Schedule

This is a tentative schedule and will change.

Grading details #

Class Schedule #

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

Week 1- Aug 26-30: #

• 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
• Lab (Setting up Google Cloud VMs)

Week 2 - Sept 4-6: #

No class on Sept 2 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
• Lab: Examples and Socket Programming Slides

Week 3 - Sept 9-13: #

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
• Lab: Examples and Socket Programming Slides

Week 4 - Sept 16-20: #

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

Week 5 - Sept 23-27: #

Reading assignment - Chapter 3-3.2.5, Basic IP

• Switching Slides
• Lab

Week 6 - Sept 30-Oct 04: #

• Reading assignment Chapter - 3.2.6-3.2.9

• Spanning Tree, Loop detection Slides
• Addressing Slides
• Lab

Week 7 - Oct 07-11: #

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

Week 8 - Oct 14-16: #

No class on Oct 18 Reading assignment - Chapter 3.3

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

Week 9 - Oct 21 - Oct 25 #

Reading assignment - Chapter 4.1

• BGP Slides
• Lab

Week of Oct 28 - Nov 01 #

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
• Lab

Week of Nov 13 - Nov 15 #

Reading assignment - Chapter 6.3

• TCP Congestion control, Congestion avoidance Slides
• HTTP Slides
• DNS, Email Slides

Week of Nov 18 - Nov 22 ( Exam 2) #

Reading assignment - Chapter 9.1

• Network Security, Symmetric Key Slides
• Network Security, Asymmetric Key Slides
• Security - Lampson Talk
• IPv6 Slides
• IPv6 Jeff Houston Talk
• NDN Slides

Week of Nov 25 - Nov 29 #

No class on 27-29

• Nov 25 - Demo

Week of Dec 2 - Dec 4 #

• Review

Dec 09 #

• Final