This is the working schedule for the course. It is subject to change, so check it often! Check the page on assignments for a complete list of all assignments. Last updated Monday, March 27.

1/19, Wednesday

• introduce self, students, syllabus
• Introduction to course
• Start Chapter 1.
• layered network model

1/21, Friday

• network services
• bandwidth vs latency
• Ping exercise assigned. Due Monday, January 31.

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1/24, Monday

• example networks
• Internet protocol, TCP, UDP, IP, DNS

1/26, Wednesday

• client/server programming
• ftp, http

1/28, Friday

• Class cancelled due to 11 inches of snow!

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1/31, Monday

• BSD sockets library. See the on-line tutorial on socket programming.
• Ping Exercise due.
• Client/Server Program assigned.
• Written homework 1 assigned.

2/2, Wednesday   Happy Groundhog Day!

• Client and server examples.

End of material for Test 1

2/4, Friday

• Start Chapter 2.
• Fourier series, Nyquist's Theorem, Shannon's Law, POTS
• transmission media: magnetic, twisted pair, baseband coaxial, broadband coaxial

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2/7, Monday

• fiber optics
• attenuation
• wireless transmission and the electromagnetic spectrum
• telephone system structure
• AM, FM, PM, QAM
• Written Homework 1 due.

2/9, Wednesday

• Go over homework; Test 1 advice.

2/11, Friday

• Test 1

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2/14, Monday   Happy Valentines Day!

• Written homework 2 assigned.
• QAM, continued.
• RS 232-C, null modem
• standards for multiplexing: FDM, WDM, TDM

2/16, Wednesday

• Client/Server Program due at start of class.
• T1
• switching
• N-ISDN
• B-ISDN and ATM

2/18, Friday

• Go over Test 1.
• Start Chapter 3, Data Link Layer.
• framing

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2/21, Monday

• error correcting code: Hamming code
• error detecting codes: parity, CRC

2/23, Wednesday

• simplex protocols

2/25, Friday

• one-bit sliding window protocol
• Written Homework 2 due.
• Assign the Data Link Protocol Exercise, due on March 6.

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2/28, Monday

• Go Back N

3/1, Wednesday

• Selective Repeat

3/3, Friday

• HDLC
• PPP
• flow control in Myrinet. Read about it in Myrinet: A Gigabit per second Local Area Network, by C. Seitz, IEEE Micro, Feb, 1995. Available here.

End of material for Test 2

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3/6, Monday

• Go over homework. Data Link Protocol Exercise due.

3/8, Wednesday

• Test 2

3/10, Friday

• sniffing, Sniffing Exercise assigned.
• Discuss ideas for semester projects.

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3/13, Monday

• Start Chapter 4, Medium Access Sublayer
• static and dynamic channel allocation
• ALOHA

3/15, Wednesday

• Go over Test 2 and Protocol Exercise.

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

• Sniffing Exercise due via email to Damon
• lab tour

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

3/27, Monday

• carrier sense multiple access protocols
• IEEE Standard 802.3 networks
• Manchester, differential Manchester encoding
• binary exponential backoff
• Written homework 3 assigned.

3/29, Wednesday

• collision-free multiple access protocols: bit-map protocol, binary countdown
• CDMA

3/31, Friday

• token bus
• 802.5, token ring
• FDDI

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4/3, Monday

• bridges
• transparent vs. source routing bridges
• Project paragraph due.

4/5, Wednesday

• Fibre Channel, credit-based flow control
• Start Chapter 5, the network layer.
• virtual circuit vs. datagram networks
• optimality principle

End of material for Test 3

4/7, Friday

• static routing algorithms: shortest path, flooding, flow-based routing
• Written homework 3 due.

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4/10, Monday

• Guest speaker! Our speaker will be Tim Kizer from the Information Technology Research Center in the Walton College of Business Administration.

4/12, Wednesday

• Test 3

4/14, Friday

• dynamic routing algorithms
• distance vector routing
• count-to-infinity problem
• link-state routing

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4/17, Monday

• hierarchical routing
• network layer in the Internet
• OSPF, BGP
• IP addressing

4/19, Wednesday

• ICMP
• subnets
• Semester project due!

4/21, Friday

• Go over exam 3
• ARP, RARP
• Internetworking

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4/24, Monday

• firewalls, network security
• course evaluations

4/24 AND 4/25, MONDAY AND TUESDAY: Project presentations in my office, Engr 325. See me immediately if you have not signed up for a presentation time!

4/26, Wednesday

• Public key encryption vs. secret key encryption
• Kerberos

4/28, Friday   National Arbor Day!

• MPI over IP Multicast, by Ann Chen

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5/1, Monday

• No class.

5/3, Wednesday

• No class.

5/5, Friday

• Dead Day. No class!!

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5/9, Tuesday

• Final Exam, 3-5 p.m. Comprehensive over all course material.

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