network interface design, switching networks, wireless ad hoc networks, game theory applications in networks, network economics, network measurement, and network security threats.