Date | Sections | Expected Topics |
Jan. 4 |
course outline and introduction |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Apr. 4 |
Review |
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Final Exam: Friday April 15, 2016, 19:00, HHB105 |
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Slides artwork credits:Tanenbaum, Kurose&Ross, and many others. | ||
"Observations for
students," by R. W. Hamming (PDF) |
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Google
talk: Van Jacobson, "A New Way to look at Networking" Another talk by Van, "Content-centric networking" |
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Want
to learn more? CENG461/ELEC514 |