This is the working schedule for the course. It is subject to change, so check it often! Check the page on readings for a complete list of all readings. Last updated on April 19, 2000.

1/19, Wednesday

• Introduction to course, syllabus

1/21, Friday

• Preliminary material: switching, CSMA/CD, flow control using sliding window protocols. Read the article on bandwidth vs. latency.

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1/24, Monday

• Preliminary material continued: sliding window protocols, the TCP/IP model

1/26, Wednesday

• Meet in Engineering 304 beginning today!
• Client/server programming using BSD sockets.
• Simple network measurement using TTCP
• Programming Assignment:
  1. Modify ttcp.c to use send/revc rather than write/read.
  2. Use both versions to test the performance of two of your favorite network connections.
  3. Write a short report on ttcp. In your report be sure to explain your results, what you can do and cannot do with ttcp, any modifications you think would be helpful to ttcp, and whether or not you think there are differences or advantages to send/recv versus write/read.
  4. Include at least two references, as appropriate.
  5. Turn in your report on Monday, February 21.

1/28, Friday

• No class held, due to eleven inches of snow!

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1/31, Monday

• No class held, due to eleven inches of snow!

2/2, Wednesday   Happy Groundhog Day!

• Measured Capacity of an Ethernet: Myths and Reality, by David R. Boggs, Jeffrey C. Mogul, and Christopher A. Kent, Digital Western Research Laboratory, Research Report 88/4, September 1988. See the presentation by Surang Noithai and Joseph Paparo.

2/4, Friday

• Gigabit Ethernet information at the Gigabit Ethernet Alliance home page. See the presentation by Aaron McIntyre and Anshul Arora.

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2/7, Monday

• Fibre Channel. Your reading assignment is the Fibre Channel Overview page. See the presentation by Sam Le and Monica Stoica.

2/9, Wednesday

• The Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI), by David B. Gustavson and Qiang Li, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 34, No. 8, August, 1996, p. 52-63. See the presentations by Takeshi Fujiwara and Pankaj Mehta.

2/11, Friday

• Performance of the SCI Ring, by Steven L. Scott, James R. Goodman, and Mary K. Vernon, Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, May 1992, available here. See the presentation by Yuen-Yang Wang and Hong Liu.

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2/14, Monday   Happy Valentines Day!

• Myrinet: A Gigabit per second Local Area Network, by C. Seitz, IEEE Micro, Feb, 1995, available here. See the presentation by Scott Fendley and Jeremy Gabbard.
• Take-Home Midterm Exam assigned today.

2/16, Wednesday

• Congestion Control in Asynchronous, High-Speed Wormhole Routing Networks, by Emilio Leonardi, Fabio Neri, Mario Gerla, and Prasasth Palnati, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 34, No. 11, November, 1996, p. 58-69. Available from the Research Index. See the presentation by Ann Chen and Wade Han.

2/18, Friday

• ATM. For reference, see High-Speed Networks: TCP/IP and ATM Design Principles, by William Stallings, Prentice Hall, 1998.
• ATM protocol architecture, logical connections, and cell format. See Stallings, sections 4.1-4.3. See the presentations by Shrikant Palaskar and Gijun Lee.

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2/21, Monday

• ATM service categories, adaptation layer. See Stallings, sections 4.4,4.5 Presentations by Sean Semple and Balasubramaniam Sivalingam

2/23, Wednesday

• ATM LAN's. See Stallings, section 5.2, and Communication Issues in Parallel Computing Across ATM Networks by Chengchang Huang and Phillip K. McKinley, IEEE Parallel and Distributed Technology, Winter, 1994, p. 73-86, available from the Research Index. See the presentations by Edgar Thomas and Shengquang Qian.

2/25, Friday

• Class cancelled in honor of Dr. Malstrom.

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2/28, Monday

• TCP over ATM. See Stallings, section 10.3. See the presentations by Edgar Thomas and by Soonyoung Lee.

3/1, Wednesday

• AmpNet. Presentation by Damon Hill and Nick Roberson. Also see information at Belobox Networks.

