Teaching

ECE361H1F:

ECE361H1F, Computer Networks, (Fall 2009)

	Week Days	Hours	Location
Lectures:	Monday	11:00-12:00	MC252
	Wednesday	12:00-13:00	MC254
	Friday	14:00-15:00	MC254

	Week Days	Hours	Location
Office Hours:	Tuesday	15:15-16:00	BA4124
	Wednesday	14:00-15:00	BA4124


If you cannot meet during the office hours, send an email to valaee@comm.utoronto.ca to set an appointment.

Text: "Communications Networks", by A. Leon-Garcia and I. Widjaja, McGraw Hill, 2nd Ed., 2004.

Course Teaching Assistants:		office
Yashar Ghiassi	yashar@comm.utoronto.ca	BA7114
Behnam Hassanabadi	behnam@comm.utoronto.ca	BA4148
Ali Honarvar	honarvar@comm.utoronto.ca	BA4148
Sameh Sorour	samehsorour@comm.utoronto.ca	BA4148

Evaluation:
	Final Exam	50%
	Quiz 1	15%
	Quiz 2	15%
	Lab 1	5%
	Lab 2	15%

The following references may also be used for further reading:

Kurose and Ross, "Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach", Addison Wesley, 2005.
Tanenbaum, "Computer Networks", Prentice Hall 2004.
Peterson and Davie, "Computer Networks", Morgan Kaufmann, 2003.
Comer, "Computer Networks and Internets", Prentice Hall, 2001.
Stallings, "Data and Computer Communications", Prentice Hall, 2000.
Keshav, "An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking", Addison Wesley, 1997.

Course Schedule:

Week 1	Date	Topic	Reading
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---------	--------	---------------	-
Lecture 1	09/11/2009	Course Introduction	-
Week 2
Lecture 2	09/14/2009	Circuit Switching and Packet Switching	1.1, 1.2
Lecture 3	09/16/2009	OSI Layers,	2.1, 2.2
Lecture 4	09/18/2009	Connection-Oriented vs Connectionless	1.2
Week 3
Lecture 5	09/21/2009	TCP/IP Architecture	2.3
Lecture 6	09/23/2009	Routing and addressing in the Internet	2.3
Lecture 7	09/25/2009	Error Detection,	3.9
Week 4
Lecture 8	09/28/2009	Error Detection,	3.9
Lecture 9	09/30/2009	CRC	3.9
Lecture 10	10/02/2009	Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ) - S & W	5.2
Week 5
Lecture 11	10/05/2009	Go-back-N ARQ	5.2
Lecture 12	10/07/2009	Go-Back-N ARQ	5.2
Lecture 13	10/09/2009	Selective Repeat ARQ	5.2
Week 6
	10/12/2009	Thanksgiving Day
Lecture 14	10/14/2009	Performance Analysis in ARQ	5.2
Lecture 15	10/16/2009	Window Flow Control	5.3
Week 7
Lecture 16	10/19/2009	HDLC	5.4
Lecture 17	10/21/2009	Packet Switching Networks	7.1, 7.2
Lecture 18	10/23/2009	Store-and-Forward, Cut Through Switching	7.3
Quiz 1	10/23/2009	3:00-4:00pm		BA1170
Week 8
Lecture 19	10/26/2009	Datagrams and Virtual Circuits	7.3
Lecture 20	10/28/2009	Structure of packet switches	7.3
Lecture 21	10/30/2009	Routing: Flooding, Deflection Routing, Source Routing	7.4
Week 9
Lecture 22	11/02/2009	Bellman-Ford Algorithm	7.5
Lecture 23	11/04/2009	Dijkstra's Algorithm	7.5
Lecture 24	11/06/2009	ALOHA,	6.1, 6.2
Week 10
Lecture 25	11/09/2009	Slotted ALOHA,	6.2
Lecture 26	11/11/2009	CSMA	6.2
Lecture 27	11/13/2009	CSMA-CD	6.2
Week 11
Lecture 28	11/16/2009	CSMA- CD, performance study	6.2
Lecture 29	11/18/2009	LAN Standards,	6.6
Lecture 30	11/20/2009	Ethernet	6.7
Quiz 2	11/20/2009	3:00-4:00pm		BA1170
Week 12
Lecture 31	11/23/2009	Internet Protocol, MAC address,	8.2
Lecture 32	11/25/2009	ARP, IP Classful addressing	8.2
Lecture 33	11/27/2009	IP classless addressing	8.2
Week 13
Lecture 34	11/30/2009	UDP,	8.4
Lecture 35	12/02/2009	TCP	8.5
Lecture 36	12/04/2009	TCP	8.5
Week 14
Lecture 37	12/07/2009
Lecture 38	12/09/2009
Lecture 39	12/11/2009

