Syllabus

Syllabus

Date	Scope	Notes & slides	Reading Assignments	Review Questions	Labs/Quizzes
8/26	A brief overview of the Internet, its components, and performance aspects		Chapter 1, RFC 1958 FYI: RFC 3439	NA	NA
8/28	Network applications & the web		Chapter 1, Sections 2.1, 2.2, RFC 2616
9/2	The Domain Name System (DNS)		Section 2.5, RFC 1034, RFC 1035
9/4	Transport layer overview and socket programming (UDP)		Sections 3.1-3.3, 2.7.1, Java sockets tutorial, TCP/IP Socket in Java (book)
9/9	File transfer application (FTP) and email application (SMTP)		Sections 2.3 & 2.4, RFC 959, RFC 2821
9/11	Other useful Internet protocols & mechanisms: ICMP, DHCP, NATs		Section 4.4 (pp. 345-355), RFC 792, RFC 2131, RFC 2663, RFC 2131
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, 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), 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, RFC 2328, RFC 1195, EIGRP paper
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, RFC 2328, RFC 1195, EIGRP paper
10/21	Inter-domain routing (BGP)		Section 4.6.3, RFC 4271, Avi Freedman BGP tutorials (BGP1 and BGP2)
10/23	Multicast routing		Section 4.7, 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, RFC 826
10/30	Link layer & Ethernet (contd.)		Section 5.1-5.6, Spanning Tree Protocol, 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, 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