Syllabus

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Examinations

• --> Midterm (click here) <--
• --> Final (click here) <--

Contents

Week 1

Class 1: Introduction

August 29, 2022

Network Types, Protocol Layering

• Presentation (keynote) -- Click here --
• Presentation (pdf) -- Click here --
• Recording (mp4) -- Click here --

Class 2:

August 31, 2022

Physical Layer: Waves, Frequency Domain, Bandwidth of Physical links, Digital Signals, Data Rate Limits, Performance measurments.

• Presentation (keynote) -- Click here --
• Presentation (pdf) -- Click here --
• Recording (mp4) -- Click here --

Homework 1:

due September 9, pdf only, submission via dropbox

• hw1.pdf
• Solutions: hw1Sol.pdf

Class 3:

September 7, 2022

Physical Layer: Capacity, Performance, Digital to Digital and Analog to Digital Transmissions

• Presentation (keynote) -- Click here --
• Presentation (pdf) -- Click here --
• Recording (mp4) -- Click here --

Homework 2:

due September 16, pdf only, submission via dropbox

• hw2.pdf
• Solution

Class 4:

September 12, 2022

Bandwidth Use

• Presentation (keynote) -- Click here --
• Presentation (pdf) -- Click here --

Class 5:

September 14, 2022

Overview of the Data Layer

• Presentation (keynote) -- Click here --
• Presentation (pdf) -- Click here --
• Recording (mp4) -- Click here --

Class 6:

September 19, 2022

Error detection and correction

• Presentation (keynote) -- Click here --
• Presentation (pdf) -- Click here --
• Python code --Click here --
• Recording (mp4) -- Click here --

Class 7:

September 21, 2022

Medium Access Control

• Presentation (keynote) -- Click here --
• Presentation (pdf) -- Click here --
• Recording (mp4) -- Click here --

Homework 3:

due September 26, pdf only, submission via dropbox

• Text: hw3.pdf
• Solution

Class 8:

September 26, 2022

Medium Access Control: Ethernet

• Presentation (keynote) -- Click here --
• Presentation (pdf) -- Click here --
• Recording (mp4) -- Click here --

Homework 4:

due October 3, 2022, pdf only, submission via dropbox

• hw4.pdf
• Solution

Class 9:

September 28, 2022

Medium Access Control: Wireless

• Presentation (keynote) -- Click here --
• Presentation (pdf) -- Click here --
• Recording (mp4) -- Click here --

Homework 5:

due October 10, 2022, pdf only, submission via dropbox

• hw5.pdf
• Homework 5 Solutions

Class 10:

October 3, 2022

Sonet and PPP

• Presentation (keynote) -- Click here --
• Presentation (pdf) -- Click here --
• Recording (mp4) -- Click here --

Class 11:

October 5, 2022

Network Layer, Routing Algorithms

• Presentation (keynote) -- Click here --
• Presentation (pdf) -- Click here --

Class 12:

October 10, 2022

Network layer

• Presentation (keynote) -- Click here --
• Presentation (pdf) -- Click here --
• Recording (mp4) -- Click here --

Midterm

The midterm is on October 17, 2022.

• Sample Midterm -- Click here --
• Sample Midterm Solution -- Click here --
• Midterm -- Click here for Midterm --

Homework 6:

due October 24, 2022, typeset and pdf only, submission via dropbox

• -- hw6.pdf --
• -- solutions --

Class 13:

October 19, 2022

Network layer,

• Presentation (keynote) -- Click here --
• Recording (mp4) BGP -- Click here for BGP presentation --
• Recording (mp4) Broadcast, unicast, multicast, anycast routing -- Click here for routing presentation --
• Recording (mp4) Dealing with congestion -- Click here for congestion presentation --

Class 14:

October 24, 2022

Network layer

• Presentation (keynote) -- Click here --
• Presentation (pdf) -- Click here --
• Recording (mp4) -- Click here --

Homework 7:

due November 7, 2022, typeset and pdf only, submission via dropbox

• -- hw6.pdf --
• -- solutions --

Extra Credit Homework:

due November 14, 2022, typeset and pdf only, submission via dropbox. This homework replaces the worst homework in the grades.

• -- hw6.pdf --
• -- solutions --

Class 15:

October 31, 2022

IPv4 and IPv6

• Presentation (pdf) -- Click here --
• Recording (mp4) -- Click here --

Class 16:

November 2, 2022

OFPS and BGP

• Presentation (pdf) -- Click here --
• Recording (mp4) -- Click here --

Class 17:

November 7, 2022

Transport Layer

• Presentation (pdf) -- Click here --
• Recording (mp4) -- Click here --

Class 18:

November 9, 2022

TCP

• Presentation (pdf) -- Click here --
• Recording (mp4) -- Click here --

Homework

due Nov 14, 2022

• hw8.pdf
• synackfin.pcapng (wireshark capture file
• Solutions

Class 19:

November 14, 2022

TCP congestion control

• Presentation (pdf) -- Click here --
• Recording (mp4) -- Click here --

Class 20:

November 16, 2022

Application Layer: DNS, Email, ASN.1, JSON

• Presentation (pdf) -- Click here --
• Recording (mp4) -- Click here --

Homework

due Nov 21, 2022

• hw9.pdf
• Pseudo-trace
• Solutions

Class 21:

November 21, 2022

Application Layer: JSON, Cryptography, Security Basics

• Presentation (pdf) -- Click here --
• Recording (mp4) -- Click here --

Class 22:

November 28, 2022

PKI, Certificates, HTTPS, AES

• Presentation (pdf) -- Click here --
• Recording (mp4) -- Click here --

Class 23:

November 30, 2022

Authentication, KDC, Kerberos, Needham Schroeder, Diffie-Hellman, SSL, IPSec, SSH

• Presentation (pdf) -- Click here --
• Recording (mp4) -- Click here --

Homework 10

Due: December 5, 2022 one minute before midnight

• hw10.pdf
• hw10sol.pdf

Finis

Class 24:

December 5, 2022

World-Wide Web, Dark Web, Distributed Systems, Content Delivery Systems, Traffic Shaping, Streaming audio and video

• Presentation (pdf) -- Click here --
• Recording (mp4) -- Click here --

Class 25:

December 7, 2022

SNMP

• Presentation (pdf) -- Click here --
• Recording (mp4) -- Click here --