352, Spring 2022: 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.

Week 1: circuit and packet switching, throughput and delay, layering
Weeks 2, 3: application layer: sockets, name resolution, web, email, video streaming
Week 4: transport layer: demultiplexing, error detection
Week 5: transport layer: reliable data delivery
Weeks 6, 7: transport layer: ordered delivery, flow control, congestion control
Week 8: network layer: addressing, router design
Week 9: network layer and supporting protocols: name assignment (DHCP), control messages (ICMP), address translation (NAT), hardware address resolution (ARP), modern Internet Protocols (IPv6)
Weeks 10 and 11: network layer: routing: link state routing, distance vector routing, inter-domain routing
Week 12: Internet quality of service, software-defined networking
Weeks 13, 14: link layer: addressing, error detection and correction, medium access control

Schedule

A full and detailed schedule will be released soon. This schedule is tentative and subject to change.

Major milestones: Tentatively,

problem sets are due on Wednesdays 1/26, 2/09, 3/02, 3/23, 4/13, and 4/27, at 8 pm ET;
projects are due on Wednesdays 2/02, 2/16, 3/09, 3/30, and 4/20, at 8 pm ET; and
the two mid-terms will be held in class on 2/22 and 4/08.

Videos of lectures from this offering (2022 spring) are available on Canvas for registered students. Full lecture videos of the last course offering (spring 2021) are freely and openly available from the 2021 spring offering web page. Lecture slides (pptx/pdf) from 2022 are available below.

#	Date	Topics	Readings
1	Tue 01/18	Introduction [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 1 sec 1.1, 1.2
2	Fri 01/21	Circuit and packet switching, measurement, layering [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 1 sec 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
3	Tue 01/25	Application layer: sockets, DNS basics [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 2 sec 2.1, 2.4
4	Fri 01/28	Application layer: DNS resource records; HTTP introduction [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 2 sec 2.2
5	Tue 02/01	Application layer: HTTP persistence, cookies, caching [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 2 sec 2.3, 2.7
6	Fri 02/04	Application layer: HTTP caching; SMTP [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 2 sec 2.3, 2.7
7	Tue 02/08	Application layer: Mail access protocols; Multimedia [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 9 sec 9.1, 9.2
8	Fri 02/11	Application layer: Video streaming [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 9 sec 9.1, 9.2
9	Tue 02/15	Application layer: Video streaming Transport: Demultiplexing [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 3 sec 3.1, 3.2
10	Fri 02/18	Transport layer: Demultiplexing, UDP [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 3 sec 3.3, 3,4
11	Tue 02/22	Transport layer: Reliable data delivery: The basics [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 3 sec 3.4.1
12	Fri 02/25	Transport layer: Reliable data delivery: Sliding windows [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 3 sec 3.4.2--3.4.4
13	Fri 03/04	Transport layer: Reliability (wrap-up), Ordered delivery [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 3 sec 3.5.1--3.5.4
14	Tue 03/08	Transport layer: Flow control [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 3 sec 3.5.5
15	Fri 03/11	Transport layer: Congestion control - part 1 [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 3 sec 3.6, 3.7
16	Tue 03/22	Transport layer: Congestion control - part 2 [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 3 sec 3.6, 3.7
17	Fri 03/25	Transport layer: Congestion control - part 3 [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 3 sec 3.5
18	Tue 03/29	Network layer: Addressing [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 4 sec 4.1, 4.3.1--4.3.3
19	Fri 04/01	Network layer: Router design and packet forwarding [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 4 sec 4.3.3, Chap 5 sec 5.6
20	Tue 04/05	Network layer: Router design, Protocols (part 1) [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 4 sec 4.3.3
21	Fri 04/08	Network layer: Protocols (part 2): DHCP, ICMP [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 4 sec 4.3.3--4.3.5, Chap 5 sec 5.2.1, 5.3, 5.6
22	Tue 04/12	Network layer: Protocols (part 3): ARP, NAT, IPv6 [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 4 sec 4.3, Chap 6 sec 6.4
23	Tue 04/19	Network layer: Routing protocols (part 1): Intra-domain routing [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 5 sec 5.2.2, 5.4
24	Fri 04/22	Network layer: routing protocols (part 2): Inter-domain routing [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 5 sec 5.4
25	Tue 04/26	Network layer: Quality of Service (QoS) [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 9 sec 9.5
26	Fri 04/29	Network layer: Quality of Service (QoS), continued [pdf] [pptx]	Chap 9 sec 9.5

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