Attention: Our classroom has been moved to COR B108!
Date Sections Expected Topics
Jan. 4

course outline and introduction
Jan. 7/11
CN Chapter 1
network overview
Jan. 14/18
CN Chapter 2
(Sec. 1: The theorectical basis for data communication; Sec. 5: The public switched telephone network; Sec. 7: Cable television)
PHY layer technologies, acccess, backbone

Assignment 1
Due on Jan. 28
Assignment 1 Solution
Jan. 21/25
CN Chapter 3 (Sec. 1 Data link layer design issues: 1.2-1.4; Sec. 2 Error detection and correction; Sec. 3 Elementary data link protocol: 3.2; Sec. 4 Sliding window protocols; Sec. 6 Example data link protocols)
link layer, link error control
Jan. 28/Feb. 1
CN Chapter 4 (Sec. 2 Multiple access protocols 2.1, 2.2, 2.6; Sec. 4 Wireless LANs: 4.3; Sec. 7 Data link layer switching: 7.1-7.5)
resource management and medium access control (MAC)

Assignment 2 Due on Feb. 15
Assignment 2 solution
Feb. 4
Notes
vehicle networks, Controller Area Networks (CAN), wireless access networks for machine-to-machine communications
Feb. 15/18
CN Chapter 5 (Sec. 5: Internetworking; Sec. 6: The network layer in the Internet: 6.1)
network layer
Feb. 22/25
CN Chapter 5 (Sec. 2: Routing Algorithms: 2.2-2.6) routing algorithms

Assignment 3
Due on Feb. 29
Assignment 3 Solution
Feb. 29
CN Chapter 5 (Sec. 6: The network layer in the Internet: 6.2-6.5) Internet addressing and routing protocols
Mar. 3
Midterm

Mar. 7
CN Chapter 5 (Sec. 6.3: Internet Control Protocols) ARP
Mar. 10/14/17

CN Chapter 6 (Sec. 1: The transport service: 1.1,1.2; Sec. 5 The Internet transport protocols: TCP: 5.1-5.10)
transport layer, flow control, packet error control, network congestion control

Assignment 4
Due on Mar. 24
Assignment 4 solution
Mar. 21
CN Chapter 6 (Sec. 4: The Internet trasport protocols: UDP: 4.1)
TCP variants and UDP

Mar. 24/31
CN Chapter 7 (Sec. 1: DNS; Sec. 2: Electronic Mail; Sec. 3: The world wide web)
Applications: world wide web, domain name, email

Assignment 5 Due on Apr. 4
Assignment 5 solution
Apr. 4
Review


Final Exam: Friday April 15, 2016, 19:00, HHB105



Slides artwork credits:Tanenbaum, Kurose&Ross, and many others.


"Observations for students," by R. W. Hamming (PDF)


Google talk: Van Jacobson, "A New Way to look at Networking"
Another talk by Van, "Content-centric  networking"


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