Comp 343-001 Week 3 notes

Introduction to the textbook

Programming assignments

Ethernet and globally unique addresses. Why? USB uses dynamic local addresses, assigned to devices by the controller.


Assignment 2   

    Second Edition
    Chapter 7: exercises 2.0, 6.0 (packet travel times)
    Chapter 8: exercises 7.0, 8.0 (sliding windows)
    Chapter 9: exercises 6.0, 8.0 (IPv4)
    Chapter 13: exercises 2.0, 4.0 (routing)

Due: Friday June 26

4.1: Radioland
4.2: Wi-Fi
    4.2.1: collision basics; link-layer ACKs, slot times
    4.2.2: rate scaling
    4.2.3: MIMO

4.2.4: Access points

    linssid demo (linux utility; runs as root; needs display access)

    4.2.5: security
    4.2.7: polling mode
    4.2.8: MANETs and mesh

5.1 VPNs
5.2 Carrier Ethernet
5.3 Token Ring

6: Links

    Encoding and Framing
        NRZ, etc
        Manchester
        4B/5B
    4.1.5 Framing: how packets are defined

    TDM and SONET


7. Packets, intronetworks.cs.luc.edu/current2/html/packets.html