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Revision as of 13:24, 24 August 2014
Syllabus
Schedule at-a-glance
Legend
| Lab | Quizz | Exam | No class |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tu. | Th. | Tu. | Th. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August | 26 | 28 | ||
| September | 2 | 4 | 9 | 11 |
| 16 | 18 | 23 | 25 | |
| 30 |
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 |
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| 9/2 | The Domain Name System (DNS) | Section 2.5 FYI: RFC 1034, RFC 1035 |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 10/21 | Inter-domain routing (BGP) | Section 4.6.3 FYI: RFC 4271, Avi Freedman BGP tutorials (BGP1 and BGP2) |
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| 10/23 | Multicast routing | Section 4.7<br/? 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 |
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| 10/30 | Link layer & Ethernet (contd.) | Section 5.1-5.6, Spanning Tree Protocol FYI: RFC 826 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 11/25 | Attacks and defense systems (contd.) | ||||
| 11/27 | NO CLASS - THANKSGIVING | ||||
| 12/2 | Attacks and defense systems (contd.) | ||||
| 12/4 | Review session |
