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This course is designed for undergraduate and early graduate students and focuses on space networks as well as the software and protocol foundations of wireless and mobile networks. A major theme of the course will be emerging agentic network protocols. In addition, content distribution and edge-computing overlays will be included, as they play a critical role in maintaining application performance. Within the space networking component, the course will cover communications over Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) satellites, as well as interplanetary communication systems. For wireless networks, the focus will be on software-defined 5G and emerging 6G architectures. The course will also cover caching strategies, content distribution networks (CDNs), and edge-computing overlays, which are essential for supporting modern networked applications. Finally, the course will introduce agentic network protocols, an important enabling technology for AI systems.