Welcome to EECS 340 Introduction to Computer Networking

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Welcome to EECS 340Introduction to Computer
Networking
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Course Overview

• Top-down Intro Networking Class
• Application down to physical layer
• Topics to Cover
• Overview of Internet architecture, protocols
• Network applications (HTTP, FTP) and programming
• Transport (TCP, UDP), congestion/flow control
• Network (IP), routing, multicast
• Data Link, error handling, LAN, wireless

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Logistics

• Instructor
• Yan Chen (ychen_at_cs.northwestern.edu),
• Office Hours Mon. and Wed. 230-330pm or by
  appointment, Rm L459, Tech Inst.
• TA
• Zhaosheng Zhu (zzh321_at_cs.northwestern.edu)
  Office Hours TBA, Rm 2-205, Ford Center.

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Prerequisites

• Required
• EECS311 (data structure)
• EECS 213 or (EECS 205 EECS 231)
• Highly Recommended OS or having some familiarity
  with Unix systems programming, preferably in C or
  C
• Minet is in C / STL
• BUILDING software is 35 of the grade of this
  class

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Course Materials

• Computer Networking A Top-Down Approach
  Featuring the Internet, Forth Edition, James
  Kurose and Keith Ross, Addison Wesley, 2008
• TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume I The Protocols,
  Richard Stevens, Addison Wesley, 1994
• See course webpage and syllabus for other
  recommended books and references

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Grading

• Class attendance, discussion and quiz 15
• Homework (4 sets) 10
• Projects 35
• Midterm 20
• Final 20
• Exams in-class, closed-book, non-cumulative
• Late policy 10 each day after the due date
• No cheating

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Communication

• Web page http//www.cs.northwestern.edu/ychen/cl
  asses/cs340-w08/
• Recitation TBD.
• TA lectures on the homework and projects, and
  help to prepare the exams.
• Newsgroup is available
• cs.340 (posting Q A for homework projects)
• Have to use VPN if access from outside campus
• Send emails to instructor and TA for questions
  inappropriate in newsgroup

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Project 1 Out Wed.

• Electrical submission due 1159pm, 1/18
• Project description
• Six additional handout materials online
• Minet Sockets 
• The TLab Cluster
• The Minet TCP/IP Stack
• Sockets in a Nutshell 
• UNIX System Programming on a Nutshell 
• Useful UNIX Tools