01:198:352 Fall 2024 (sec 1,2,3,4): Internet Technology Syllabus

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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.

• Fundamentals: Circuit and packet switching, network metrics, layering
• Application layer: name resolution, web, video streaming
• Transport layer: (de)multiplexing, error detection, reliability, ordering, flow control, congestion control
• Network layer: addressing, router design, supporting protocols, routing
• (if time permits) Security: cryptography, signatures, authentication, TLS

Schedule

This schedule is tentative and subject to change.

Major milestones: Tentatively,

• problem sets are due on Tuesdays 10/01, 11/05, and 12/10, at 11:59 pm ET;
• projects are due on Tuesdays 9/24, 10/15, 10/29, 11/19, and 12/03, at 11:59 pm ET; and
• the two mid-terms will be held in class on Tuesdays 10/08 and 11/12.
• Lecture quizzes are due at 11:59 pm ET the day before each lecture (Mondays and Thursdays).

Lecture slides (pptx/pdf) and videos are publicly available, listed below and also linked from Canvas.

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.
Also available publicly are the videos from spring 2021 and fall 2022.

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