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Lecture Date Topic Lecture Topic Textbook Reading Additional Reading Lab
Assignment
1 Tuesday
Sept. 3
Introduction Course overview;
an introduction to the Internet
(pptx, pdf video: part1 video: part2)
1.1, 1.2, 1.7 Interesting RFCs;
Clos Networks;
Google Datacenter Networks;
ISP Backbone Maps;
 
2 Thursday
Sept. 5
Taxonomy of communication networks
(pptx, pdf video: part1 video: part2)
1.3, 1.4 M/M/1 simulation;
 
3 Tuesday
Sept. 10
Statistical multiplexing
(pptx, pdf video: part1 video: part2 )
1.4, 1.5 Required:
The End-to-end Argument;
Alternative views:
Protocol Stack vs Heap;
GENI: A new initiative for network architecture;
Assignment One
4 Thursday
Sept. 12
Layered network architectures and the end-to-end arguments
(pptx, pdf video: part1 video: part2 )
1.5, 2.3 History: Design Philosophy of DARPA Internet;
5 Thursday
Sept. 19
Network Applications: Basic Overview of network apps; Email
(pptx, pdf, video: part 1, video: part 2 )
1.5, 2.3 History: Design Philosophy of DARPA Internet;

6 Thursday
Sept. 24
Email; DNS
(pptx, pdf video: part 1, video: part 2 )
2.1, 2.3, 2.4 SPF; SPF, DKIM, DMARC;
DNS: Example dig commands
DNS attack: DDoS on DNS; Syrian attack on NYTimes
 
7 Saturday
Sept. 26
Java in a nutshell; Network socket programming
(pptx, pdf, video: part 1, video: part 2)
2.7, 2.3, 2.2 m-DNS/DNS-SD: dns-sd; mDNS; DNS-SD Android NSD mDNS wireshark capture;

UDPClient.java;
UDPServer.java
Assignment Two
8 Tuesday
Oct. 8
Network Applications:
FTP, HTTP and Distributed Systems
TCP socket programming; FTP
(pptx, pdf, video: part 1, video: part 2)
2.2.5, 2.6
Java Network Programming
(Ch. 12 on UDP, Ch. 2 on Enc/Dec);
EncodingDecoding.java;
TCPServer.java;
TCPClient.java;

FTP Seq. Diagram or FTP example
GridFTP


 
9 Thursday
Oct. 10
FTP; HTTP 1.0/1.1
(pptx, pdf,
video: part 1, video: part 2 )
2.2.5, 2.6 BasicWebServer.java;
WebRequestHandler.java;
See slides for more links to shtml, cgi, and ajax.
 
10 Tuesday
Oct. 15
HTTP 2.0; Operational Analysis
(pptx, pdf video: part 1, video: part 2 )
HTTP/2; HTTP/2 wireshark capture (need both http2.pcapng and http2-keylog.txt)

Operational Analysis: Operational analysis
Section 2 of DAA on Akamai
Assignment Three
11 Thursday
Oct. 17
Global Request Routing
(pptx, pdf, video: part 1, video: part 2 )
 
12 Tuesday
Oct. 17
Load-balancing Servers; Per-Thread Servers
(pptx, pdf, video: part 1, video: part 2 )
TCPServerMT.java
RequestHandler.java
13 Thursday
Oct. 22
Servers using Thread Pool and Synchronization
(pptx, pdf, video: part 1, video: part 2 )
Java Concurrency Tutorial;
ShareExample.java;

SyncOverhead.java;

ShareWelcome;
ShareQ;
WaitNotify;
Threadpool using java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor
Chapter 11 of Java Network Programming;
14 Tuesday
Oct. 24
Application Overlays (P2P)
(pptx, pdf, video: part 1, video: part 2 )
BitTorrent
optional: WebRTC
Skype;
Skype/Google+/iChat
 
15 Thursday
Oct. 29
Transport Layer Overview;
UDP
(pptx, pdf, video: part 1, video: part 2 )
3.1-3.3
16 Tuesday
Oct. 31
Reliable Data Transfer: Stop and Wait/Alternating-Bit Protocol
(pptx, pdf, video: part 1, video: part 2 )
3.4  
17 Thursday
Nov. 5
Reliable Data Transfer: Sliding Window Protocols
(pptx, pdf, video: part 1, video: part 2 )
3.4  
18 Thursday
Nov. 7
TCP: Reliability and Connection Management
(pptx, pdf, video: part 1, video: part 2 )
3.5-3.7 Class Project
19 Thursday
Nov. 12
TCP Congestion Control: AIMD
(pptx, pdf, video: part 1, video: part 2 )
3.5-3.7 System: Original TCP CC paper
20 Thursday
Nov. 14
General Resource Allocation Framework; Nash Bargaining Solution; Primal-Dual; TCP/Reno and Vegas as Primal-Dual
(pptx, pdf video: part 1, video: part 2 )
optional:
TCP in 4G LTE networks
QUIC: Design; Deployment and evaluations
Assignment Four
21 Tuesday
Nov. 19
General Resource Allocation Framework; Nash Bargaining Solution; Primal-Dual; Transport-cc-reno-cubic
(pptx, pdf, video: part 1, video: part 2 )
optional:
TCP in 4G LTE networks
QUIC: Design; Deployment and evaluations
22 Thursday
Nov. 21
General Resource Allocation Framework; Nash Bargaining Solution; Primal-Dual; Transport-cc-num-framework
(pptx, pdf, video: part 1, video: part 2 )
optional:
TCP in 4G LTE networks
QUIC: Design; Deployment and evaluations
23 Tuesday
Nov. 26
Network Layer and Link Layer Network Layer Overview;
Distance Vector Protocols
(pptx, pdf)
5.1, 4.1, 5.2 (Link to all chapters of the book.)
RIPv2 RFC
  Assignment Five
24
Thursday
Nov. 28
Distance Vector Protocols
(pptx, pdf, )
5.2, 5.3  


Acknowledgment: The materials of this course are heavily based on CPSC 433/533 at Yale University, by courtesy of Dr. Y. Richard Yang.

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