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CSC 486 — REAL-TIME NETWORKING (FORMERLY GAM 490) (CUR-236)

CSC 486 — REAL-TIME NETWORKING (FORMERLY GAM 490) is a DePaul University catalog course in Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media. 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.

Summary 🟢 ✓

  • Resource type: course
  • College / school: Computer Science
  • College/School: Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
  • Curriculum section: Engineering / Computer Science / CDM
  • Catalog: CSC 486
  • Last Verified: 2026-07-01

Course access

  • Access: 🟢 Green — Open or routine access
  • Rationale: No formal prerequisites listed in catalog description; open to any student meeting university registration rules.
  • Prerequisites: None listed in catalog description

Verification

Catalog description

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.

Resource relevance

Relevant applied coursework per catalog description review (May 2026).

Notes

Catalog course key: CSC 486.

Catalog context

  • Recent schedule: Not offered in the queried registrar terms