Course: CISC450/650-CPEG419/651-ELEG651 Computer Networks
Semester: Spring 2015
Professor: Paul D. Amer
Last updated: 12/16/2014

NOTES:
1. This schedule is TENTATIVE, and will be updated during the semester.
2. A chapter's homework is assigned when discussion of the chapter begins. All assignments are due at the beginning of class on the indicated due date. Due dates will be reminded in class.
Date
Class
Topic
Work Assigned
Work Due
Feb 10 1-T Ch 1 Computer Networks and the Internet Ch 1 HW, Wireshark Intro, Textbook Section 5.7
Feb 12 2-Th "
Feb 17 3-T Ch 2 Application Layer Ch 2 HW, Wireshark {DNS,HTTP} Wireshark Intro
Feb 19 4-Th " DNS, HTTP 1.0 (nonpersistent) Ch 1 HW
Feb 24 5-T " HTTP 1.1 (persistent, pipelined) Wireshark DNS
Feb 26 6-Th " HTTP caching, Content Dist'd Networks (Akamai) Project 1
Mar 3 7-T " Socket Programming, Sections 2.7, 2.8 Wireshark HTTP
Mar 5 8-Th Ch 3 Transport Layer Ch 3 HW, ACM Survey paper, Wireshark {TCP, UDP} Ch 2 HW
Mar 10 9-T " Reliable Data Transfer
Mar 12 10-Th " RDT Wireshark UDP
Mar 17 11-T " RDT Project 1
Mar 19 12-Th " Retransmission timer
Mar 24 13-T " Flow control, congestion control Wireshark TCP
Mar 26 14-Th Midterm (Ch 1,2,3, Wireshark Projects, Project 1, ACM Survey paper) Ch3 HW
Mar 31 T Spring Break
Apr 2 Th Spring Break
Apr 7 15-T Review midterm results
Apr 9 16-Th Ch 4 Network Layer Ch 4 HW, Wireshark {IP, DHCP, NAT}
Apr 14 17-T " IP addressing
Apr 16 18-Th " Fragmentation/Reassembly, NATs, Link State routing intro
Apr 21 19-T " Link State routing game Wireshark IP
Apr 23 20-Th " Distance Vector routing intro
Apr 28 21-T " Distance Vector routing game Wireshark DHCP
Apr 30 22-Th " ICMP - ping, traceroute, route redirect, timestamp
May 5 23-T Ch 5 Link Layer and LANs Ch 5 HW, Wireshark Ethernet-ARP Wireshark NAT
May 7 24-Th " ARP, layers 2/3 forwarding Ch4 HW
May 12 25-T " ARP, layers 2/3 forwarding
May 14 26-Th " checksums Wireshark Ethernet-ARP
May 18 M Ch5 HW
May 26 T 1-3pm; 131 ALS; Final Exam (Ch 4,5, Wireshark Projects)