Principles of computer network design. Network design and optimization algorithms. Centralized network design, switching node location problems. Application of minimum spanning tree and shortest path algorithms to problems in network design. Static and dynamic routing algorithms. Network reliability analysis in design. Ad-hoc and cellular wireless network design. Case studies.

Cryptographic Protocol Theory, Oblivious Transfer, Digital Cash, E-Voting Applications, Identity-Based Encryption, Information Theoretic Approach in the Security of Cryptographic Protocols, Cryptographic Engineering, Crypt-analytic Tools and Attacks, Quantum Cryptography, Secure Multi-Party Computation, Error- Correcting Codes and Cryptography

Review of pipelined processor design and hierarchical memory design. Identification of parallelism in processes. Multiple diverse end functional units in a pipelined processor. Static, dynamic, and hybrid branch prediction techniques. Tomasulo Algorithm for efficient resolution of true data dependencies. Advanced data of techniques with and without speculative execution. Multiprocessor systems. Multi-threaded processors.