| Day/Date | Topic Covered | Required Readings/Handouts | Optional Readings/Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon (8/31/09) | What is the Internet? | How big is the Internet? | |
| Wed (9/2/09) | Why is the Internet the way it is? | Chap 1 | The design
philosophy of the DARPA Internet protocols A classic paper from Sigcomm'88 |
| Mon (9/7/09) | Physical layer | 2.1-2.2, 1.5 | |
| Wed (9/9/09) | Data link layer
Framing |
2.3 | |
| Mon (9/14/09) | Data link layer
Error detection |
2.4 |
When the
CRC and TCP checksum disagree Paper from Sigcomm'00 |
| Wed (9/16/09) | Data link layer Reliability/flow control |
2.5 | |
| Mon (9/21/09) | Data link layer
Medium access Switching | 2.8, Chapter
3 | |
| Wed (9/23/09) | Data link layer Switching (contd.) | Chap 3 | |
| Mon (9/28/09) | Network layer IP header format, addressing | 4.1 | |
| Wed (9/30/09) | Network layer Subnetting, CIDR | Handout
with an example of subnetting and CIDR 4.3.1-4.3.2 |
|
| Mon (10/5/09) | Network
layer Causes of growth in routing tables, Longest-prefix match | Survey
and taxonomy of IP address lookup algorithms Paper from IEEE Network Magazine'01 | Latest multibit-trie implementation used by the routers (Focus on Section 4) Tree Bitmap: Hardware/Software IP Lookups with Incremental Updates Paper from ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review (CCR), 2004 |
| Wed (10/7/09) | Network layer Intra-domain routing, Mobile IP |
4.2 | |
| Mon (10/12/09) | Network layer Inter-domain routing |
4.3.3 | |
| Wed (10/14/09) | Network layer ARP, DHCP, tunneling |
4.1 | |
| Mon (10/19/09) | Network layer MPLS, NAT, Carrier-grade NAT | 4.5, 4.3.5 Understanding Carrier Grade NAT | Columbia University Technical Report on a better
alternative to Carrier-Grade NAT, 2008 A Better Approach than Carrier-Grade-NAT |
| Wed (10/21/09) | IPv6, Internet2, ICMP | 4.3.5, 4.1.7 | An article
on IPv6 deployment and (failure of) Government mandate An article on Internet2 |
| Mon (10/26/09) | Midterm exam | ||
| Wed (10/28/09) | Guest lecture on wide-area link-layer technologies, MPLS usage, carrier-grade NAT | Speaker: Johan Graham, Global NOC Engineering, Indiana University | |
| Mon (11/2/09) | Transport layer
UDP, TCP connection establishment | 5.1-5.2.3 | End-to-end
arguments in system design A classic paper from Sigcomm'84 |
| Wed (11/4/09) | Guest lecture on
IPv6 Title: "If we fail, people die: Sense, Security, and Nonsense about IPv6" | Speaker: Gregory Travis, Co-Director,
Adanced Network Management Lab (ANML), Indiana University Presentation | |
| Mon (11/9/09) | Transport layer Reliability, Flow control, Issues with TCP header |
5.2.4, 5.2.8 | |
| Wed (11/11/09) | Transport layer
Timeout estimation algorithms, Triggering transmission at sender | 5.2.6, 5.2.5, 5.2.7 | |
| Mon (11/16/08) | Transport layer Congestion control, Router assisted congestion avoidance | 6.3, 6.4 | Random
early detection gateways for congestion avoidance A classic paper from Transactions of Networking'93 |
| Wed (11/18/09) | Application layer/other
DNS | 9.1 | Andrew's presentation |
| Mon (11/23/09) | Application layer/other
SMTP, HTTP, CDNs | 9.2.1-9.2.2 | |
| Wed (11/25/09) | Thanksgiving break | ||
| Mon (11/30/09) | Application layer/other
SSH, PGP, TLS (SSL), VPNs, Firewalls | 8.4 | |
| Wed (12/01/09) | Application layer/other
DES, RSA, SHA-1, Diffie-Hellman key exchange | 8.1-8.3 |