Schedule

This is a tentative schedule and will change.

Grading details #

Class Schedule #

Aug 19 -

• Introduction, Social Contract, Expectations - Link to Mural Slides
• Books - Peterson & Davie, Computer Networks - a systems approach.
• Labs - Every Thursday, in class

Week of Aug 20 - Aug 26 #

• Reading assignment for week 1 - Introduction, Chapter 1.2 - 1.5

• Introduction - Terminologies, Circuit vs Packet Switching, Layers, Architectures vs Protocols Slides
• Network Performance, Bandwidth/Delay, Jitter Slides

• Thu, Aug 22 - Lecture
• Thu, Aug 24 - Lecture and Lab (Setting up Google Cloud VMs)

Week of Aug 27 - Sep 02 #

Reading assignment - Chapter 2-2.5

• Links, Encoding, Frames, Point to point links, Byte Stuffing, Error detection Slides
• Reliable Delivery, Stop-n-wait, sliding window Slides
• Examples and Socket Programming Slides

• Thu, Aug 29 - Lecture
• Thu, Aug 31 - Lecture and Lab

Week of Sep 03 - Sep 09 (Programming Assignment 1 due) #

Reading assignment - Chapter 2.6-2.7

• Links, Encoding, Frames, Point to point links, Byte Stuffing, Error detection Slides
• Reliable Delivery, Stop-n-wait, sliding window Slides
• Examples and Socket Programming Slides

• Tue, Sep 05 - Lecture
• Thu, Sep 07 - Lecture and lab
• Thu, Sep 09 - PA1 due

Week of Sep 10 - Sep 16 #

• Ethernet, Wifi, CSMA-CA/CD, Transmitter algorithm, Collision avoidance, Slides
• Link Layer Recap Slides

• Tue, Sep 12 - Lecture
• Thu, Sep 14 - Lecture and Quiz
• Thu, Sep 14 - PA1 due

Week of Sep 10 - Sep 16 #

Reading assignment - Chapter 3-3.2.5, Basic IP

• Switching Slides

• Tue, Sep 12
• Thu, Sep 14

Week of Sep 17 - Sep 23 (Programming Assignment 2 due) #

• Reading assignment Chapter - 3.2.6-3.2.9

• Spanning Tree, Loop detection Slides
• Addressing Slides

• Tue, Sep 19 - Lecture
• Thu, Sep 21 - Lecture and Lab

Week of Sep 24 - Sep 30 ( Exam 1) #

• ARP, DHCP Slides
• NAT, ICMP, Routing vs Switching Slides

• Tue, Sep 26 - Recap
• Thu, Sep 28 - Exam 1
• Sat, Sep 30 - PA2 due

Week of Oct 01 - Oct 07 (Programming Assignment 3 due) #

Reading assignment - Chapter 3.3

• Routing Slides
• Routing, Issues with Scaling Slides
• BGP Slides

• Tue, Oct 03 - Lecture
• Thu, Oct 05 - Lab

Week of Oct 08 - Oct 14 #

Reading assignment - Chapter 4.1

• BGP Slides

• Tue, Oct 10 (Holiday)
• Thu, Oct 12 - Lab

Week of Oct 15 - Oct 21 #

Reading assignment - 5.1, 5.2.1-5.2.5

• MPLS, End to End communication
• UDP, TCP Slides [UDP]
• TCP Flow Control, Three way handshake Slides

• Tue, Oct 17 - Lecture
• Thu, Oct 19 - Lecture and Lab
• Sat, Oct 21 - PA3 due

Week of Oct 22 - Oct 28 #

Reading assignment - Chapter 6.3

• Tue, Oct 24 - Lecture and Recap

Week of Oct 29 - Nov 04 ( Exam 2) #

Reading assignment - Chapter 9.1

• • TCP Congestion control, Congestion avoidance Slides

• Tue, Oct 31 - Lecture and Lab
• Thu, Nov 02 - Exam 2

Week of Nov 05 - Nov 11 #

Reading assignment [DNS]

Reading assignment HTTP

• HTTP Slides
• DNS, Email Slides

• Tue, Nov 07 - Lecture
• Thu, Nov 09 - Lecture and Lab

Week of Nov 12 - Nov 18 #

Reading assignment - Chapter 8.1-8.2

• Network Security, Symmetric Key Slides
• Network Security, Asymmetric Key Slides

• Tue, Nov 14 - Lecture
• Thu, Nov 16 - - Lecture and Lab

Week of Nov 19 - Nov 25 (Exam 3) #

• Tue, Nov 21 - Exam 3
• Thu, Nov 23 (Holiday - Nov 22-24)

Week of Nov 26 - Dec 02 #

• Demo

• Mon, Nov 27 - PA4 Due
• Mon, Nov 27- 10AM - PA4 Poster due

• Email Cassaundra Trapp at ctrapp@tntech.edu your poster PDF.

• Tue, Nov 28 - 11-1PM - PA4 Demo - Bruner 208 Template
• Thu, Nov 30 - Last day of class