Quick Information

Please submit Submission to last assignmentLab 3 is cancelled.
~~Lab 3 is cancelled.~~
~~Assignment 5 (Routing) due date is changed to July 25.~~
~~Lab 2 due date is changed to July 23.~~
~~July 17: Assignment 5 is posted (Routing).~~
Final Examination is: July 30, 9-11am.
~~July 10: Lab 2 is posted (due date is July 20).~~
~~July 9: The deadline for the "Assignment IP Forwarding" is extended to July 12".~~
~~July 9: Due to recent Internet/Power outage, assignments/labs/lecture slides are posted with delay.~~
~~No class on Monday, July 2 (Republic Day Holiday).~~

Starting July 3, we work under the new weekly schedule:

Mon Tue Wed Thu

9am-12noon J. Liebeherr
(lecture) J. Liebeherr
(lecture) A. Frank
(lecture) A. Frank
(lecture)

2-4pm J. Liebeherr
(contact) J. Liebeherr
(contact) A. Frank
(contact) A. Frank
(contact)

The following assignments and labs are active. Please note the dates:

July 4: Lab report for Lab 1 (Wireshark Lab).

July 6: Assignment on "IP addresses and subnetworks".

July 9: Assignment on "Scientific methods in computer science".
~~Lab 1 is posted on the Dropbox (start: June 25, Due: July 4).~~
The first problem set is due on Monday, June 25. Copy your solutions into the Dropbox folder "assignment 1". Please do not upload before 9am (on June 25), since the solutions are readable by everyone.

The course begins on Monday, June 18 (6 weeks lectures).

A tentative course syllabus is available here .

~~Lecture slides for first lectures are available below as Powerpoint (PPT) files.~~

General Information

Advances in packet switched computer networks have enabled the creation of the Internet as a global information infrastructure. As the Internet increasingly becomes an integral part of ubiquitous and critical services, understanding the technology of the Internet and learning how to improve its properties is a fundamental endeavor that will have an enormously beneficial impact on all facets of the economy and society at large. This course will cover principles and advanced research topics of computer networking, that enable to conduct research in computer networking.

Lectures

Week	Topics	Slides	Reading
Week 1 (Jun 18-22)	Switching Networks Layered Protocols Architecture Case Study: Public Telephone Network Case Study: Internet Case Study: ATM Case Study: Switched Ethernet TCP/IP Networking Example	PPT PPT PPT PPT PPT PPT PPT (Part 1), PPT (Part 2)	[Kurose/Ross (3rd), Chp. 1], [Peterson/Davie, Chp. 3.1] [Kurose/Ross (3rd), Chp 4.1], [Peterson/Davie, 1.3], [Stallings, Chp. 15] [Kurose/Ross, Chp. 5.9] [Kurose/Ross, Chp. 5.5-5.6] [Liebeherr-Chp0, complete]
Week 2 (Jun 25-29)	IP Addresses Data Link Layer Protocols Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)	PPT PPT PPT	[Liebeherr-Chp0, Sec.4] [Liebeherr-Chp2, Sec. 1] [IBM Textbook, 2.1 and 2.4] [Liebeherr-Chp2, Sec. 2] [IBM Textbook, 3.4]
Week 3 (July 1-5)	Internet Protocol (IP) ICMP IP Forwarding	PPT PPT PPT	[Liebeherr-Chp 2, Sec. 3], [IBM Textbook, 3.1] [Liebeherr-Chp 3], [Kurose/Ross, Chp. 4.3-4.4]
Week 4 (July 9-13)	Intradomain Routing RIP OSPF BGP	PPT PPT PPT	[IBM Texbook, 5.1-5.4], [Kurose/Ross, Chp. 4.5] [IBM Texbook, 5.6], [Kurose/Ross, Chp. 4.6] [IBM Texbook: 5.8-5.9], [Kurose/Ross, Chp. 4.6]
Week 5 (July 16-20)	Transport Protocols TCP I TCP II NAT	PPT PPT PPT PPT	[Kurose/Ross, Chp. 3.1-3.2], [IBM Texbook: 4.1-4.2] [Kurose/Ross, Chp. 3.2-3.7], [IBM Texbook: 4.3] [IBM Texbook: 3.1.7], [Comer: Chp. 23.15-23.19]
Week 6 (July 23-27)	DHCP DNS Router Architecture Network Models Network Traffic	PPT PPT PPT PPT PPT	[IBM Texbook: 3.6, 3.7], [Comer: Chp. 23.11-23.14] [Comer: Chp. 23.11-23.14], [IBM Texbook, 12] [Liebeherr-Chp 3]

Labs

Labs	Start	Lab Report Due	Topic
Lab 1	June 25	July 4	Capturing Traffic with Wireshark (more Instructions are posted in "labs" folder on Dropbox.)
Lab 2	July 10	~~July 20~~July 23	Socket Programming (more Instructions are posted in "labs" folder on Dropbox.)
Lab 3	Cancelled.	Cancelled.	Analysis and Shaping of Video Traffic

Workshops

Workshops are 2-hour hands-on exercises on topics related to the lecture and graduate student skills.

Date	Topic	Notes
July 3	Latex	See Latex samples in Dropbox folder.
July 10	Programming with Java	Instructions
July 23	Drafting the Research Topic Statement	Instructions (researchtopic.tex, fancyheadings.sty)

Assignments

Date given	Due Date	Problem set
June 18	June 25	Finding Literature
June 25	~~July 1~~ July 6	IP addresses and subnetworks (Solutions)
June 29	~~July 9~~July 12	Scientific Methods in Computer Science
July 9	July 16	IP forwarding (Solutions)
July 16	~~July 23~~July 25	Routing (Solutions)
-	July 30	Submit Draft of Research Topic Statement (see Workshop)

Reading List

Textbooks

[Kurose/Ross] refers to Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (3rd Edition), Jim Kurose and Keith Ross, Addison-Wesley, 2005.

[Comer] refers to Computer Networks and Internets, 5th Edition. Douglas Comer, Pearson, 2009.

[Peterson/Davie] refers to Computer Networks: A Systems Approach (3rd Edition), Larry Peterson, Bruce Davie, Morgan-Kaufmann, 2003.

[Stallings] refers to Data and Computer Communications (5th Edition), William Stallings, 2004.

[IBM Textbook] refers to TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview, by A. Rodriguez, J. Gatrell, K. Karas and R. Peschke, IBM 2006.

[Liebeherr-Chp] refers to a collection of chapters written by J. Liebeherr (Chapter 0, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 10).

Additional Readings

Telephone Network

[PSTN-tutorial] PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) Fundamentals (IEC tutorial).

Internet

[Clark88] Clark. The Design Philosophy of the Internet Protocols, Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, Pages 106-114, September 1988.

ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode)

[ATM-tutorial] ATM Fundamentals (IEC Tutorial).

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu
9am-12noon	J. Liebeherr (lecture)	J. Liebeherr (lecture)	A. Frank (lecture)	A. Frank (lecture)
2-4pm	J. Liebeherr (contact)	J. Liebeherr (contact)	A. Frank (contact)	A. Frank (contact)