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Date
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Topic |
Reading
& Assignments |
Slides |
Week 1
|
9/3, 9/8 |
Course
overview. Communication history and Internet timeline. Basic internetworking concepts
and requirements. Packet
switching/multiplexing |
P&D Chapter 1 |
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Week 2 |
9/10, 9/15 |
Layered
architecture. Protocols and
interfaces. Information theory
overview. Communication
performance. Physical layer.
Sockets |
P&D Chapter 1 P&D
Chapter 2 |
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Week 3 |
9/17, 9/22 |
Error
detection. Link layer protocols.
Ethernet and Ethernet framing.
CSMA/CD and exponential backoff.
Wireless Ethernet. |
P&D Chapter 2 |
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Week 4 |
9/24, 9/29 |
The
Internet Protocol (IP).
Addresssing, address translation (ARP) and host configuration (DHCP).
Internet control message protocol (ICMP) |
P&D Chapter 4 Quiz
1 9/29
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Week 5 |
10/1, 10/6 |
Intra-domain
routing. Distance vector
routing. Link state routing.
Subnetting. |
P&D Chapter 4 Proj 1 assigned 10/1 |
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Week 6 |
10/8, 10/13 |
Classless
interdomain routing (CIDR). Inter-domain
routing via border gateway protocol (BGP). IPv6. |
P&D Chapter 4 |
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Week 7 |
10/15, 10/20 |
Multicast
addressing and routing.
Multicast route construction and data transmission. |
P&D Chapter 4 Quiz 2 10/20
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Week 8 |
10/22, 10/27 |
Mobile
IP. Transport layer
protocols. The user datagram
protocol (UDP). |
P&D Chapter 4 P&D Chapter 5 Proj 1 due 10/22 Proj 2 assigned 10/27 |
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Midterm
|
10/27 |
Location:
Room 1221, CS Building |
7:35pm
Ð 8:50pm
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Week 9 |
10/29, 11/3 |
Introduction
to the Wisconsin Advanced Internet lab. Simple methods for reliability. Round trip time estimation (EWMA). |
P&D Chapter 2 |
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Week 10 |
11/5, 11/10 |
The
transmission control protocol (TCP).
Header format.
State-transitions. Flow
control. |
P&D Chapter 5
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Week 11 |
11/12, 11/17 |
Congestion
control. Better round trip time estimation. TCP-Reno, TCP Vegas, Random early detection (RED) |
P&D Chapter 6
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Week 12 |
11/19, 11/24 |
Network
security. Encryption methods,
authentication protocols. Secure
shell. Remote attacks. Network security methods. |
P&D Chapter 8 Quiz 3, 11/19 Proj 2 due 11/19, Proj
3 assigned 11/19 |
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Week 13 |
12/1, 12/3 |
Network
application layer protocols.
File transfer protocol (FTP), email (SMTP) |
P&D Chapter 9
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Week 14 |
12/8, 12/10 |
Peer-to-peer
applications. The Web, Content
delivery networks. The domain
name system (DNS) |
P&D Chapter 9 Quiz 4
12/8 |
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Week 15 |
12/15 |
Network
measurement. Network traffic
characteristics. Network
management. |
P&D Chapter 9 Proj 3 due 12/15
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Final |
12/19 |
Location:
1101 Humanities |
2:15pm |
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