Major Topics

• Layering
• Socket Programming
• Routing/Scalability
• Internet Protocol (IP)
• Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
• TCP/UDP
• Peer-to-Peer (P2P)
• Domain Name System (DNS)
• Apps (HTTP, SMTP, ...)
• MAC/PHY Issues
• Wireless/802.11

Additional Possible Topics

• Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
• Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)
• Middleboxes
• Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV)

Schedule

This lists the important dates, topics and events for the class. Bold dates are dates when there are lectures. Italic dates are dates when there was no lecture, but important events happened nonetheless.

For dates with lecture, brief lecture notes and the corresponding sections in the Peterson-Dave book are listed. The reading not required, but might be helpful.

January 25th	No class on account of snow
January 27th	Project 0 assigned Review syllabus Layering in networking and OSI model Intro to socket programming: create/destroy with socket()/close() start TCP client with connect() start TCP server with bind(),listen(),accept() send/receive TCP data with send()/recv() send/receive UDP data with sendto()/recvfrom() Section 1.3 [Network Architecture] (4th Ed and 5th Ed) brief lecture notes
February 1st	Review layering from last time Real packet headers: Ethernet, IP, TCP/UDP More socket programming: using structs to read/write header information in a packet using select()/poll() for asynchronous handling of multiple sockets brief lecture notes
February 3rd	Scaling wires (via repeaters, hubs, switches, bridges, etc.) Section 3-3.2.1 [Packet Switching] (4th Ed) brief lecture notes
February 4th	Project 0 due
February 8th	Project 1 assigned Spanning Tree Protocol Section 3.2.2 [Spanning Tree Algorithm] (4th Ed) brief lecture notes
February 10th	Introduction to routing Distance Vector routing Section 3.3 [Routing] (5th Ed), Section 4.2 [Routing] (4th Ed) brief lecture notes
February 15th	No class on account of snow
February 17th	Link state routing Section 3.3 [Routing] (5th Ed), Section 4.2 [Routing] (4th Ed) brief lecture notes
February 22nd	Project 1 due Internet Protocol: header deep dive, fragmentation Section 3.2 [Simple Internetworking/IP] and 4.1 [Global Internet/BGP] (5th Ed), Section 4.1 [Simple Internetworking/IP] and 4.3 [Global Internet/BGP] (4th Ed) brief lecture notes
February 23rd	Project 2 assigned
February 24th	Internet Protocol: fragmentation cont'd, addressing, subneting Section 3.2 [Simple Internetworking/IP] and 4.1 [Global Internet/BGP] (5th Ed), Section 4.1 [Simple Internetworking/IP] and 4.3 [Global Internet/BGP] (4th Ed) brief lecture notes
February 29th	Guest Lecture by Eric Jeney DNS P0/P1 Review Section 9.3 [DNS] (5th Ed), Section 9.1.3 [DNS] (4th Ed) brief lecture notes
March 2nd	Internet Protocol: subnetting cont'd, ARP Section 3.2 [Simple Internetworking/IP] and 4.1 [Global Internet/BGP] (5th Ed), Section 4.1 [Simple Internetworking/IP] and 4.3 [Global Internet/BGP] (4th Ed) brief lecture notes
March 7th	Midterm 1
March 9th	Internet Protocol: CIDR, aggregation Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Section 3.2 [Simple Internetworking/IP] and 4.1 [Global Internet/BGP] (5th Ed), Section 4.1 [Simple Internetworking/IP] and 4.3 [Global Internet/BGP] (4th Ed) brief lecture notes
March 11th	Project 2 due
March 14th	Spring break
March 16th	Spring break
March 21st	Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) cont'd Reliable transmission (sequence #s, stop-and-wait, sliding window) Section 4.1 [Global Internet/BGP] and 2.5 [Reliable Transmission] (5th Ed), Section 4.3 [Global Internet/BGP] and 2.5 [Reliable Transmission] (4th Ed) brief lecture notes
March 22nd	Project 3 assigned
March 23rd	Reliable transmission cont'd (more sliding window) Section 2.5 [Reliable Transmission] (4th and 5th Ed) brief lecture notes
March 28th	Guest Lecture by Eric Jeney Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) abstraction header state digram Nagle's algorithm Section 5.2 and 6.3 [TCP Congestion Control] (4th and 5th Ed) brief lecture notes
March 30th	Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) flow control retransmission congestion collapse Section 5.2 and 6.3 [TCP Congestion Control] (4th and 5th Ed) brief lecture notes
April 4th	Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) congestion control/avoidance AIMD (Additive Increase, Multiplicative Decrease) slow start fast recovery Section 5.2 and 6.3 [TCP Congestion Control] (4th and 5th Ed) brief lecture notes
April 6th	Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) wrap-up Section 5.2 and 6.3 [TCP Congestion Control] (4th and 5th Ed) brief lecture notes
April 8th	Project 4 assigned Project 3 due
April 11th	Midterm 2
April 13th	Ethernet MAC (CSMA/CD, Exponential Backoff, Jamming) Checksums (CRC, 1s complement) Section 2.4.2 [Internet Checksum Algorithm], 2.4.3 [Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)], 2.6.2 [Ethernet Access Protocol] (4th and 5th Ed) brief lecture notes
April 18th	Checksums (CRC, 1s complement) Section 2.4.2 [Internet Checksum Algorithm], 2.4.3 [Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)] (4th and 5th Ed) brief lecture notes
April 20th	HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) REpresentative State Transfer (REST) Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Section 9.1.2 [World Wide Web (HTTP)], 9.1.3 [Just the subsection on "A Generic Application Protocol (REST)"] (5th Ed) brief lecture notes
April 22nd	Project 4 due
April 25th	Guest Lecture by Ramakrishna Padmanabhan Overlay Networks Alibi Routing Introduction to p2p networks Section 9.4 [Overlay Networks] (5th Ed) brief lecture notes
April 27th	Guest Lecture by Ramakrishna Padmanabhan Review of p2p networks (Napster, Gnutella) Distributed Hash Tables (Chord) BitTorrent Section 9.4 [Overlay Networks] (5th Ed) brief lecture notes
April 28th	Project 5 assigned
May 2nd	Guest Lecture by Ramakrishna Padmanabhan Pingin' in the Rain (paper) Internet ping timeouts (paper)
May 4th	OpenFlow and SDN Wireless MAC Section 2.7 [Wireless] (5th Ed) brief lecture notes
May 9th	Wireless wrap up Final Exam Review Section 2.7 [Wireless] (5th Ed) brief lecture notes
May 11th	Project 5 due
May 16th	Final Exam from 4-6p