01:198:552 Spring 2024: Computer Networks Syllabus

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Reference Materials

This course draws from a wide range of source material. The instructor will recommend specific reading material for each week, most of which is publicly available. Others will be made available through Canvas.

There is no single recommended textbook for this course. Beyond the assigned readings (see below), these are some textbooks and resources you may find helpful.

• Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, 7th edition, by James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross. (Also see below for a free and publicly available alternative for a computer networking textbook.)
• TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols by W. Richard Stevens.
• Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces, available freely online by Remzi and Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau.
• Principles of Computer System Design, by Jerome Saltzer and Frans Kaashoek. You can read this book online by logging into the Rutgers library site; use this custom link. Also, Part 2 of this book is freely available online.
• The Linux Programming Interface : A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook, by Michael Kerrisk. You can read this book online by logging into the Rutgers library site; use this custom link.
• Computer Networking: Principles, protocols, and practice by Olivier Bonaventure. The third edition of this textbook is openly and freely available.

Syllabus

This syllabus is tentative and subject to change.

• internet architecture: layering and function decomposition, protocols
• transport: guarantees, design of some widely-deployed TCPs, packet scheduling
• data plane: modern router architecture, software-defined networking, high-speed software packet processing, network functions
• control plane: routing problem, distributed protocols, Internet design
• verification: data plane verification, control plane verification, safety guarantees

Schedule

This schedule is tentative and subject to change.

Major milestones: Tentatively,

• programming homeworks are due on Mondays 2/19, 3/11, 4/8, and 4/29 at 8 pm ET on Canvas
• quizzes are held in class on Wednesdays 2/7, 2/28, 4/3, and 4/24.

All lecture slides will be made available below.

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