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Tentative plan
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Date
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Book Sections
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Topics and Concepts
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Assessments Due
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Overview
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2/8 |
1.1, 1.2 |
Building blocks of the Internet, Video. End-hosts,
client/server/peer, connection/connectionless service |
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2/10 |
1.3, 1.6 |
The network core: Packet switching vs. circuit
switching, Virtual circuit, Delay, Packet loss, Ping/Tracert,
MAC basics |
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2/15 |
1.5, 1.7, 2.1 |
IPSs/backbone/stubs. The protocol stack, Introduction
to Applications
Help on Project 1 |
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Applications
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2/15-2/17 |
2.2, 2.4 |
HTTP, SMTP |
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2/22 |
2.6 |
Peer-to-peer file sharing: Napster, Gnutella,
KaZaA; expanding ring search, neighbors, overlay network, graph
theory concepts |
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2/24 |
2.5 |
Discussion of project 2 |
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3/1 |
2.5 |
DNS |
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3/3 |
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DHT |
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Transport I
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3/3 |
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Principles of Transport: multiplexing/ports, UDP
vs.TCP, reliable transport |
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3/3 |
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Reliable transport: stop-and-wait v1: ACK, NACK,
drops, duplicates; Stop-and-wait v2: sequence number; pipelining. |
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3/8 |
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Reliable transport: Go-Back-N |
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3/8 |
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Go-Back-N |
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Transport II
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3/10 |
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go-back-N, selective retransmit |
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3/15 |
3.7 |
TCP: overview; mechanics: header, ACK/sequence
numbering, cumulative/selective ACK; detecting losses: RTT and
triple duplicate ACK, exponential backoff; |
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3/15, 3/16 |
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TCP: congestion control: congestion window, additive
increase multiplicative decrease; |
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3/22-3/24 |
3.7, 3.5.6 |
TCP: congestion control: slow-start and time-out;
connection management: SNY/FIN/RST, the SYN-attack. |
HW 2 |
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Routing
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4/5-4/7 |
4.4, 4.4.1 |
Routing overview, IPv4, Fragmenting, ICMP, NATs, DHCP, addressing hierarchical routing/subnets |
Project
2 |
4/12 |
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IPv6 |
HW 3 |
4/12 |
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link-state vs distance vector |
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4/14-4/19 |
4.5.1, 4.6.2, 4.6.3 |
Link-state: OSPF: Link-State
announcement, Hello, reliable flooding, bidirectionality, Dijkstra's Algorithm |
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4/21 |
4.5.2, 4.6.1 |
Distance vector: Dynamic programming/contractions,
convergence, count to infinity, poison return |
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4/26 |
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Project 3 Discussion |
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4/28 |
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Hierarchical routing |
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MAC
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5/3 |
5.1, 5.2 |
link layer services |
HW4 |
5/5-5/10 |
5.3 |
MAC - ALOHA, CSMA |
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5/12 |
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MAC - Self-learning, ARP |
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5/17 |
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review of homeworks |
Project
3 HW5 |
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Final Exam
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