Syllabus

Syllabus

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	4	9	11	16	18	23	25	30
November	4	6	11	13	18	20	25	27
August	2	4

Detailed Schedule

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
9/2	The Domain Name System (DNS)	Section 2.5 FYI: RFC 1034, RFC 1035
9/4	Transport layer overview and socket programming (UDP)	Sections 3.1-3.3, 2.7.1 FYI: Java sockets tutorial, TCP/IP Socket in Java (book)
9/9	File transfer application (FTP) and email application (SMTP)	Sections 2.3 & 2.4 FYI: RFC 959, RFC 2821		Lab 1
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
9/16	P2P applications	Section 2.6
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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] 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 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
11/25	Attacks and defense systems (contd.)
11/27	NO CLASS - THANKSGIVING
12/2	Attacks and defense systems (contd.)
12/4	Review session