Computer Networks

Computer Networking - A Top Down Approach Featuring the Internet





Text book:



The required textbook for the course is Computer Networking - A Top Down Approach Featuring the Internet Second Editionby James Kurose and Keith Ross (Addison Wesley). It is available in the CMU Bookstore. Almost all the material that we will cover is in the textbook, although we may cover it in a different order.
There are two recommended texts which are useful references (especially if networking becomes your career). You can get the best price on them by ordering from an on-line bookstore.

• TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1 : The Protocols by W. Richard Stevens.
• Unix Network Programming : Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI (Volume 1) by W. Richard Stevens.

Date	Prof	Topics	Announcements	Readings
M 8/26	MHB	Introduction, Network Infrastructure, Delays,Throughput, Bandwidth lecture1.ps		Chapter 1
W 8/28	MHB	Packet-switching, Circuit-switching, Protocol Stacks, Layeringlecture2.ps
M 9/2
W 9/4	MHB	Sockets (TCP, UDP) lecture3.ps	Proj 1 Assigned	2.1, 2.6-2.8
M 9/9	SS	Applications (Security, DNS) (pdf, ppt)	HW 1 Assigned	7.1-7.3, 7.5, 7.8.2, 2.5
W 9/11	SS	Applications (DNS, Web) (pdf, ppt)		2.2-2.4
M 9/16	SS	Web Optimizations (CDN, caching) (pdf, ppt)		2.9
W 9/18	SS	Transport Protocols (pdf, ppt)	HW 1 Due	3.1-3.5
M 9/23	SS	TCP - congestion control (pdf, ppt)	Proj 1 Due	3.6
W 9/25	SS	More TCP (pdf, ppt)	HW 2 Assigned Proj 2 Assigned	3.7
M 9/30	SS	TCP and Routers (pdf, ppt)
W 10/2	XA	Multimedia (ppt)		6.1-6.4
M 10/7	MHB	IP addressing, IP forwarding tables, ARP, DHCP lecture12.ps	HW 2 Due	4.1, 4.4.1, 4.4.2, 5.4, 4.4.6
W 10/9
M 10/14	MHB	Routing: RIP and OSPF lecture13.ps	Proj 2 Due	4.2,4.5.1
W 10/16	MHB	AS Hierarchy, BGP lecture14.ps	Proj 3 Assigned Friday	4.3, 4.5.2
M 10/21	MHB	Subnetting, CIDR, IPv4 lecture15.ps		4.4.3, 4.4.4
W 10/23	MHB	IPv6, tunneling, NAT, VPNs, IP over ATM, ICMP lecture16.ps	HW3 assigned	4.4.7, 4.7, 5.9.5, 4.4.5
M 10/28	US	Physical Layer, Link layer basics ( pdf)		5.1-5.4
W 10/30	JL	Ethernet, Bridging/Switching (pdf)	HW 3 Due Thursday	5.5, 5.6, 5.8-5.10
M 11/4	MHB	QOS basics, Delay guarantees, Leaky buckets lecture19.ps		6.5-6.6
W 11/6	MHB	WFQ, Intserv, RSVP, Diffserv lecture20.ps	Proj 3 Due Friday	6.7 - 6.9
M 11/11	JW	Network security: Firewalls, IPSec, DoS (ppt, pdf)	Proj 4 Assigned	Chapter 7
M 11/13	SS	P2P (centralized, flood, routing, hash) (pdf, ppt)		2.9.3
M 11/18	SS	Mobile/Wireless (Link, IP & TCP) (pdf, ppt)	HW 4 Assigned	5.7,4.9
W 11/20	SS	Multicast (pdf, ppt)		4.8
M 11/25	MHB	Networking Futures, Powerpoint file	HW 4 Due
W 11/27
M 12/2	MHB	Course Overview	Proj 4 Due
W 12/4