This schedule and syllabus are preliminary and likely to change. Please check this page periodically.
| Date | Topics | Read | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 01/06 | Foundation (ppt) | P&D: 1 | DARPANet, E2E |
| Tue 01/13 | Links, ATM and Routers(ppt) | P&D: 2.1-2.5, 3.3 | optionally CRC_TCP_chksum |
| Tue 01/20 | IP Packet Switching(ppt) | P&D: 3.1, 3.4, 4.1.1-4.1.4, 4.3.1-4.3.2 | Cerf74 |
| Tue 01/27 | Transport Protocols (ppt) | P&D: 5.1-5.2 | TCP_Attacks, SYN Cookies |
| Tue 02/03 | Congestion Control (Cont'ed) | P&D: 6.1-6.4 | Jacobson88, Floyd93 |
| Tue 02/10 | TCP Performance Models (ppt) | - | Mathis97 |
| Tue 02/17 | Routing (ppt) | P&D: 4.2, 4.3.3-4.3.4 | Paxson96, Labovitz98 |
| Tue 02/24 | Mid-term | ||
| Tue 03/03 | Packet Scheduling & Traffic Shaping (ppt) | - | (Project proposal) |
| Tue 03/10 | Spring break | No class | |
| Tue 03/17 | Quality of Service & MPLS(ppt) | P&D: 4.5, 6.5, optionally Wang: 2-4 | Shenker95 (presenter: Xuelian) RealTimeApp (presenter: Josh Stachel) |
| Tue 03/24 | Network Security(ppt) | P&E: 8 | Intrusion (presenter: Asim) SIFF(presenter: Sumedha) |
| Tue 03/31 | Domain Name System (DNS) & Naming (ppt) | P&D: 9.1.3 | DNS_measurement (presenter: Josh Geiger) Layered_naming (presenter: Pratik) optionally CoDNS, I3 |
| Tue 04/07 | P2P & Content Distribution Networks (CDNs)(ppt) | P&D: 9.4 | BitTyrant (presenter: Yinglin) Chord (presenter: Saman) optionally CoBlitz, Pastry |
| Tue 04/14 | Project presentation(ppt) | Project report due: 10:00pm on 4/17 | |
| Thu 04/21 | Final (+ separate preliminary exams for CS Ph.D. students) |