Lab Schedule:

Date	Location Time	Sections	Teaching Assistants
Sept 22	GB251 - 3:00-6:00pm	PRA 2	Behnam	Lab 1- practice session
Sept 23	GB251 - 3:00-6:00pm	PRA 3	Behnam	Lab 1- practice session
Sept 30	GB251 - 3:00-6:00pm	PRA 1	Behnam	Lab 1- practice session
Oct 5, 5:00pm	-	PRA 1 & 2 & 3		Lab 1 Submission
Oct 6	GB251 - 3:00-6:00pm	PRA 2	Behnam - Ali	Lab 1- Demo session
Oct 7	GB251 - 3:00-6:00pm	PRA 3	Behnam - Ali	Lab 1- Demo session
Oct 14	GB251 - 3:00-6:00pm	PRA 1	Behnam - Ali	Lab 1- Demo session

Oct 20	GB251 - 3:00-6:00pm	PRA 2	Ali	Lab 2- practice session
Oct 21	GB251 - 3:00-6:00pm	PRA 3	Ali	Lab 2- practice session
Oct 28	GB251 - 3:00-6:00pm	PRA 1	Ali	Lab 2- practice session
Nov 3	GB251 - 3:00-6:00pm	PRA 2	Yashar	Lab 2- practice session
Nov 4	GB251 - 3:00-6:00pm	PRA 3	Yashar	Lab 2- practice session
Nov 11	GB251 - 3:00-6:00pm	PRA 1	Ali	Lab 2- practice session
Nov 17	GB251 - 3:00-6:00pm	PRA 2	Ali	Lab 2- practice session
Nov 18	GB251 - 3:00-6:00pm	PRA 3	Yashar	Lab 2- practice session
Nov 24, 5:00pm	-	PRA 1 & 2 & 3		Lab 2 Submission
Nov 25	GB251 - 3:00-6:00pm	PRA 1	Sameh - Yashar	Lab 2- Demo session
Dec 1	GB251 - 3:00-6:00pm	PRA 2	Ali - Sameh	Lab 2- Demo session
Dec 2	GB251 - 3:00-6:00pm	PRA 3	Ali - Yashar	Lab 2- Demo session

Tutorials: (tentative)

Date	Session	Time	Problem Set	TA	Location
Friday Sept 25	TUT 2	3:00-4:00	1.14, 1.15, 2.4, 2.6, 2.10, 2.11, 2.19, 2.20, 2.21, 2.22	Yashar	WB219
Friday Oct 2	TUT 1	3:00-4:00	1.14, 1.15, 2.4, 2.6, 2.10, 2.11, 2.19, 2.20, 2.21, 2.22	Yashar	WB219

Friday Oct 9	TUT 2	3:00-4:00	3.56, 3.59, 3.60. 3.63, 5.23, 5.25, 5.26, 5.30,	Sameh	WB219
Friday Oct 16	TUT 1	3:00-4:00	3.56, 3.59, 3.60. 3.63, 5.23, 5.25, 5.26, 5.30,	Sameh	WB219

Friday Oct 23	TUT 2	3:00-4:00	3.57, 3.58, 3.61, 3.62, 5.21, 5.31, 5.32	Sameh	WB219
Friday Oct 30	TUT 1	3:00-4:00	3.57, 3.58, 3.61, 3.62, 5.21, 5.31, 5.32	Sameh	WB219

Friday Nov 6	TUT 2	3:00-4:00	7.17, 7.18, 7.20, 7.22, 7.28, 7.29, 7.30, 7.32, 7.33	Behnam	WB219
Friday Nov 13	TUT 1	3:00-4:00	7.17, 7.18, 7.20, 7.22, 7.28, 7.29, 7.30, 7.32, 7.33	Behnam	WB219

Friday Nov 20	TUT 2	3:00-4:00	6.4, 6.5, 6.8, 6.13, 6.34, 6.35, 6.36, 6.37, 6.53	Behnam	WB219
Friday Nov 27	TUT 1	3:00-4:00	6.4, 6.5, 6.8, 6.13, 6.34, 6.35, 6.36, 6.37, 6.53	Behnam	WB219

Friday Dec 4	TUT 2	3:00-4:00	8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7(a), 8.8, 8.16,	Sameh	WB219

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