Week/Date

Topic

Textbook Section⁺

1 (Feb 16^th)

Introduction and Layered Network Architecture – Lecture Notes

Chapter 1 (Gallager)

2 (Feb 23^rd)

Physical Layer (channels and Modems), Error Detection – Lecture Notes - You should be taking notes from the board for this topic.

Sections 2.1, 2.2 & 2.3 (Gallager)

3 (Mar 1^st)*

ARQ Strategies,  Framing, Standard DLCs - Lecture Notes

Sections 2.8, 2.9 and 2.10 are designated as Reading Assignment

Sections 2.4, 2.5, & 2.6  (Gallager)

4 (Mar 8^th)

Review of Probability, Statistics and Basics of Markov Processes - Lecture Notes

Chapter 3 (Garcia) – preferably 4 and 5 too.

5 (Mar 15^th)

Review of Probability, Statistics and Basics of Markov Processes

Introduction to Delay Models (Little’s Formula, M/M/1 Model) - Refer to Examples of Little's Formula Application

Chapter 3 & 9 (Garcia) – preferably 4 and 5 too.

6 (Mar 22^th)

Introduction to Delay Models (M/M/c and derivative Models, basic M/G/1 formulas, Burke’s Theorem, Jackson’s Theorem)

Chapter 3 (Gallager) & Chapter 9 (Garcia)

7 (Mar 29^th)

Multiaccess Communication (Aloha, Tree Algorithms, CSMA, Reservation, FDMA/TDMA, CDMA, etc.)

Sections 4.1, 4.2 & 4.3 (Gallager) + notes

8 (Apr 5^th)

Multiaccess Communication (Aloha, Tree Algorithms, CSMA, Reservation, FDMA/TDMA, CDMA, etc.)

Sections 4.1, 4.2 & 4.3 (Gallager) + notes

9 (Apr 19^th)

(Introduction - covered in previous packages) Application Layer (Principles, Web/HTTP, FTP, Email, DNS)

Sections 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 (Kurose)

Midterm Exam (Week of April 5^th – Thursday April 10^th)

10 (Apr 26^th)

Transport Layer (Multixplexing, Demultiplexing, Connectionless (UDP)/ Connection-Oriented (TCP) protocols)

Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.5 (Kurose)

11 (May 3^rd)

Transport Layer (Congestion Control, TCP Congestion Control)

Sections 3.6, 3.7, & 3.8 (Kurose)

12 (May 10^th)

Network Layer (Routing Principles, Hierarchical Routings, Internet Protocol)

Sections 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 & 4.4 (Kurose)

13 (May 17^th)

Network Layer (Routing in the Internet, Router Operation, IPv6, etc.)

Sections 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, … (Kurose)

14 (May 24^th)

Presentation of Projects

15 (May 31^st)

Presentation of Projects

Final Exam (Comprehensive – Scheduled by Registrar)