CS 514 • Computer Networking

Fall 2012 Schedule

The schedule starts with one one-week section and continues with seven two-week sections:

Linked material from the ACM or the IEEE can be downloaded for free from the Guggenheim Library within the monmouth.edu domain.

The source for the lecture notes can be found at github.com/rvclayton/f12-514 ; lecture screencasts can be found at vimeo.com/channels/mucs514 .

Readings: Kurose and Ross: Chapter 1.
Peterson and Davie: Chapter 1.
Tanenbaum and Wetherall: Chapter 1, sections 1.1 through 1.5, optional: sections 1.6 to 1.9.
Class notes: Course Introduction
Networking Introduction

Readings: Kurose and Ross: Chapter 2, sections 2.6 through 2.9.
Peterson and Davie: Chapter 9.
Tanenbaum and Wetherall: Chapter 7, sections 7.3.1 through 7.3.3, optional: sections 7.4.1 and 7.4.2.
Class notes: The Application Layer
Streams and Messages
The Presentation and Session Layers
Application Security
Homework: Homework 1 (last modified on 2012 October 1) available on Tuesday, 11 September; due on Thursday, 20 September at 7:00 p.m.
the answers.
the grades.

Readings: Kurose and Ross: Chapter 3.
Peterson and Davie: Chapter 3, sections 3.1 through 3.3; chapter 5, sections 5.1 and 5.2, optional: sections 5.3 and 5.4; chapter 6, sections 6.1 through 6.4.
Tanenbaum and Wetherall: Chapter 6, sections 6.1 through 6.5, optional: sections 6.6 and 6.7.
Class notes: The Transport Layer
IP, UDP, & TCP
Flow and Congestion Control
Transport Security
Homework: Homework 2 (last modified on 2012 October 15) available on Tuesday, 25 September; due on Thursday, 4 October at 7:00 p.m.
the answers.
the grades.
Quiz — Tuesday, 9 October: the quiz.
the grades.

No class — Thursday, 11 October, Fall break
Readings: Kurose and Ross: Chapter 4, optional: sections 4.6 and 4.8
Peterson and Davie: Chapter 3, optional: section 3.4
Tanenbaum and Wetherall: Chapter 5
Class notes: The Network Layer
Routing
Congestion Control
Internetworking
Homework: Homework 3 (last modified on 2012 November 24) available on Tuesday, 9 October; due on Thursday, 18 October at 7:00 p.m.
the answers.
the grades.

Drop day — Tuesday, 6 November.
Readings: Kurose and Ross: Chapter 5, optional: sections 5.8 through 5.10
Peterson and Davie: Chapter 2, optional: sections 2.2 and 2.7
Tanenbaum and Wetherall: Chapters 3 and 4, optional: sections 3.5, 4.5 through 4.7
Class notes: The Data-Link Layer
Flow & Error Control
Shared Channel Medium Access
Wireless Medium Access Control
Homework: Homework 4 (last modified on 2012 October 23) available on Tuesday, 23 October; due on Thursday, 1 November at 7:00 p.m.
Quiz: the quiz.
the grades.

Readings: Peterson and Davie: Chapter 2
Tanenbaum and Wetherall: Chapter 2, optional: sections 2.4 and 2.6 through 2.8
Class notes: Data Communication
Guided Transmission
Unguided Transmission
Digital Modulation and Multiplexing
Homework: Homework 5 (last modified on 2012 December 3) available on Tuesday, 20 November; due on Thursday, 29 November at 7:00 p.m.
The grades.

No class — Thursday, 22 November, Thanksgiving break
Readings: A Survey of Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution Technologies by Stephanos Androutsellis-Theotokis and Diomidis Spinellis in ACM Computing Surveys, December, 2004.
A Survey on the Design, Applications, and Enhancements of Application-Layer Overlay Networks by Jinu Kurian and Kamil Sarac in ACM Computing Surveys, November, 2010.
Class notes: Peer-to-Peer Networks
Peer-to-Peer Architectures
Peer-to-Peer Routing
Homework: Homework 6 (last modified on 2012 December 2) available on Tuesday, 4 December; due on Thursday, 13 November at 7:00 p.m.

Readings: Topology Control in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks by Paolo Santi in ACM Computing Surveys, June, 2005.
A Survey of Adaptive Services to Cope with Dynamics in Wireless Self-Organizing Networks by Cigdem Sengul and Aline Carneiro Viana and Artur Ziviani in ACM Computing Surveys, August, 2012.

Open Lecture on a topic to be determined at 7:45 to 9:45 p.m. on 18 December in HH 209.

This page last modified on 2012 August 4.