3/3, Friday

• The facts about FireWire, by Ingrid J. Wickelgren, IEEE Spectrum, April, 1997, p. 19-25. Also see on-line sources of information here and here and the presentation by Ryan Wells and Winfred Byrd.

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3/6, Monday

• Breathe.
• Discussion of papers we have covered.
• Big picture.

3/8, Wednesday

• Brief introduction to IP Multicast and wireless networking.
• Schedule.

3/10, Friday

• cLAN, by Giganet. Also see the paper on VIA and a cLAN fact sheet. Presentation by Damon Hill and Wade Han.

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3/13, Monday

• VIA, continued. Programming in M-VIA. Presentation on sockets and via.
• Take-Home Midterm Exam due at start of class.

3/15, Wednesday

• Active Messages, presentation by Ryan Wells. Read HPAM: An Active Message Layer for a Network of HP workstations. Hot Interconnects , 1994. Available at the NOW papers page.

3/17, Friday   Happy St. Patrick's Day!

• Tour of Engineering School network wiring closets!

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      Monday 3/20 through Friday 3/24 is Spring Break!     

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3/27, Monday

• Begin survey of IP Multicast protocols. The Introduction to IP Multicast Routing by Chuck Semeria and Tom Maufer will cover the first five presentations.
• Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP), by Nick Roberson
• Multicast forwarding algorithms, by Aaron McIntyre

3/29, Wednesday

• Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP), by Anshul Arora
• Multicast OSPF (MOSPF), by Balasubramaniam Sivalingam

3/31, Friday

• Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM), by Scott Fendley
• Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM), by Winfred Byrd. See the Internet Draft for the PGM Specification, June 24, 1999.

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4/3, Monday

• Unidirectional Link Routing (UDLR), Joe Paparo See the Unidirectional Link Routing Home Page
• Begin survey of wireless networks. See Tanenbaum sections 2.3, 2.7, 2.8, 4.2.6, and 4.2.7 for useful background information.

4/5, Wednesday

• Wireless Bridges, Soonyoung Lee and Shengquang Qian. See the Q&A page at Vicomsoft for background information.

4/7, Friday

• Wireless Wide Area Networks, Monica Stoica and Takeshi Fujiwara. For background information, read this Network Design Manual for Wide Area Networks by Peter Rysavy. Also see this overview on GSM. Presentation by Monica.

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4/10, Monday

• No class

4/12, Wednesday

• Wireless LAN's, See Implementing Interoperable Networks, by Jim Geier. Macmillan Technical Publishing, 1999. Presentation by Shrikant Palaskar and Gijun Lee. See the readings page for an extensive list of background reading materials on wireless LAN's.

4/14, Friday

• 802.11, Presentation by Pankaj Mehta and David Wang. Read the 802.11 Tutorial downloadable from this page, or located directly at this link for both today and Monday.

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4/17, Monday

• Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks, Jeremy Gabbard and Sam Le.
• Final Take-Home Assignment assigned, due on Wednesday, April 26.

4/19, Wednesday

• Wireless personal communication. See the survey article by Cox, with an introduction here. Presentation by Surang Noithai and Sean Semple

4/21, Friday

• TCP over wireless networks. See the material in Tanenbaum, section 6.4.9. Presentation by Hong Liu.
• Project presentations by
  1. Damon and Soonyoung
  2. Scott and Winfred

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4/24, Monday

• Project presentations by
  1. Aaron and Nick
  2. Joe
• Summary discussion of wireless networks

4/26, Wednesday

• Project presentations by
  1. Ryan and Shengquang
  2. Sam and Jeremy
  3. Bala and Pankaj
  4. Sean and Anshul
• Final Take-Home Assignment due.

4/28, Friday   National Arbor Day!

• Project presentations by
  1. Monica and Takeshi
  2. Gijun, David, and Hong
  3. Shrikant and Wade
  4. Edgar and Surang

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5/1, Monday No class

5/3, Wednesday

• David Merrifield from Computing Services will speak!

5/5, Friday Dead Day. No class!!

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5/8, Monday

• Final Projects due in my mailbox at 9am.