CSE 677 -- Introduction to Computer Networking (UG 3 credit)

Instructor:         Prasun Sinha    (prasun@cse.ohio-state.edu) 

Office hours:     MW 11am - 12noon, DL 791                           

 

Section 1:

Class timings: 12:30pm - 1:18pm: DL 317

TA: Yin Huai (huaiyin.thu@gmail.com) Office hours: 11am-12noon TUE, THU, Caldwell 407.

 

Section 2:

Class timings: 1:30pm - 2:18pm: BO 428   

TA: Xiaoyin Ge (ge.29@osu.edu) Office hours: 10-11am TUE, 12:30-1:30 WED, DL680

 

              

Class webpage:  http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~prasun/677    

Discussion Group: http://groups.google.com/group/cse677au09 (Apply for group membership if you are not a member)

 

Homeworks

     HW1 (Due: Oct 12th, Monday) SOL1 (Section 1 avg = 27, Section 2 avg = 28)

     HW2 (Due: Oct 26th, Monday) SOL2 (Section 1 avg = 36, Section 2 avg = 32)

 

     HW3 (Due: Nov 18th, Wednesday) SOL 3

 

     HW4 (Due: Nov 30th, Friday)

 

 

 

 

Midterm Solutions (Section 1 avg = 74, Section 2 avg = 76)

 

(Most of the material of the lecture slides available here are based on slides  made available by the authors of the textbook namely, Kurose and Ross)

 

             

Sep 23

What is the Internet? Protocol Layers

[ch1-part1]

 

Sep 25

Packet Loss and Delay, HTTP

[ch2-part1]

 

Sep 28

DNS

[ch2-part2]

 

Sep 30

SMTP

--

 

 
Oct 2

P2P

[ch2-part3] (Edition 5 only)

 
Oct 5

P2P

---

 

 

Oct 7

UDP

[ch3-part1]

 

 

Oct 9

Selective Repeat

[ch3-part2]

 

Oct 12

Fast Retransmit

[ch3-part3]

 

HW 1 due

(beginning of class)

Oct 14

Slow Start

--

 

 

Oct 16

Congestion Control

[ch3-part4]

 

Oct 19

Transport Layer

--

 

 

Oct 21

Network Layer

[ch4-part1]

 

Oct 23

NAT

[ch4-part2]

 

Oct 26

Routing, ICMP, IPv6

[ch4-part3] [ch4-part4]

 HW 2 due

(beginning of class)

Oct 28

REVIEW FOR EXAM I

midterm information

 

Oct 30

In class 48 minutes Exam I

 

 

 

Nov 2

Routing Protocols

--

 

Nov 4

RIP, OSPF, BGP

[ch4-part5]

 

Nov 6

Multicast

[ch4-part6]

 

Nov 9

Multicast

--

Nov 11

Veteran's Day (Holiday)

 

 

Nov 13 CRC, MAC protocols  
Nov 16 Link Layer Addressing, ARP    
Nov 18 ---
--
 HW 3 due (beginning of regular class time)
Nov 18

EXTRA LECTURE 5-6:18pm

(Hubs and Switches)

Scott Lab: SOE0040

Video of the lecture (apologies for the poor sound quality)

part 1; part 2; part 3

  
Nov 20 Ethernet  
Nov 23

NO CLASS

 
Nov 25

NO CLASS

 

Nov 27

Columbus Day (Holiday)

 

 

Nov 30

Hubs and Switches

   HW 4 due(beginning of class)
Dec 2

 

REVIEW FOR EXAM II

[ch5-part5] (Slides 3-10, subsection: Synthesis: a day in the life of a web request is only in Edition 5)
  

Dec 4

In-class 48 minutes Exam II: (Not Comprehensive: only from material covered in class after the midterm)

final.ppt

 

 

Topics: Data communications, network architectures, communication protocols, data link control, medium access control; introduction to local area networks and wide area networks; introduction to Internet and TCP/IP

 

Prerequisites:    Physics 112 or 132; CSE 360 or ECE 265; and CSE 459.21.

Textbook

    1. James E. Kurose and Keith W. Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet,
      Fifth Edition, Addison Wesley. Online resource (including errata, quizzes etc.) related to the text is available       online. 

 

 

Grading

4 Homeworks

30

Exam I

35

Exam II

35

 

Homeworks: Homeworks will be due at the beginning of the class.

Some useful pointers