Syllabus

Syllabus & (tentative) Schedule

Schedule at-a-glance

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Lab	Quizz	Exam	No class

	Tu.	Th.	Tu.	Th.	Tu.	Th.	Tu.	Th.	Tu.	Th.
August	26	28
September	2	4	9	11	16	18	23	25	30
October		2	7	9	14	16	21	23	28	30
November	4	6	11	13	18	20	25	27
December	2	4

FINAL EXAM: Wednesday December 17, 2014, 3:30-5:30pm in TBA.

Detailed Schedule & Syllabus

Date	Scope	Reading Assignments	Notes & slides	Review Questions	Labs/Quizzes
8/26	A brief overview of the Internet, its components, and performance aspects	Chapter 1, RFC 1958 FYI: RFC 3439 (especially Section 5)	Lecture 1	NA	NA
8/28	Network applications & the web	Chapter 1, Sections 2.1, 2.2 FYI: RFC 2616	Lecture 2	Review Questions for lecture 2 ( pdf, docx)
9/2	The Domain Name System (DNS)	Section 2.5 FYI: RFC 1034, RFC 1035, A useful discussion of the need for and use of GLUE records	Lecture 3	Review Questions for lecture 3 ( pdf, docx)	Quizz 1 and solution
9/4	Transport layer overview and socket programming (mostly UDP, but we'll quickly cover TCP as well)	Sections 2.7.1, 3.1-3.3 FYI: Java sockets tutorial, TCP/IP Socket in Java (book)	Lecture 4	Review Questions for lecture 4 ( pdf, docx)
9/9	File transfer application (FTP) and email application (SMTP)	Sections 2.3 & 2.4 FYI: RFC 959, RFC 2821, A discussion of the difference between active and passive FTP	Lecture 5	Review Questions for lecture 5 ( pdf, docx)	Lab 1 and solution
9/11	Other useful Internet protocols & mechanisms: ICMP, DHCP, NATs	Section 4.4 (pp. 345-355) FYI: RFC 792, RFC 2131, RFC 2131, RFC 2663	Lecture 6 (portrait), (landscape)	Review Questions for lecture 6 ( pdf, docx)
9/16	P2P applications	Section 2.6	Lecture 7 (portrait), (landscape)	Review Questions for lecture 7 ( pdf, docx)	Quizz 2
9/18	Principles of reliable data transport	Section 3.4
9/23	A closer look at TCP	Sections 3.5, 2.7.2
9/25	TCP flow and congestion control	Sections 3.6, 3.7 FYI: RFC 5681, RFC 6582			Lab 2
9/30	IPv4 protocol and Internet routers (IP addresses & subnets, router architecture)	Sections 4.1-4.3, 4.4 (up to p. 345) FYI: RFC 1812
10/2	Routing (shortest path) algorithms	Section 4.5			Quizz 3
10/7	Intra-domain rouging protocols, i.e., OSPF, IS-IS, EIGRP	Sections 4.6.1-2, EIGRP paper FYI: RFC 2328, RFC 1195
10/9	Review session	-	-	-	-
10/14	IN CLASS MIDTERM
10/16	Intra-domain rouging protocols, i.e., OSPF, IS-IS, EIGRP (contd.)	Sections 4.6.1-2, EIGRP paper FYI: RFC 2328, RFC 1195
10/21	Inter-domain routing (BGP)	Section 4.6.3 FYI: RFC 4271, Avi Freedman BGP tutorials (BGP1 and BGP2)			Lab 3
10/23	Multicast routing	Section 4.7 FYI: RFC 2236 (Sections 1-3), RFC 3376 (Sections 1-6), RFC 4601 (Sections 1-3), RFC 4607 (Sections 1-6)
10/28	Link layer & Ethernet	Section 5.1-5.6, Spanning Tree Protocol FYI: RFC 826			Quizz 4
10/30	Link layer & Ethernet (contd.)	Section 5.1-5.6, Spanning Tree Protocol FYI: RFC 826
11/4	Wireless & WiFi	Sections 6.1-6.3			Lab 4
11/6	Cellular networks & mobility	Sections 6.4-6.8
11/11	IPv6	Section 4.4.4 FYI: RFC 2460
11/13	Security - A cryptography primer	Sections 8.1-8.3			Quizz 5
11/18	Security protocols	Sections 8.4-8.8
11/20	Attacks and defense systems	Section 8.9 Overview: Arbor Networks worldwide infrastructure security report (2014) DoS & DDoS: Attacks: Inferring Internet Denial-of-Service Activity, RFC 4948, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks/tools
11/25	Attacks and defense systems (contd.)	DoS & DDoS: Defenses: RFC 2827 (BCP 38), RFC 3704 (BCP 84), RFC 5635, Sink Holes (NANOG presentation), Customer-Triggered Real-Time Blackholes (NANOG presentation) DNS (Attacks & Defenses): RFC 3833, RFC 4778			Lab 5
11/27	NO CLASS - THANKSGIVING
12/2	Attacks and defense systems (contd.)	Routing Attacks: An Attack Tree for the Border Gateway Protocol, RFC 4272, Defending against BGP man-in-the-middle attacks Defenses: RFC 5082, Defending against BGP man-in-the-middle attacks, An overview of BGPSEC			Quizz 6
12/4	Review session	-	-	-	-