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Master of research problems, evaluate related required to handle Big Data
throughout the Big Data process.
research works, and design a suitable
Science in research methodology as well as Finally, by completing this course,
students will be able to design and
communicate their ideas effectively
through different mediums in a
develop a Big Data solution using
Information scientifically convincing manner. The the techniques, methods, and
course starts by defining scientific
technologies introduced throughout
Technology research and identifying its essential the course.
elements, then takes the students
through a progressive journey ITE 510 - Advanced Data
through the different scientific Communication and Computer
Core Courses research phases such as problem Networks
formulation, literature review, and Credit hours: 3
methodology design. Several class Prerequisite: Graduate status
activities relevant to weekly topics
ITE 501 - Cloud Computing are planned to ensure a balance The course covers advanced
Credit hours: 3 between theory and practice. In communication networks and
Prerequisite: Graduate status doing so, students will learn methods presents in depth some topics such
for critically reading research as advanced routing protocols,
Cloud computing provides highly papers, identifying research gaps, advanced congestion control
elastic scalability in delivery of selecting interesting research topics, techniques, Quality of Service, VPN
enterprise applications. This course formulating research questions, Networks and Tunneling Protocols,
provides comprehensive knowledge planning research methodology, and network management. The
about cloud computing concepts and discussing and communicating course also covers recent research
and capabilities across various research results in a convincing work for securing networks. In
Cloud service models including way. Several research tools are addition, this course provides an
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), presented to the students such as in-depth understanding of existing
Platform as a Service (PaaS) and LaTeX, Mendeley, and SciVal through network technologies such sensor
Software as a Service (SaaS). This practical tutorial sessions. networks, MANETs, VANETs and their
course will introduce students to applications. The course also covers
basic concepts and principles of ITE 504 - Advanced Big Data new emerging networks such as
cloud computing. The students will Analytics SASE, IoT/Edge Networks, 5G and its
learn new programming paradigms Credit hours: 3 successor 6G, etc.
such as Node.js, JavaScript, REST Prerequisite: Graduate status
API and benefits and challenges CSE 511 - Advanced Ethical
as well as tradeoffs for using the The Big Data course focuses Hacking and Penetration
cloud services. The course will on managing and processing, Testing
teach students how to utilize the storing, and modeling massively Credit hours: 3
cloud services such IBM Cloud and large, versatile, continuous, and
Amazon (AWS). Other topics such as heterogeneous data retrieved from Prerequisite: Graduate status
programming models (MapReduce different sources including, for This course introduces the
and Hadoop), virtualization, storage, instance, sensors, social media, web fundamental concepts of ethical
and distributed file systems will be applications, ERP systems, mobile hacking methodology, practical
covered as well. applications, transportation systems, techniques, and ethics. The focus of
and others. Acquiring, storing, the course is to introduce students
ITE 503 - Research Methods and processing, modeling, and visualizing to the methodology and tools
Communications this data encompass various necessary in order to assess the
Credit hours: 3 methods/techniques with many security posture of the system under
Prerequisite: Graduate status challenges to be considered. The study. The course utilizes Kali-Linux
course walks the students through and many other software tools that
The main purpose of the Research the Big Data process starting from are usually used by a malicious
Methods and Communications data acquisition, and moving to hacker to study the weaknesses and
Course is to introduce students to storage, processing, analytics, and vulnerabilities of a target systems.
the process of scientific research visualization. Throughout the course
and equip them with the necessary the students will learn the concepts, In this course the students
knowledge and tools to formulate techniques, tools, and frameworks study the main phases of ethical
hacking and penetration testing,

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