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 freely available 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.

[1] D. Bentley, Current & Emerging Computing Technology. Available: https://opentextbc.ca/comptech/  (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

[2] O. Bonaventure, Computer Networking: Principles, Protocols and Practice, 3rd ed. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium: Université catholique de Louvain, 2019. Available: https://inl.info.ucl.ac.be/CNP3 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

[3] D. Bourgeois, “Information systems for business and beyond,” 2019, Ch. 5. Available: https://bus206.pressbooks.com/chapter/chapter-5-hardware/ (CC BY).

[4] W. Cai, C. Lee, K. Chang, F.-H. Hsu, Y.-L. Hwang, and C.-Y. Tsai, “TRAP: A three-way handshake server for TCP connection establishment,” Applied Sciences, vol. 6, no. 11, p. 358, 2016. Available: https://doi.org/10.3390/app6110358 (CC BY).

[5] M. Kirkpatrick, OpenCSF Project, “Architectures,” OpenCSF, James Madison University. Available: https://w3.cs.jmu.edu/kirkpams/OpenCSF/Books/csf/html/Architectures.html (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

[6] “Learn Cisco IP addressing and subnetting,” n.d. Available: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/routing-information-protocol-rip/13788-3.html (CC BY-SA).

[7] L. Peterson and B. Davie, Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, 5th ed., Elsevier, 2012. Available: https://github.com/SystemsApproach/book (CC BY).

[8] Our World in Data, “Internet,” n.d. Available: https://ourworldindata.org/internet (CC BY).

[9] L. Systems, “Building networks: When to run fiber, Cat 6 or 6A, DAC cables, and Cat 8,” Lawrence Systems, Aug. 2021. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMf8ZDDyH5A (CC BY-SA).

[10] R. Tolboom, Computer Systems Security: Planning for Success. Available: https://web.njit.edu/~rt494/security/  (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).