For the most part, I will be following the class notes. If you look at the material before it is discussed in class, you will get much more out of the class discussion.
Test dates are unlikely to change. The topics and assigned reading may be adjusted during the semester.
C - Comer book, P - Peterson/Davie book, T - Tanenbaum book.
| Date | Topic | Reading | Assignments |
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| Sept 3 | Introduction, Overview | T: 1, C: 1, P: 1 | W1 out |
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| Sept 8 | Layering, OSI reference model, standards, performance | P1 out | |
| Sept 10 | Physical Layer: Theory (Fourier, Shannon, Nyquist) | P: 2, T:2 (except 2.7) | |
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| Sept 15 | Physical Layer: multiplexing (TDM, FDM), encoding schemes, clock synchronization | W1 due, W2 out | |
| Sept 17 | Physical media: twisted pair, coax, fiber, etc. | ||
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| Sept 22 | Data Link Layer: Framing, Error detection and correction | P: 3.1-3.5, T: 3 | |
| Sept 24 | Sliding window protocols | P1 due | |
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| Sept 29 | Media Access: Ethernet, token ring | P: 3.6-3.9, T: 4 (except 4.2.7, 4.3.2, 4.4) | W2 due |
| Oct 1 | device driver basics | P2 out | |
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| Oct 6 | Network Layer: packet switching, routing, datagrams vs. VCs | P: 4, T: 5.1-5.2, 5.6 | W3 out |
| Oct 8 | Spanning tree and source routing bridges | P: 5.1, T: 4.4, 5.4 | |
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| Oct 13 | Fall Break | ||
| Oct 15 | Internetworking: IP addressing, ICMP, ARP, IP packet format | C: 4-7, P 5.2-5.3, 5.7, T: 5.5 (except 5.5.10) | P2 due (Oct 18) |
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| Oct 20 | IP unicast routing: Host Routing, CIDR, RIP, OSPF | C: 8-10, 14-16, P: 5.5, 6.1, 6.2, T: 7.7.5, 6 | W3 due |
| Oct 22 | Midterm Exam | ||
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| Oct 27 | IP unicast routing: BGP | W4 out | |
| Oct 29 | IP multicasting, multicast routing | C: 17 | |
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| Nov 3 | End-to-end protocols: UDP, TCP | C: 12-13, | P3 out |
| Nov 5 | Transport issues: retransmission strategies, roundtrip time estimation, congestion avoidance and control. | ||
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| Nov 10 | DNS | ||
| Nov 12 | RPC | C: 22 | W4 due |
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| Nov 17 | Security: IPSec, firewalls, socks | C: 28 | P3 due |
| Nov 19 | Compression | ||
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| Nov 24 | Applications: Telnet, SMTP, MIME, FTP, NFS | C: 23-25 | W5 out |
| Nov 26 | Thanksgiving | ||
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| Dec 1 | WWW: HTTP 1.0 (deployed today) and 1.1 (coming soon) | P4 out | |
| Dec 3 | ATM | ||
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| Dec 8 | No Class | W5 due | |
| Dec 12 | No Class | P4 due | |
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| Dec 20 | Final Exam - 9AM. | ||