Instructor: Spyridon (Spyros) Mastorakis

Lectures: Monday and Wednesday 12:30PM-1:45PM (DeBartolo Hall 117)

Instructor's Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 2PM-3PM and by appointment

Location: Fitzpatrick 356C

Teaching Assistants (TAs): Daniel Worae, Anton Lee

TAs' Office Hours: Monday 3PM-5PM (Daniel), Tuesday 2PM-4PM (Anton), Thursday 10AM-12PM (Anton), Friday 3PM-5PM (Daniel), and by appointment
Location: Fitzpatrick 150B

Course Overview

Study of the TCP/IP protocol architecture. Students will understand how the Internet operates and what its building blocks are. Future Internet technologies may be covered if time permits.

Grading Scheme

• Final exam (25%) -- Monday, May 6 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM, 117 DeBartolo Hall

• Midterm exam (25%)

• Semester project #1 on TCP file transfers in C/C++ (25%)

• Semester project #2 on network traffic traces (25%)

Textbook

James. F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross, “Computer Networking: A top-down approach”, 7th edition

Course Schedule 

Week 1 (January 15 - January 21)

• No class on January 15 (Martin Luther King Day) 

• January 17, Lecture 1: Introduction (part 1)

Week 2 (January 22 -January 28) 

• January 22, Lecture 2: Introduction (part 2)

• January 24, Lecture 3: Application Layer (part 1)

Week 3 (January 29 - February 4)

• January 29, Lecture 4: Application Layer (part 2)

• January 31, Lecture 5: Transport Layer Overview -- Semester project #1 is out (first part deadline: February 13, second part deadline: March 5, third part deadline: March 26) 

Week 4 (February 5 - February 11)

• February 5, Lecture 6: TCP (Part 1)

• February 7, Lecture 7: TCP (part 2) 

Week 5 (February 12 - February 18) 

• February 12, Lecture 8:  UDP

• February 14, Lecture 9: Socket Programming in C/C++ and Semester Project #1 Overview

Week 6 (February 19 - February 25)

• February 19, Lecture 10: Material Recap 

• February 21, Lecture 11: Data plane (part 1)

Week 7 (February 26 - March 3) 

• February 26, Midterm. The midterm will cover the application and transport layers.

• February 28, Lecture 12: Data plane (part 2)

Week 8 (March 4- March 10)

• March 4, Lecture 13:  Sockets programming and semester project #1 recap

• March 6, Lecture 14:  Control plane (part 1)

Week 9 (March 11 - March 17)

• No class, spring break

Week 10 (March 18 - March 24)

• March 18, Lecture 15: Control plane (part 2) 

• March 20, Lecture 16: DNS 

Week 11 (March 25 - March 31) 

• March 25, Lecture 17: Link Layer (part 1)  

• March 27, Lecture 18: Semester Project #2 Overview -- Semester project #2 is out (deadline: April 23) 

Week 12 (April 1 - April 7)

• No class on April 1 (Easter Holiday)

• April 3, Lecture 19: Link Layer (part 2)

Week 13 (April 8 - April 14) 

• April 8, Lecture 20: Wireless and Mobile Networks (part 1)

• April 10, Lecture 21: Wireless and Mobile Networks (part 2)

Week 14 (April 15 - April 21)

• April 15, Lecture 22: Network security (part 1)

• April 17: No lecture

Week 15 (April 22 - April 28)

• April 22, Lecture 23: Network security (part 2)

• April 28, Lecture 24: Multimedia Networking 

Week 16 (April 29 - May 3)

• April 29, Lecture 25: Internet -- Current State of Affairs and Future Directions

• May 1, Lecture 26: Course Summary

Note

The instructor reserves the right to change the course material or dates as necessary during the semester.