Text: The primary text will be An Introduction to Computer Networks (free and online), by me.
Grading: There will be a midterm and a final (the midterm is sort of tentative at this point). My general course groundrules are here. Exams will count for between 70% to 80% of your grade, with homework and programs making up the rest. The final exam is the week of May 3. The midterm will probably be during the week of March 15.
(These will be on Sakai; a draft of the midterm study guide is there now)
| Class | Readings pre: before class post: after class |
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| Class 1: Jan 25 |
post: TCP Reno (ch 19 & 20); high-bw problem
(ch 21.6) |
| Class 2: Feb 01 |
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| Class 3: Feb 08 |
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| Class 4: Feb 15 |
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| Class 5: Feb 22 |
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| Class 6: Mar 01 |
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| Spring Break | |
| Class 7: Mar 15 |
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| Week 8: Mar 22 |
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| Week 9: Mar 29 |
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| Class 10: Apr 05 |
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| Class 11: Apr 12 |
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| Class 12: Apr 19 | |
| Class 13: Apr 26 |
project2: Comparing TCP Reno and TCP Cubic
project3: HTTP packet sizes
project4: BGP hijacking and anycast
project5: Python and pcap files
The old version of this course was called "network management", and dealt with things like keeping tabs on all your switches and routers in order to know when to panic.
But while still keeping some elements of network "management", the course is being transformed into a second-semester networks course, with the new title eventually to be Enterprise Networking. We will cover some of the following things:
We're not going to do much programming (though there may be a Python program about SDN, and I'm in the process of writing a Python TCP implementation that I may have you make changes to).
You will be setting up several network configurations using Mininet.
Here is where you can get the "free personal edition" of the iReasoning MIB Browser (the download links are at right). But I'm not sure yet if we'll use it.