CS 4396 - Computer Networks Lab
Spring 2012
Tentative Course Schedule

Week

Date

Description

Reading/Resources

1

1/20

Course Outline (ppt) +  TCP/IP Networking: An Example (ppt)

Liebeherr/El Zarki: Chp 0

2

1/27

Work on the initial system configurations in the lab

 

3

2/3

IP Addresses (ppt), Internet Protocol (IP) (ppt), IP Forwarding (ppt)

 Liebeherr/El Zarki: Chp 3

4

2/10

Internet Control Management Protocol (ICMP) (ppt)
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) (ppt)
 

5

2/17

No class – lab catch up day  

6

2/24

Dynamic Routing Protocols: RIP & OSPF (ppt); BGP (ppt)

 IBM RedBook Chp4

7

3/2

Quiz 1  

8

3/9

UDP (ppt)

TCP I: Connection Management (ppt)

IBM RedBook Sect. 5.1,5.2

9

3/16

Spring Break - No Class

10

3/23

TCP II: Flow and Congestion Control (ppt)

 

11

3/30

No class – lab catch up day  

12

4/6

Network Address Translation (ppt)
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (ppt)
 

13

4/13

No class – lab catch up day

 

14

4/20

Domain Name System (ppt)

15

4/27

Quiz 2

 

16

5/4

No class - lab catch up day

 

 

Lab Schedule

Labs

Start Date

End Date

Report Due

Time to work on a lab

Lab-1
Instructions

1/30/2012 2/12/2012 2/17/2012

 2 weeks

Lab-2
Overlaps with Lab 1

2/6/2012 2/19/2012 2/26/2012

 2 weeks

Lab-3

2/20/2012 3/4/2012 3/11/2012

 2 weeks

Lab-4
Overlaps with Spring Break

3/5/2012 3/18/2012 3/25/2012

 2 weeks

Lab-5

3/19/2012 4/1/2012 4/8/2012

 2 weeks

Lab-7

4/2/2012 4/15/2012 4/22/2012

 2 weeks

Lab-8

4/16/2012 4/29/2012 5/6/2012

 2 weeks

Schedule for Lab Usage Times

 

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Morning

 

 

 

Afternoon

Group 1:
Juan Davila
Group 1:
Matthew Lautzenheiser
Rami Hurtubise

Group 2:
Group 1:
Rachel Weldon
Lisa Becvarik

Group 2:

Group 1:
Arun Varghese
Shwetha Ravikumar

Group 2:
Seyi Ogunseni
Yingsong Kaping

     

Evening

Group 1:
Vincent Tran
Mohammad Towqeer

Group 2:

 

 

Group1:
David Dindak
Mario Rosales

Group 2:
Jason Olmos
<Looking for a lab partner>

Group 1:
Aakash Patel
Eric Deshazer
   

 

Note that each slot can have two groups simultaneously.