CS 6390 - Advanced Computer Networks

Tentative Course Schedule

Week

Date

Description

Notes

Reading/Resources

1

8/20

Intro and Packet Switching (ppt)

 

 Textbook: 3.1 - 3.3

2

8/25

Packet Switching, cont'd

 

 

2

8/27

Internet Architecture Design (ppt)

 

Cla88, SRC84 RFC1958

3

9/1

Socket Programming in C (ppt)

 

SocketPrg Tutorials 1, 2, 3
TCPServer TCPClient
TCP: server.c client.c

UDP: server.c client.c

3

9/3

Socket Programming in C, cont'd

 

 

4

9/8

Addressing and Forwarding (ppt)

HW1

Textbook: 4.1, 4.3

4

9/10

Intra-Domain Routing (ppt)

Textbook: 4.2

5

9/15 Intra-Domain Routing, cont'd    

5

9/17 Intra-Domain Routing, cont'd + Quiz 1    

6

9/22

Traffic Engineering and MPLS (ppt)

Textbook: 4.5 [1][2][3]

6

9/24

Multicast I (ppt)

 

Cisco Multicast Basics
Multicast Evolution Paper

7

9/29 Multicast II (ppt)

Programming Project

DVMRP, PIM, EXPRESS
SSM Overview

7

10/1

Multicast II, cont'd + Project Discussion

 HW2

 

8

10/6 Class cancelled due to sickness    

8

10/8

Inter-Domain Routing - BGP (ppt)

 

 Optional Reading 1 2 3

9

10/13 BGP, cont'd

Sample exam

 

9

10/15 Exam 1 - (ICNP 2009 Conference)    

10

10/20

IP Mobility (ppt)

 

 

10

10/22

Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: AODV (ppt)

 

AODV

11

10/27

TCP (ppt)

 

Textbook: 5.2

11

10/29

TCP cont'd, TCP Congestion Control (ppt)

 

Textbook: 6.1 - 6.3

12

11/3 TCP Congestion Control, cont'd

 HW 3

 

12

11/5

Congestion Control/Avoidance (ppt)

 

 Textbook: 6.4

13

11/10

TCP performance on wireless links (ppt)

 

BPSK

13

11/12

QoS - IntServ + DiffServ  (ppt Quiz 2

 

Textbook: 6.5

14

11/17

P2P (ppt)

 

Chord 

14

11/19 Overlay Networks (ppt) and SOS paper (ppt)   SOS

15

11/24

Network Measurement

 

APAR GBI

15

11/26 No Class - Thanksgiving Holiday    

16

12/1 Network Security    

16

12/3 Network Security, cont'd + Course Summary (Dr. Comer's presentation)    

 

12/10 Final Exam @ 8:15am