Calendar

The following is our intended calendar with topics, slides (as they become available) and reference material. Notes with the format “KR7 #” refer to chapters/sections of the class textbook Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, 7th Ed., J. Kurose and K. Ross.


DateTopicReadings/Notes
Wed 9/25Introduction: Overview / Brief history of the Internet [PDF]KR7 1.1,1.7
Mon 9/30Edge, core and a bunch of layers [PDF]KR7 1.2-1.5
Wed 10/02Application layer: Principles and a few protocols / Socket Programming [PDF]KR7 2.1-2.3, 2.7
Mon 10/07Domain Name System [PDF]KR7 2.4
Wed 10/09Content distribution: P2P, Video and CDNs [PDF]KR7 2.5, 2.6
Mon 10/14Transport Layers, UDP [PDF]KR7 3.1-3.3
Wed 10/16Principles of Reliable Data Transfer [PDF]KR7 3.4
Mon 10/21TCP [PDF]KR7 3.5
Wed 10/23Prof. at ACM IMC 2019
Mon 10/28Congestion Control and TCP [PDF]KR7 3.6,3.7
Wed 10/30Midterm (in class)Up to 3.7
Mon 11/04Network layer / Inside a Router [PDF]KR7 4.1-2
Wed 11/06The Internet protocol [PDF]KR7 4.3,4.4
Mon 11/11Routing algorithms [PDF]KR7 5.1-5.2
Wed 11/13Prof. out
Mon 11/18Internet Routing ]PDF]KR7 5.3-5.4
Wed 11/20ICMP, SNMP and SDNs [PDF]KR7 5.6-5.7
Mon 11/25Link Layer: Broadcast [PDF]KR7 6.1-6.3
Wed 11/27Link Layer: Switched LANs and more [PDF] [pptx]KR7 6.4-6.7
Mon 12/02Wireless and Cellular [PDF]KR7 7.1-7.8
Wed 12/04Security - Guest lecturer Prof. Yan Chen / Class review [PDF]KR7 8.1-8.4
Fri 12/13FinalCumulative