| Week 1 Introduction |
Jan 19 |
Introduction. Overview and motivation. Resource sharing: time-division multiplexing, statistical muxing. Protocols and standards. | Peterson 1 |
| Jan 21 |
Layering, OSI reference model, encapsulation. End-to-end argument. Protocol design issues. | ||
| Week 2 Internet Basics and Intro Link Issues |
Jan 26 | Naming and Internet addressing, subnets. | Peterson 5.2.3-5.3, 5.6 |
| Jan 28 | DNS | Peterson 5.6, Problem Set 1 due | |
| Week 3 Physical Layer |
Feb 2 |
Direct Link Networks, encodings, modulation. | Peterson Ch. 3 |
| Feb 4 | Error detection and correction, CRC, Internet Checksum | ||
| Week 4 Links and Bridges |
Feb 9 |
MAC protocols, CSMA/CD, Ethernet, Addressing | |
| Feb 11 |
Bridges, Spanning Tree, Flooding/Multicasting | Peterson Ch 5.1, Homework 2 due | |
| Week 5 Internetworking |
Feb 16 |
Switching vs routing. Switching architectures. | Peterson 4.1, 4.4 | Feb 18 |
ARP, IP. The best effort service model. IP header structure. | Remaining parts of Peterson Ch. 5 |
| Week 6 Internetworking and IP |
Feb 23 |
IP delivery review, options and encapsulation. ICMP, path MTU discovery and traceroute operation | |
| Feb 25 | IP Addressing. Forwarding. LPM forwarding algorithm. IP delivery, layer 3/tag switching. | ||
| Week 7 IP Multicast |
Mar 2 | IP multicast model, multicast forwarding, link-layer support, IGMP | Multicast Intro | Mar 4 | Internet Multicast forwarding and routing. Address allocation/use. |
| Week 8 IP Routing |
Mar 9 | Routing protocols: distance vector vs link-state routing, DV problems | |
| Mar 11 | Intra-domain routing (RIP, OSPF) | Peterson 4.2 | |
| Week 9 Global Internetworking |
Mar 16 |
DUAL, Inter-domain routing, BGP, CIDR, IPv6 intro. | Article on addressing/CIDR | Mar 18 | Mid-term exam (in evening, 5-6:30pm in 1 Pimentel) |
| Week 10 Transport and Reliable Delivery |
Mar 30 |
Transport introduction. Port numbers, service models, UDP. Intro to reliability | Peterson 3.5, 6.1, 6.2 | Apr 1 |
Intro to TCP. Flow control vs. congestion control. Congestion collapse. Window-based and rate-based congestion control. | Peterson Ch. 8 |
| Week 11 Congestion and TCP |
Apr 6 |
Congestion control model, packet scheduling and buffer management, FIFO, FQ, RED. Congestion control taxonomy, fairness and effectiveness. Intro to TCP congestion control. Additive-increase/multiplicative decrease. Fairness and Efficiency. | |
| Apr 8 |
More on TCP congestion control. Special Q&A session with Ken Lindahl, (aka ``network guy'', one of the persons who runs the UCB Network.) | Peterson Ch.6, | |
| Week 12 More TCP, and Higher-Layer Protocols and Implementation | Apr 13 |
More TCP. Slow start. Fast retransmit. Fast recovery. Connection establishment, TCP, TCP state diagram, client/server. | Homework 3 due |
| Apr 15 | TCP wrap-up. Remote procedure call, data representation, stub generators. Implementation techniques: events, lookup maps, connection management, queues, interrupts, user/kernel partitioning, API. | Peterson 7.1, Ch.2, Project 1 due | |
| Week 13 Telephony Nets & ATM Networks |
Apr 20 |
Intro to telephone network. Switching & signaling. Cellular Telephone Networks | |
| Apr 22 | ATM, Cell Switching, IP/ATM and IP/Sonet, AAL5 | ||
| Week 14 Traffic Management and QoS |
Apr 27 | Quality of service. Service interfaces. Traffic characterization and admission control. | Peterson Ch. 9 |
| Apr 29 | RSVP and Int-Serv. Differentiated services, scheduling. | Week 15 QoS in IP & Security |
May 4 | Finish up QoS, scheduling, and IntServ/DiffServ IETF models. Introduction to computer security. Authentication and privacy, block and stream cyphers, public key crypto, DH-exchange, IPSec, algs: DES, MD5, SHA1, RC4. | Peterson 7.2-7.3 |
| May 6 | Finish up security. Comprehensive review. | ||
| Finals Week Finals |
May 21 | Final Exam, 12:30-3:30pm |