Open Educational Resources (OER)

We would like to thank the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) for funding this textbook development project through the Open Educational Resources Grant Program (2023-2025). 

This course is composed of a wide range of free online materials. In particular, the course content relies heavily on the following sources, which are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 as a derivative or under less restrictive licenses, as noted below.

• “Computer Networking : Principles, Protocols and Practice, 3rd Edition” by Olivier Bonaventure (2019), Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)
• “Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), Chapter 5” by David Bourgeois
• “History of Telecommunications” by Scholarly Encyclopedia Community International Telecommunication Union (via World Bank)
• OurWorldInData.org/internet (CC BY) OpenCSF Project (https://w3.cs.jmu.edu/kirkpams/OpenCSF/Books/csf/html/Architectures.html).
• Building Networks: When to Run Fiber, Cat 6 or 6A, DAC Cables, and Cat 8 by Lawrence Systems, August 2021 (CC-BY-SA)
• Current & Emerging Computing Technology by Don Bentley
• Computer Networks: A Systems Approach by Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie (Elsevier, 2012) Source: https://github.com/SystemsApproach/book.
• Learn Cisco IP Addressing and Subnetting (CC-BY-SA)
• Computer Systems Security: Planning for Success by Ryan Tolboom
• Transmission Control Protocol (Wikipedia, last updated 21 Sept 2023)
• TRAP: A Three-Way Handshake Server for TCP Connection Establishment” Applied Sciences 6, no. 11: 358. https://doi.org/10.3390/app6110358. Fu-Hau, Yan-Ling Hwang, Cheng-Yu Tsai, Wei-Tai Cai, Chia-Hao Lee, and KaiWei Chang, 2016. ; MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article, licensed under CC-BY.