| Mth | Day | Topics | Read before class | Due |
| Jan | 23 | Introduction & Logistics [slides]
Network Architecture: Layers and Protocols [slides] |
Comer 1-3, 16.1-9 | |
| 30 | Network Architecture (continued)
Physical Layer: Transmission, Encoding [slides] |
Comer 4 | HW1 | |
| Feb | 6 | Physical Layer: Multiplexing, Channel Capacity, Compression | Comer 5-6 | HW2 |
| 13 | Data Link Layer: Framing, Error Detection, Ethernet, Wireless [slides] | Comer 7 | HW3; Proj
Proposal |
|
| 20 | Presidents Day -- No Class | |||
| 27 | Data Link Layer: Access vs. Backbone, First-Mile, Cellular
Network Economics: Infrastructure [slides] |
Comer 8, 11, 12 | HW4 | |
| Mar | 6 | Network Economics (continued) | [Odlyzko04] | HW5 |
| 13 | Network Layer: Internet Protocol [slides] | Comer 17-18, 20-21 | HW6 | |
| 20 | Exam 1 [solutions
and statistics]
Network Layer: Internet Protocol (continued) [slides] |
Comer 22 |
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| 27 | Spring Break -- No Class | |||
| Apr | 3 | Network Layer: Routing [slides]
Project Presentations |
[PC93], Comer 13, 27 | HW7 |
| 10 | Transport Layer: TCP [slides]
Project Presentations |
Comer 24, 25, 16.10-11 | HW8 | |
| 17 | Transport Layer: TCP (continued) and UDP
Project Presentations Application Layer Protocols [slides] |
Comer 31, 33, 35.12-18 | ||
| 24 | Application Layer Overlays [slides]
Project Presentations |
None | HW9 | |
| May | 1 | Application Layer Overlays: P2P networks [slides]
Network Economics: Incentives Course Review [slides] Course Evaluation |
None | |
| 8 | Exam 2 (10:10-11:30am) | None |
Additional Reading Assignments:
[Odlyzko04]
A. M. Odlyzko, Pricing and architecture of the Internet: Historical perspectives
from telecommunications and transportation. Telecommunications Policy Research
Conference (TPRC) 2004. http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/pricing.architecture.pdf.
[PC93]
Piscitello, D., and Chapin, A.L.,"Introduction to Routing", Connexions:
The Interoperability Report, vol. 7, no. 9, pp. 66-73, September 1993.
http://www.corecom.com/html/OSNconnexions.html.