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Schedule for Fall 2012


Day/DateTopics CoveredRequired Readings Remarks
Mon, 8/20/12 What is the Internet? 1.1
Wed, 8/22/12 The network edge, layered architecture 1.2, 1.5
Mon, 8/27/12 Circuit Switching vs Packet Switching, bandwidth, delay, throughput 1.3, 1.4
Wed, 8/29/12 Shannon's theorem, security considerations, history 1.6, 1.7
Mon, 9/3/12 Holiday: Labor Day
Wed, 9/5/12 TCP, Denial of Service Attacks, Counter Measures 1.6
Mon, 9/10/12 IP Spoofing and Counter Measures 1.6 Ethernet Tapping
Wed, 9/12/12 HTTP and Web Chapter 2.1, 2.2
Mon, 9/17/12 Web Caching and FTP 2.1, 2.2
Wed, 9/19/12 SMTP 2.4
Mon, 9/24/12 DNS 2.5
Wed, 9/26/12 Socket Programming, Transport Layer Protocols: UDP 2.7, 3.1-3.3
Mon, 10/1/12 Tranport Layer Protocols: Reliable Transfer 3.4
Wed, 10/3/12 TCP: Reliability, flow control, timeout estimation 3.5.3-3.5.5 Nagel
Mon, 10/8/12 Reliable Data Transfer Continued
Wed, 10/10/12 Midterm Drop Day: 10/15/12
Mon, 10/15/12 Midterm Returned, TCP Congestion Control 3.6-3.8 3.6-3.8
Wed, 10/17/12 Slow Start, Fast Recovery, Congestion Avoidance 3.6-3.8
Mon, 10/22/12 Router Assisted Congestion Control Random Early Detection
Wed, 10/24/12 IP V4 Header 4.4.1
Mon, 10/29/12 IP Addressing, Subnetting 4.4.2
Wed, 10/31/12 Subnetting, CIDR 4.4.2
Wed, 11/05/12 DHCP, NAT 4.4.2
Mon, 11/07/12 Intra-Domain Routing: Distance Vector 4.5.1-4.5.2, 4.6.1-4.6.2
Mon, 11/12/12 Intra-Domain Routing: Link State 4.5.1-4.5.2, 4.6.1-4.6.2
Wed, 11/14/12 Inter-Domain Routing, ICMP 4.6.3
Tue, 11/19/12 Thanksgiving Break
Thu, 11/21/12 Thanksgiving Holiday
Tue, 11/26/12 Link Layer Error Detection and Correction 5.1-5.2
Thu, 11/28/12 Multiple Access Protocols 5.3