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Course Summary
Administrivia
- Lectures: MW 1330-1450, Room: Friend 109
- Professor: Jennifer Rexford - 306 CS Building - 258-5182 jrex (at) cs.princeton.edu
- Teaching Assistant:
Mike Wawrzoniak,
mhw (at) CS.Princeton.EDU, office hours : Mondays and Thursdays 12:30 - 1:30pm
- Undergraduate Coordinator:
Donna O'Leary - 410 CS Building - 258-1746
doleary@cs.princeton.edu
- Grading: Grading is based on two "midterm" exams (one in week 6
and the other in week 12), four assignments (two in the first half of the
term, one in the second half, and one during reading period), and class
participation. Graduate students may do a research project in lieu of
the last two assignments; these projects must focus on data networking
and involve some programming component.
- Required Textbook:
Computer Networks: A Systems Approach (3rd edition),
by Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie
- Recommended Books: Other recommended textbooks for reference
include: Computer Networking:
A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet (3rd edition) and
Computer
Networks (4th edition).
For the programming assignments, the books
TCP/IP
Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols and Unix Network
Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API (3rd Edition)
would be useful as reference.
Purchasing these books is not necessary; they will be on reserve in
the engineering library, and online resources will be made available.
Schedule (under construction)
Reading assignments refer to the Peterson/Davie book, unless otherwise
specified.
Week 1: 2/6 - 2/10
Reading: Chapter 1; reference: Beej's Guide to Network Programming and
Stanford
socket links
Optional reading: The Internet Under Crisis Conditions: Learning from September 11
Lecture 1: Course Overview
Lecture 2: Networked Applications (sockets)
Week 2: 2/13 - 2/17
Reading: Sections 3.1, 3.4, 4.1.1-4.1.4
Optional reading: The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols and A Brief History of the Internet
Lecture 3: IP Packet Switching
Lecture 4: IP Addressing and Forwarding
Week 3: 2/20 - 2/24
Reading: Sections 2.5, 5.1-5.2, and 6.1-6.4
Optional reading: Sally Floyd's references on TCP and AQM and Traffic statistics for Princeton's connections to the Internet
Lecture 5: Transport Protocols (UDP and TCP)
Lecture 6: Congestion Control
Week 4: 2/27 - 3/3
Reading: Sections 9.1 and 4.1
Optional reading:
Bootstrapping with BOOTP and DHCP
Lecture 7: Naming (DNS)
Lecture 8: Internet control protocols (ARP, DHCP, ICMP)
Week 5: 3/6 - 3/10
Reading: Section 8.4 and Chapter 2
Optional reading:
A Look Inside Network Address Translators
Lecture 9: Middleboxes
Lecture 10: Links
Week 6: 3/13 - 3/17
Reading: Section 3.2
Lecture 11: Switches and Bridges
Lecture 12: Midterm #1 in room 104 in CS building
Spring Break: 3/20 - 3/24
Week 7: 3/27 - 3/31
Reading: Vivek Pai's OSDI'02 paper on request redirection in content distribution networks
Lecture 13: Internet Topology
Lecture 14: Guest Lecture on Content Distribution by Vivek Pai
Week 8: 4/3 - 4/7
Reading: Sections 4.2, 4.3.3, and 4.3.4
Optional reading: BGP policies in ISP networks
Lecture 15: Shortest-Path Routing
Lecture 16: Policy-Based Path-Vector Routing
Week 9: 4/10 - 4/14
Reading: Sections 9.2.2 and 9.4.3, and handout about the Web
Lecture 17: Adapting Routing to Traffic
Lecture 18: World Wide Web
Week 10: 4/17 - 4/21
Reading: Sections 9.2.1 and 9.4
Lecture 19: Electronic Mail
Lecture 20: Overlay Networks
Week 11: 4/24 - 4/27
Reading: Sections 3.1.2, 3.3, 4.5, and 6.5
Optional reading: An analysis of the Skype peer-to-peer Internet telephony protocol
Lecture 21: Multimedia Streaming
Lecture 22: Circuit Switching
Week 12: 5/1 - 5/5
Lecture 23: Overview
Lecture 24: Midterm #2 in room 104 in CS building
Reading Period: 5/8 - 5/16
Dean's Date is Tuesday May 16
