Your final grade for the course will be based on the following weights:
| Lecture | Date | Topics | Notes | Readings |
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| Overview | ||||
| 1 | Tue 08/28 | Course overview; The Internet overview, network edge [pdf] [ppt] |
No lab session today | Chapter 1.1 - 1.2; Quiz1-1 |
| 2 | Thu 08/30 | The Internet overview, the network edge, and the network core [pdf] [ppt] |
Chapter 1.2 - 1.3; Quiz1-2 | |
| Tue 09/04 | Lab 1: conversion problems |
Lab1 Assignment | ||
| 3 | Tue 09/04 | The network core; delay, loss, throughput; [pdf] [ppt] |
Chapter 1.4 - 1.5; Quiz1-3 | |
| 4 | Thu 09/06 | Layered service model; Security; Historical review; [pdf] [ppt] |
Homework 1 due 09/11, hand in to TA during the lab session. | Chapter 1.5 - 1.7; Quiz1-4, Homework 1 |
| Network applications, socket programming | ||||
| Tue 09/11 | Lab 2: practice with some tools |
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| 5 | Tue 09/11 | Principles of network applications; Example network applications: Web and HTTP [pdf] [ppt] |
Chapter 2.1 - 2.2 Quiz2-1 | |
| 6 | Thu 09/13 | Example network applications: Web and HTTP, Email [pdf] [ppt] |
Chapter 2.2, 2.3 Quiz2-2 | |
| Tue 09/18 | Lab 3: Wireshark and HTTP |
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| 7 | Tue 09/18 | Example network applications: DNS [pdf] [ppt] |
Chapter 2.4 Quiz2-3 | |
| 8 | Thu 09/20 | P2P principles; P2P example: bit-torrent; Socket programming (UDP) [pdf] [ppt] |
Homework 2 due 09/25, hand in to TA during the lab session. | Chapter 2.5, 2.7 Quiz2-4, Homework 2 |
| Transport layer | ||||
| Tue 09/25 | Lab 4: A simple dynamic web server |
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| 9 | Tue 09/25 | Transport layer services; Multiplexing and Demultiplexing; UDP, Principles of reliable data transfer [pdf] [ppt] |
Chapter 3.1-3.3 Quiz3-1 | |
| 10 | Thu 09/27 | Principles of reliable data transfer [pdf] [ppt] |
Chapter 3.4 Quiz3-2 | |
| Tue 10/02 | Midterm review |
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| 11 | Tue 10/02 | Principles of reliable data transfer [pdf] [ppt] |
Chapter 3.4 Quiz3-3 | |
| 12 | Thu 10/04 | TCP: reliable data transfer, flow control [pdf] [ppt] |
Chapter 3.5 Quiz3-4, Homework 3 | |
| Tue 10/09 | Midterm review |
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| 13 | Tue 10/09 | TCP connection management; Principles of Congestion Control [pdf] [ppt] |
Chapter 3.5 - 3.6 Quiz3-5 | |
| 14 | Thu 10/11 | TCP Congestion Control [pdf] [ppt] |
Chapter 3.7 Quiz3-6 | |
| Network core --- the network layer data plane | ||||
| Tue 10/16 | Discussion of Homework 3, no late homework will be accepted |
Homework 3 due | ||
| 15 | Tue 10/16 | Network layer overview; Forwarding [pdf] [ppt] |
Chapter 4.1 - 4.2 Quiz4-1 | |
| Thu 10/18 | Midterm; Close book; Chapter 1-3, everything covered in class |
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| 16 | Tue 10/23 | Forwarding; IP Protocol [pdf] [ppt] |
Chapter 4.2 - 4.3 Quiz4-2 | |
| 17 | Thu 10/25 | IP Protocol; Software-defined networking (SDN) [pdf] [ppt] |
Chapter 4.3 - 4.4 Quiz4-3 | |
| 18 | Tue 10/30 | IP6; Software-defined networking (SDN) [pdf] [ppt] |
Chapter 43 - 4.4 Quiz4-4 | |
| Network core --- the network layer control plane | ||||
| 19 | Thu 11/01 | Introduction; Routing protocol (Dijkstra algorithm) [pdf] [pptx] |
Chapter 5.1 - 5.2 Quiz5-1 | |
| 20 | Tue 11/06 | Routing protocols (Distance vector) ; Intra-AS routing [pdf] [pptx] |
Chapter 5.2 - 5.3 Quiz5-2 | |
| 21 | Thu 11/08 | Inter-domain routing --- long lived BGP [pdf] [pptx] |
Chapter 5.4 Quiz5-3 | |
| 22 | Tue 11/13 | BGP and SDN [pdf] [pptx] |
Chapter 5.4 - 5.5 | |
| Thu 11/15 | 2nd midterm, in class, close book |
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| Tue 11/20 | Fall Break |
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| Thu 11/22 | Happy Thanksgiving! |
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| Link layer | ||||
| 23 | Tue 11/27 | Link layer overview, error detection, MAC protocols [pdf] [pptx] |
Chapter 6.1 - 6.2 Quiz6-1 | |
| 24 | Thu 11/29 | MAC protocols [pdf] [pptx] |
Chapter 6.3 Quiz6-2 | |
| 25 | Tue 12/04 | LAN [pdf] [pptx] |
Chapter 6.4 | |
| 26 | Thu 12/06 | LAN, link virtualization [pdf] [pptx] |
Chapter 6.4 - 6.5 Homework 5 | |
| Tue 12/11 | Study Days |
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| Tue 12/18 | Final Exam (Fall 2018 Examination Schedules) |
10:30am - 12:30am, TTL 305A | ||
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