| (01/25) Lecture 1 | |
| Course Overview | Slides |
| Readings: | A Brief History of the Internet |
The Internet: Architectural Principles and Design Contexts
| (01/30) Lecture 2 | |
| Sharing the Network: Circuits and Packets | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 1.2 |
| (02/01) Lecture 3 | |
| The Internet: Why "Packets"? | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 1.3 |
| Advanced readings: | End-to-End Arguments in System Design, Tussle in Cyberspace: Defining Tomorrow's Internet |
| (02/06) Lecture 4 | |
| How does the Internet work: An End-to-end view | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 1.5 |
| Advanced readings: | The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols |
| (02/08) Lecture 5 | |
| The Internet: Architectural Principles and Goals | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 1.4 |
| Announcement: | Problem Set 1 Released |
| Advanced readings: | Beej's Guide to Network Programming |
Link Layer: Addressing, and Broadcasting (Frames)
| (02/13) Lecture 6 | |
| Link Layer: Ethernet and CSMA/CD | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 2.5 & Section 2.6 |
| (02/15) Lecture 7 | |
| "Frames" & Scalability Issues with Broadcast Ethernet | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 3.2.1 & Section 3.2.2 |
| Announcement: | Problem Set 1 Solutions Released (on Piazza) |
| (02/20) February Break -- No Class |
| (02/22) Lecture 8 | |
| Socket Programming | Slides, Code |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 3.3.1 |
| Announcement: | Problem Set 2 Released |
Network Layer: Addressing, Routing, and Forwarding (Packets)
| (02/27) Lecture 9 | |
| Switched Ethernet & Spanning Tree Protocol | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 3.3.1 |
| (03/01) Lecture 10 | |
| Fundamentals of Routing, Intra-domain Routing | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 3.3 |
| Announcement: | Problem Set 2 Solutions Released (on Piazza) |
| (03/06) Lecture 11 | |
| Link State and Distance Vector Routing | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 3.3 |
| (03/08) Lecture 12 | |
| Intra-domain Routing: The harder stuff | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 3.3 |
| Announcement: | Problem Set 3 Released |
| (03/13) Lecture 13 | |
| IP: The Narrow Waist (Addressing, Switching, Forwarding) | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 3.2, Section 3.4 |
| (03/15) Lecture 14 | |
| Inter-domain routing | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 4.1 |
| Announcement: | Problem Set 3 Solutions Released, Practice Prelim Released (Solutions) |
| Advanced readings: | 10 Lessons from 10 Years |
| (03/20) Lecture 15 | |
| Inter-domain routing: The harder stuff | Slides |
| Readings: | BGP routing policies in ISP networks |
| Advanced readings: | Stable Paths Problem |
| (03/22) Lecture 16 | |
| Mid-term Review | Slides |
| (03/27) Lecture 17 | |
| Switching and Forwarding | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D Section 3.4 |
| (03/29) Prelim -- No Class | |
| Announcement: | Prelim on at 7:30PM @ Gates G01 |
| (04/03) Spring Break -- No Class |
| (04/05) Spring Break -- No Class |
Potpourri: DNS, MPLS, the Web, the HTTP, Content Distribution!
| (04/10) Lecture 18 | |
| DNS, the Web, the HTTP, Content Distribution | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 4.3, Section 8 | Advanced readings: | Survey of BGP Security |
| Announcement: | Problem Set 4 Released |
| (04/12) Lecture 19 | |
| More on the Web and the HTTP, MPLS | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 9, Virtual LANs, P&D Section 2.7 |
End-to-end: How the Internet works!
| (04/17) Lecture 20 | |
| Wrap up Network Layer | Slides |
| Readings: | |
| Announcement: | Problem Set 4 Solutions Released |
Transport Layer: Reliable and Unreliable Connections.
| (04/19) Lecture 21 | |
| Reliable Transport | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 5.1, Section 5.2.1 & Section 5.2.3 |
| Advanced readings: | A protocol for packet network intercommunication |
| Announcement: | Problem Set 5 Released |
| (04/24) Lecture 22 | |
| Reliable Transport and TCP | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 5.2 |
| Advanced readings: | Analysis of the Increase and Decrease Algorithms |
| (04/26) Lecture 23 | |
| More Congestion Control | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 6.3 |
| Announcement: | Problem Set 5 Solutions Released |
| Advanced readings: | Congestion Avoidance and Control |
| (05/01) Lecture 24 | |
| TCP: Recap and Even More Congestion Control | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 6.4 |
| Announcement: | Problem Set 6 Released |
| Advanced readings: | Modeling TCP Throughput |
Looking Forward: Future Internet Architectures and Grand Challenges in Computer Networking!
| (05/03) Lecture 25 | |
| Datacenter Networks and Software-defined Networks | Slides |
| Readings: | Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing, Jupiter Rising, How Google Does it |
| Advanced readings: | OpenFlow |
| (05/08) Lecture 26 | |
| Future of Computer Networks | Slides |
| Readings: | Future Internet architecture: Clean-slate vs. evolutionary research |
| Announcement: | Problem Set 6 Solutions Released, Practice Final Released (along with Solutions) |
| Project Assignments 1,2 &3 Released | |
| Advanced readings: | The Future of Networking and the Past of Protocols, Why the Internet Only Just Works |
| (05/22) | |
| Final @ 9AM (Location to be announced) |