| (01/22) Lecture 1 | |
| Course Overview | Slides |
| Readings: | A Brief History of the Internet |
The Internet: Architectural Principles and Design Contexts
| (01/27) Lecture 2 | |
| Sharing the Network: Circuits and Packets | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 1.2 |
| Announcement: | Problem Set 1 Released |
| (01/29) 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 |
| (02/03) 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 |
| (02/05) Lecture 5 | |
| The Internet: Architectural Principles and Goals | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 1.4 |
Link Layer: Addressing, and Broadcasting (Frames)
| (02/10) Lecture 6 | |
| Link Layer: Ethernet and CSMA/CD | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 2.5 & Section 2.6 |
| Announcement: | Problem Set 1 Solutions Released (on Ed Discussions), Problem Set 2 Released |
| (02/12) Lecture 7 | |
| "Frames" & Scalability Issues with Broadcast Ethernet | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 3.2.1 & Section 3.2.2 |
| (02/17) No class: February break |
| (02/19) Lecture 8 | |
| Spanning Tree Protocol | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 3.3.1 |
| Announcement: | Practice Prelim 1 and Solutions Released (Ed Discussions) |
| (02/24) Prelim 1 (In class) |
Network Layer: Addressing, Routing, and Forwarding (Packets)
| (02/26) Lecture 09 | |
| Fundamentals of Routing, Intra-domain Routing | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 3.3 |
| Announcement: | Problem Set 2 Solutions Released (on Ed Discussions), Problem Set 3 Released |
| (03/03) Lecture 10 | |
| Link State and Distance Vector Routing | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 3.3 |
| Announcement: | Learn Socket Programming (Slides, Code, Beej's Guide to Network Programming) |
| (03/05) Lecture 11 | |
| Intra-domain Routing: The harder stuff | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 3.3 |
| (03/10) Lecture 12 | |
| IP: The Narrow Waist (Addressing, Switching, Forwarding) | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 3.2, Section 3.4 |
| (03/12) Lecture 13 | |
| Inter-domain routing | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 4.1 |
| Announcement: | Problem Set 3 Solutions Released (Ed Discussions), Problem Set 4 Released |
| Advanced readings: | 10 Lessons from 10 Years |
| (03/17) Lecture 14 | |
| Inter-domain routing: The harder stuff | Slides |
| Readings: | BGP routing policies in ISP networks |
| Announcement: | Problem Set 4 Solutions Released (Ed Discussions), Practice Prelim 2 Released |
| (03/19) Lecture 15 | |
| Inter-domain routing: Even harder stuff | Slides |
| Advanced readings: | Stable Paths Problem, Survey of BGP Security |
| Announcement: | Practice Prelim 2 Solutions Released (Ed Discussions) |
End-to-end: How the Internet works!
| (03/24) Lecture 16 | |
| Putting All the Pieces Together | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D Section 3.4 |
| (03/26) Prelim 2 (In class) |
| (03/31) No class: Spring break |
| (04/02) No class: Spring break |
Transport Layer: Reliable and Unreliable Connections.
| (04/07) Lecture 17 | |
| Reliable Transport and TCP | 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 4 Solutions Released (Ed Discussions), Problem Set 5 Released |
| (04/09) Lecture 18 | |
| Congestion Control | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 5.2 |
| Advanced readings: | Analysis of the Increase and Decrease Algorithms |
| (04/14) Lecture 19 | |
| More Congestion Control | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 6.3 |
| Advanced readings: | Congestion Avoidance and Control |
| (04/16) Lecture 20 | |
| TCP: Recap and Even More Congestion Control | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 6.4 |
| Announcement: | |
| Advanced readings: | Modeling TCP Throughput |
| (04/21) Lecture 21 | |
| TCP Congestion Control | Slides |
| Readings: |
| (04/23) Lecture 22 | |
| Reliable Transport and TCP | Slides |
| Readings: | |
Looking Forward: Future Internet Architectures and Grand Challenges in Computer Networking!
| (04/28) Lecture 23 | |
| Host Network Stacks | Slides |
| Readings: | |
| Advanced readings: | Understanding Host Network Stack Overheads |
| (04/30) Lecture 24 | |
| Router/Switch Architecture | Slides |
| Readings: | P&D, Section 3.4 |
| Announcement: |
| (05/05) Lecture 26 | |
| Future of Computer Networks | Slides |
| Readings: | Future Internet architecture: Clean-slate vs. evolutionary research |
| Announcement: | Problem Set 5 Solutions Released, Practice Final Released (Ed Discussions) |
| Advanced readings: | The Future of Networking and the Past of Protocols, Why the Internet Only Just Works |
| Misc. Advanced readings: | Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing, Jupiter Rising, How Google Does it, OpenFlow |
| (05/11) Final Exam (2 PM; Statler 185) |