This schedule and syllabus is preliminary and subject to change. Reading assignments refer to the Peterson/Davie book (5th edition), unless otherwise specified.
Lectures and related materials are licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, attributed to Michael Freedman and Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University.
| Date | Topics | Readings | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Protocol Layers (Link, Network, Transport, and Application) | |||
| Mon 02/03 | Course Overview [pdf] [ppt] | 1.3 | Optionally read Internet history |
| Wed 02/05 | University closed for winter storm | ||
| Fri 02/07 | Socket Programming [pdf] [ppt] | 1.4 | Optionally read Beej's guide |
| Mon 02/10 | Link Layer [pdf] [ppt] | Skim 2.1 - 2.2 (links), 2.6 (Ethernet) | |
| Wed 02/12 | Network Layer [pdf] [ppt] | 3.2.1 - 3.2.5 (IP), 3.4 (routers) | Optionally read design philosophy of DARPA Internet protocols |
| Fri 02/14 | HTTP Application Layer and Assn 0 [pdf] [ppt] | 9.1.2 (HTTP) | Assignment 0, Sockets (Due 2/13) |
| Mon 02/17 | Transport Layer [pdf] [ppt] | 5.1 (UDP), 5.2 (TCP) | Optionally read HTTP/TCP interaction |
| Distributed Resource Allocation (Data and Control Planes) | |||
| Wed 02/19 | Congestion Control on Hosts [pdf] [ppt] | 6.3 (TCP congestion control), 6.4 (congestion avoidance) | |
| Fri 02/21 | fork, wireshark, and TCP congestion control problems [pdf] [ppt] | ||
| Mon 02/24 | Queue Management on Links [pdf] [ppt] | 6.2 (queuing disciplines), 6.5 (QoS) | |
| Reaching Remote End-Points (Discovery and Routing) | |||
| Wed 02/26 | Discovery [pdf] [ppt] | 3.2.6 (ARP), 3.2.7 (DHCP), 9.3.1 (DNS) | |
| Fri 02/28 | Practice questions on queuing and link scheduling [pdf] [ppt] | ||
| Mon 03/03 | Routing [ppt] | 3.3 (routing), 4.1 (global Internet) | |
| Wed 03/05 | Routing Convergence [pdf] [ppt] | Optionally read sub-section convergence | |
| Fri 03/07 | Practice questions on routing dynamics [pdf] [ppt] | Assignment 1, Webproxy (Due 3/6) | |
| Mon 03/10 | Host Mobility [pdf] [ppt] | 4.4 (routing among mobile devices) | |
| Wed 03/12 | Multicast and Anycast [pdf] [ppt] | 4.2 (multicast) | |
| Fri 03/14 | Midterm | 10am (CS 105), 11am (McCosh 28) | |
| Mon 03/17 | Spring Break | ||
| Wed 03/19 | Spring Break | ||
| Fri 03/21 | Spring Break | ||
| Internet Applications (CDN, P2P, overlay networks) | |||
| Mon 03/24 | Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) [pdf] [ppt] | Optionally read Akamai network | |
| Wed 03/26 | Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) [pdf] [ppt] | 9.4.2 (peer-to-peer networks), 9.4.1 (routing overlays) | Optionally read Chord |
| Fri 03/28 | Applications of DHTs [ppt] | ||
| Mon 03/31 | Peer-to-Peer File Sharing [pdf] [ppt] | Optionally read BitTyrant | |
| Wed 04/02 | Datacenter KV, Time, and Versioning [pdf] [ppt] | Optionally read Amazon Dynamo | |
| Fri 04/04 | RPCs and Serialization [pdf] [pptx] | Assignment 2, Router (Due 4/4) | |
| Network Case Studies | |||
| Mon 04/07 | Datacenter Networks [pdf] [ppt] | Optionally read Cisco's primer Part 1 and Part 2 | |
| Wed 04/09 | Wireless Networks [pdf] [ppt] | 2.7 (wireless) | |
| Fri 04/11 | Practice questions on wireless [pdf] [pptx] | ||
| Mon 04/14 | Ad-hoc Networks [pdf] [pptx] | ||
| Wed 04/16 | Backbone Networks [pdf] [ppt] | 4.1.2. (BGP), 4.3 (MPLS) | Optionally read BGP Policy |
| Network Security | |||
| Fri 04/18 | Crypto [pdf] [ppt] | 8.1 (crypto), 8.2 (key distribution), 8.3 (authentication) | |
| Mon 04/21 | Securing Communication Protocols [pdf] [ppt] | 8.4 (example systems) | |
| Wed 04/23 | Interdomain Routing Security [pdf] [ppt] | ||
| Final Topics | |||
| Fri 04/25 | Internet Measurement [pdf] [ppt] | ||
| Mon 04/28 | Software-Defined Networking [pdf] [ppt] | Assignment 3, TCP (Due 4/27) | |
| Wed 04/30 | Course Wrap-Up [pdf] [ppt] | ||
| Fri 05/02 | Open question period | ||
| Mon 05/05 | Reading Period | ||
| Wed 05/07 | Reading Period | ||
| Fri 05/09 | Reading Period | ||
| Tue 05/13 | Assignment 4, BGP (Due Dean's Date, 5/13) | ||
| Wed 05/21 | Final | 9am (Friend 101) | |
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