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 369

 

Section 2:

Class timings: 1:30pm - 2:18pm: DL 369 

 

TA (both sections): Kazuya Sakai sakai.16@buckeyemail.osu.edu: F 3-5pm: Caldwell Lab 420
             

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

Discussion Group: http://groups.google.com/group/cse677au11 (Apply for group membership if you are not a member)

 

If you want to add the class and the class is full, please email me.

 

Homeworks

     HW1 revised (Due: Oct 10th, Monday) Solution 1

     HW2 (Due: Oct 24th, Monday) Solution 2

     HW3 (Revised Nov 9) (Due: Nov 14th, Monday) Solution 3

     HW4 (Due: Nov 28th, Monday)Solution 4

 

 

 

 

 

(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 21

What is the Internet? Protocol Layers

[ch1-part1]

recommended youtube video: History of the Internet (8 min 10 sec)

 

Sep 23

Packet Loss and Delay, HTTP

[ch2-part1]

 

Sep 26

DNS

[ch2-part2]

 

Sep 28

SMTP

--

 

 
Sep 30

P2P

[ch2-part3] (Edition 5 only)

[errata]

 
Oct 3

P2P

---

 

 

Oct 5

UDP

[ch3-part1]

 

 

Oct 7

Selective Repeat

[ch3-part2]

 

Oct 10

Fast Retransmit

[ch3-part3]

 

HW 1 due

(beginning of class)

Oct 12

Slow Start

--

 

 

Oct 14

Congestion Control

[ch3-part4]

 

Oct 17

Transport Layer

--

 

 

Oct 19

Network Layer

[ch4-part1]

 

Oct 21

NAT

[ch4-part2]

 

Oct 24

Routing, ICMP, IPv6

[ch4-part3] [ch4-part4]

 HW 2 due

(beginning of class)

Oct 26

REVIEW FOR EXAM I

 

 

Oct 28

EXAM 1 (In class 48 minutes)

midterm information

 

 

Oct 31

Routing Protocols,

--

 

Nov 2

Routing Protocols (contd.)

[ch4-part5]

 

Nov 4

RIP, OSPF, BGP

--

 

Nov 7

Multicast

[ch4-part6]

Nov 9

CRC

[ch5-part1]

 

Nov 11 Veteran's Day (Holiday)
 
Nov 14 MAC protocols
--
     HW 3 due (beginning of class)
Nov 16 Link Layer Addressing
 
Nov 18 ARP
--
  
 
Nov 21

Ethernet

 
Nov 23

Hubs

 

Nov 25

Columbus Day (Holiday)

 

 

Nov 28

Switches
  HW 4 due(beginning of class)
Nov 30

 

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 2

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

Exam II information

 

 

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.  (Edition 4 is fine too, but a few sections are not in the old edition - see the table above)

 

 

Grading

4 Homeworks

30

Exam I

35

Exam II

35

 

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

Some useful pointers