01:198:352 Fall 2022 (sec 1,2,3): Internet Technology Syllabus

Textbooks

The official textbook for this course is

Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, 7th edition, by James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross.

As further background, we suggest

Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, 5th edition, by Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie.
Computer Networking: Principles, protocols, and practice by Olivier Bonaventure. The third edition of this textbook is openly and freely available.
TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols by W. Richard Stevens.

The instructors will provide additional reading materials as needed for each lecture's topics.

Syllabus

This syllabus is tentative and subject to change.

Lectures 1--2: Circuit and packet switching, throughput and delay, layering, sockets
Lectures 3--7: application layer: name resolution, web, email, video streaming
Lecture 8: transport layer: demultiplexing, error detection
Lectures 9--12: transport layer: reliable data delivery, ordered delivery, flow control
Lectures 13--14: transport layer: congestion control
Lecture 15--16: network layer: addressing, router design
Lectures 17--19: network layer and supporting protocols: name assignment (DHCP), control messages (ICMP), address translation (NAT), hardware address resolution (ARP), modern Internet Protocols (IPv6)
Lectures 20--22: network layer: link state routing, distance vector routing, inter-domain routing, SDN, Internet quality of service
Lectures 23--26: security over the Internet

Schedule

This schedule is tentative and subject to change.

Major milestones: Tentatively,

problem sets are due on Fridays 9/30, 11/04, and 12/09, at 8 pm ET;
projects are due on Fridays 9/23, 10/14, 10/28, 11/18, and 12/02, at 8 pm ET; and
the two mid-terms will be held in class on Fridays 10/07 and 11/11.

Videos of lectures from this course (fall 2022) will be available on Canvas ~~for registered students~~ and are also listed below. Lecture slides (pptx/pdf) from fall 2022 are available below.

Full lecture videos from earlier course offerings are also available.
Videos from spring 2022 may be accessed using the Box folder containing recorded videos. Note, this requires RU login.
Videos from spring 2021 are freely and openly available from the spring 2021 course web page.

#	Date	Topics	Readings
1	Tue 09/06	Introduction [video] [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 1 sec 1.1, 1.2
2	Fri 09/09	Circuit and packet switching, layering [video] [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 1 sec 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
3	Tue 09/13	Measurement; Application layer: sockets [video] [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 2 sec 2.1, 2.4
4	Fri 09/16	Application layer: Name Resolution (DNS) [video] [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 2 sec 2.4
5	Tue 09/20	Application layer: Web [video] [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 2 sec 2.2
6	Fri 09/23	Application layer: Web (part 2) [video] [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 2 sec 2.2
7	Tue 09/27	Application layer: E-mail [video] [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 2 sec 2.3
8	Fri 09/30	Application layer: Video streaming [video] [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 9 sec 9.1, 9.2
9	Tue 10/04	Application layer: Video streaming (part 2) Transport layer: Introduction [video] [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 9 sec 9.1, 9.2; Chap 3 sec 3.1, 3.2
	Fri 10/07	Mid-term exam 1
10	Tue 10/11	Transport layer: Demultiplexing [video] [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 3 sec 3.2, 3.3
11	Fri 10/14	Transport layer: Error detection, reliable data delivery [video] [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 3 sec 3.4.1
12	Tue 10/18	Transport layer: Reliability: Pipelined delivery [video] [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 3 sec 3.4.2--3.4.4
13	Fri 10/21	Transport layer: Reliability wrap-up [video] [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 3 sec 3.5.1--3.5.4
14	Tue 10/25	Transport layer: Ordered delivery [video] [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 3 sec 3.5.6
15	Fri 10/28	Transport layer: Flow control [video] [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 3 sec 3.5.5
16	Tue 11/01	Transport layer: Congestion control (part 1) [video] [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 3 sec 3.6, 3.7
17	Fri 11/04	Transport layer: Congestion control (part 2) [video] [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 3 sec 3.6, 3.7
18	Tue 11/08	Transport layer: Wrap-up Network layer: Introduction [video] [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 3 sec 3.7, 3.5.6
	Fri 11/11	Mid-term exam 2
	Tue 11/15	Class canceled
19	Fri 11/18	Network layer: Addressing [video] [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 4 sec 4.1, 4.3.3
20	Wed 11/23	Network layer: Router design and packet forwarding [video] [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 4 sec 4.2
21	Tue 11/29	Network layer: LPM, Protocols [video] [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 4 sec 4.3.1, 4.3.2, 4.3.4, Chap 5 sec 5.6
22	Fri 12/02	Network layer: ICMP, NAT [video] [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 4 sec 4.3.4, Chap 5 sec 5.6, 5.2
23	Tue 12/06	Network layer: Routing [video] [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 5 sec 5.2
24	Fri 12/09	Network layer: Routing (part 2) [video] [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 5 sec 5.4
25	Tue 12/13	Network layer: QoS, wrap-up [video] [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 9 sec 9.5

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