Computer Networks

Lecture Notes

LEC # / TUT #	TOPICS
L1	L0 for background (PDF) Part I: Internetworking and Routing Packet Switching (PDF) A Simple Network
L2	The Internetworking Problem (PDF) The IP/TCP Split Connections Scaling IP
L3	Scaling IP (cont.) (PDF) Routers: Forwarding and Routing The IP Forwarding Path
T1	Tutorial on useful tools (PDF)
L4	Unicast Internet Routing: Intra- and Inter-Domain Routing (PDF) Project suggestions handed out; proposals due 1 day after T3
L5	Internet Routing-in-the-Wild
T2	Intro to the ns2 Network Simulator (PDF)
L6	Router Design and Implementation
L7 [Lecturer: Nick Feamster]	Security Problems with the Internet Architecture (PDF)
T3	Tutorial on IPv6 (PDF)
	Project Proposals Due (3 days after T3). Three hard copies.
L8	**Part II: Resource Management **End-to-End Congestion Control (PDF)
L9	Router-Assisted Congestion Control: Active Queue Management (PDF)
L10	Fair Queuing and Variants (PDF)
L11 [Lecturer: Jacob Strauss]	Modeling and Measurement-I: Packet Trains Slides (PDF)
T5	TCP Congestion Control Impediments
L12	Adaptive Network Applications Nick’s CM slides (PDF) Xiaowei’s ALF slides (PDF)
T6	Quiz 1 Review
	Quiz 1: In Class (4 days after T6)
	Project Meetings (2 days after Quiz 1)
T7	Tutorial: Project Office Hours
L13	QoS-I: Why QoS; Basic Models and Architecture (PDF)
L14	QoS-II: Mechanisms and Properties
T8	Tutorial: Project Office Hours
L15 (Notes from Fall 01)	Modeling and Measurement-II: Traffic Self-Similarity; Virus Propagation (PDF)
L16	Part III: Communication and Network Services P2P Networks Distributed Hash Table (DHT) Abstraction and Algorithms
T9
L17 [Lecturer: Nick Feamster]	Routing in Overlay Networks (PDF)
L18	DNS (PDF) Resource Discovery Other Examples of Lookups Project write-up (checkpoint) due in class
T10
L19	Wireless and Mobility: MAC Protocols, Routing
L20	Wireless Protocols: Data Transport and Sensor Data Dissemination (Cross-Layer Protocols)
T11	Anonymity (PDF)
L21	Group Communication: Multicast Routing and Transport
L22	Multicast (cont.); Scalability and Robustness in Networks (PDF)