The lecture notes, recorded lectures for remote lectures, and projects together with recommended reading assignments are posted here. Recommended reading assignments refer to the seventh edition of the textbook.

Week 1

Thursday, 2/11

• Course Overview
• Network Overview
• Lecture Video
• Project 1

Reading Assignment

Chapter 1

Week 2

Tuesday, 2/16

• Basic Concepts (I): Basic Terms, Character of a Network, Layer Models, Protocol Hierarchy in a Packet

Thursday, 2/18

• Basic Concepts (II): Common Functions, Basic Devices, Performance Measures, Time-space Diagram
• Networking Fundamentals (I): A brief history, Address Resolution and ARP

Reading Assignment

Chapter 4.3.1 4.4.3, 6.4.1, 6.7.2

Week 3

Tuesday, 2/23

• Network Layer Fundamentals (II): IP prefix and subnet mask, DHCP, Network Layer Routing

Thursday, 2/25

• Network Layer Fundamentals (III): Longest Prefix Match, Bridging, Special Use IPv4 Addresses

Reading Assignment

Chapter 4.3.3, 6.4

Week 4

Tuesday, 3/2

• Network Layer Fundamentals (IV): Spanning Tree Protocol
• Application Layer (I): Client-and-Server, P2P, Point-to-Point Connection, NetCat
• Project 2

Thursday, 3/4

• Application Layer (II): Socket API, Domain Name Services (sample socket programming code is in this note)

Reading Assignment

Chapter 2.1, 2.4, 2.7

Week 5

Tuesday, 3/9

• Spring Break (No Class)

Thursday, 3/11

• Application Layer (III): A DNS Example; Electronic Mail -- SMTP, ESMTP/TLS, POP3/IMAP, MIME; HTTP, GET Method (SMTP and HTTP demonstrations are in the note)

Reading Assignment

Chapter 2.2, 2.3

Week 6

Tuesday, 3/16

• Application Layer (IV): HTTP POST Method; Build a Server Using NodeJS; AJAX (NodeJS sample code is in this note)
• Mock Exam 1

Thursday, 10/10

• Mock Exam 1 Discussion
• Network Security (I): Objectives, Encryption Categories, RSA

Reading Assignment

Chapter 8

Week 7

Tuesday, 3/23

• Midterm Exam 1
• Project 3

Thursday, 3/25

• Network Security (II): RSA (cont.), Authentication, Replay Attack, Message Integrity

Reading Assignment

Chapter 8

Week 8

Tuesday, 3/30

• Network Security (III): Certificates
• Transport Layer (I): Overveiw, Functions of Transport Layer, Error-control Method -- ARQ

Thursday, 4/1

• Midterm Exam 1 Discussion
• Transport Layer (II): Error-control Method -- ARQ (cont.), Stop and Wait, Sliding Window

Reading Assignment

Chapter 3.1, 3.4, 3.6

Week 9

Tuesday, 4/6

• Talking about the MSCA results and finding ways to improve
• Transport Layer (III): Error-control Method (cont.) -- Utilization, Flow control, Two Types of Congestions
• Project 4

Thursday, 4/8

• Transport Layer (IV): TCP: header, 3-way handshake, closing

Reading Assignment

Chapter 3.2, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7

Week 10

Tuesday, 4/13

• Transport Layer (V): TCP: Congestion Control, UDP
• Network Layer (I): Data Plane and Control Plane, General Functions, ICMP, Ping

Thursday, 4/15

• Spring Break (No Class)

Reading Assignment

Chapter 3.3, 3.7, 4.1.1

Week 11

Tuesday, 4/20

• Network Layer (II): IPv4, Fragmentation, IPv6, Neighbor Discovery Protocol
• Mock Exam 2

Thursday, 4/22

• Mock Exam 2 Discussion
• Network Layer (III): Routing, Weights, Link State Routing

Reading Assignment

Chapter 4.3, 5.2, 5.3

Week 12

Tuesday, 4/27

• Midterm Exam 2
• Project 5

Thursday, 4/29

• Network Layer (IV): Distance Vector Routing, BGP
• Project 5 Discussion

Reading Assignment

Chapter 5.2, 5.4

Week 13

Tuesday, 5/4

• Link Layer (I): Overview, Multiple Access Protocols, Three Borad Classes, Channel Partitioning -- TDMA, FDMA, CDMA

Thursday, 5/6

• Midterm 2 Discussion
• Link Layer (II): Random Access Protocol -- ALOHA, CSMA, CSMA/CD, CSMA/CA

Reading Assignment

Chapter 6.1, 6.3

Week 14

Tuesday, 5/11

• Link Layer (III): "Taking turns" protocols
• Final Exam

Reading Assignment

Chapter 6.3

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