| Date
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Scope
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Notes & slides
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Reading Assignments
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Review Questions
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Labs/Quizzes
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| 8/26 |
A brief overview of the Internet, its components, and performance aspects |
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Chapter 1, RFC 1958, RFC 3439 |
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NA
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| 8/28 |
Network applications & the web |
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Chapter 1, Sections 2.1, 2.2, RFC 2616 |
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| 9/2 |
The Domain Name System (DNS) |
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Section 2.5, RFC 1034, RFC 1035 |
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| 9/4 |
Transport layer overview and socket programming (UDP) |
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Sections 3.1-3.3, 2.7.1, Java sockets tutorial |
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| 9/9 |
File transfer application (FTP) and email application (SMTP) |
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Sections 2.3 & 2.4, RFC 959, RFC 2821 |
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| 9/11 |
Other useful Internet protocols & mechanisms: ICMP, DHCP, NATs |
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Section 4.4 (pp. 345-355), RFC 792, RFC 2131, RFC 2663, RFC 2131 |
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| 9/16 |
P2P applications |
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Section 2.6 |
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| 9/18 |
Principles of reliable data transport |
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Section 3.4 |
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| 9/23 |
A closer look at TCP |
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Sections 3.5, 2.7.2 |
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| 9/25 |
TCP flow and congestion control |
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Sections 3.6, 3.7, RFC 5681, RFC 6582 |
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| 9/30 |
IPv4 protocol and Internet routers (IP addresses & subnets, router architecture) |
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Sections 4.1-4.3, 4.4 (up to p. 345), RFC 1812 |
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| 10/2 |
Routing (shortest path) algorithms |
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Section 4.5 |
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| 10/7 |
Intra-domain rouging protocols (OSPF, IS-IS, EIGRP) |
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Sections 4.6.1-2, RFC 2328, RFC 1195, EIGRP paper |
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| 10/9 |
Inter-domain routing (BGP) |
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Section 4.6.3, RFC 4271, Avi Freedman BGP tutorials (BGP1 and BGP2) |
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| 10/14 |
Review session |
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| 10/16 |
IN CLASS MIDTERM |
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| 10/21 |
Multicast routing |
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Section 4.7, RFC 2236 (Sections 1-3), RFC 3376 (Sections 1-6), RFC 4601 (Sections 1-3), RFC 4607 (Sections 1-6) |
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| 10/23 |
Link layer & Ethernet |
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Section 5.1-5.6, Spanning Tree Protocol, RFC 826 |
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| 10/28 |
Link layer & Ethernet |
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Section 5.1-5.6, Spanning Tree Protocol, RFC 826 |
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| 10/30 |
Wireless & WiFi |
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Sections 6.1-6.3 |
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| 11/4 |
Cellular networks & mobility |
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Sections 6.4-6.8 |
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| 11/6 |
IPv6 |
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Section 4.4.4, RFC 2460 |
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| 11/11
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| 11/13 |
Security - A cryptography primer |
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Sections 8.1-8.3 |
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| 11/18 |
Security protocols |
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Sections 8.4-8.8 |
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| 11/20 |
Attacks and defense systems |
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| 11/25 |
Attacks and defense systems (contd.) |
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| 11/27 |
NO CLASS - THANKSGIVING
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| 12/2 |
Attacks and defense systems (contd.) |
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| 12/4 |
Review session |
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