Computer Networking Course

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Computer Networking Course

• Milan Vojnovic
• April 2006

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Your Team

• Instructor
• Milan VojnovicMicrosoft ResearchCambridge,
  United Kingdom
• Teaching assistant
• Nenad Ukic Ericsson Nikola TeslaSplit, Croatia

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Goals

• Learn basic principles of state-of-the-art
  communication networks
• Aim at breath by understanding basic principles
• Non-objectives
• Learning gory engineering details of specific
  protocols

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Plan

• Lectures
• 10 3 hours
• Lecture material available from course web site
• Exercises
• Complement and review lecture material
• Assigned on the date as indicated (later slides)
  (Mon of a week)
• Exercise solutions to be delivered by end of the
  week (Sun, 2400)
• Do the exercises at your convenient time
• Note the assigned lab slots (later slide)
• Exercise solutions format a file sent to
  nukic_at_fesb.hr (.txt or .doc or .pdf or .ps)
• Essay
• Read a research paper (one per student) to be
  assigned by April 21, 2006
• Summarize main claims (bullet form, single A4,
  12pt font)
• Communication
• FESB e-learning portal
• Web http//www.fesb.hr/nukic/cn06/

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Grading

• E exercises
• R essay
• M mid-term exam
• F final exam
• Grade 0.1 E 0.1 R 0.2 M 0.6 F
• Mid-term May 22
• Essay return until June 16
• Additional requirements
• Attendance to lectures will be recorded

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Time Plan April / May
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 Lec 1 14 15 16
17 18 Lec 2 19 Lec 3 20 Lec 4 21 Lec 5 22 23
24 Ex 1 25 26 27 28 29 30
1 Ex 2 2 3 4 5 6 7
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Time Plan May / June
8 Ex 3 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 Ex 4 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 Lec 6 23 Lec 7 24 Lec 8 25 Lec 9 26 Lec 10 27 28
29 Ex 5 30 31 1 2 3 4
5 Ex 6 6 7 8 9 10 11
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Time Plan June / July
12 Ex 7 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 27 28
29 Ex 5 30 1 2 3 4 5
6 Ex 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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Lectures 1-5

• Lec 1 Overview (Tue, Apr 18)
• Lec 2 Layer 2 LANs and Bridges (Tue, Apr 18)
• Lec 3 IP (Wed, Apr 19)
• Lec 4 Internal Routing (Wed, Apr 20)
• Distance Vector and Link State
• Lec 5 External Routing BGP (Thu, Apr 21)

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Exercises

• Ex 1 Network administration tools (Apr 24)
• Ex 2 Internal Routing (May 1)
• Ex 3 External Routing (BGP) (May 8)
• Ex 4 Transport Layer (May 15)

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Lectures 6-10

• Lec 6 Transport Layer TCP and UDP (Fri, May 22)
• Microeconomics theory of congestion control
• Lec 7 Internet QoS (May 23)
• Lec 8 Wireless networks Routing (May 24)
• Lec 9 Overlay networks and content dissemination
  (May 25)
• Lec 10 Network security (May 26)
• Network epidemics worm, alerts, patches

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Exercises

• Ex 5 Congestion control (May 29)
• TCP fairness
• Multi-hop parking-lot
• Ex 6 File replication (June 12)
• HW assignments from lecture in Prague
• Ex 7 Worm and patch spread (June 19)
• ODE models in Matlab

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Where When

• Lectures Room TBD
• Exercises
• Wed, Lab 122, 1600-2000
• Fri, Lab 122, 1600-2000
• Fri Lab 317, 1600-2000
• Students assigned to time slots TBD

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QA