ECS 145, Tuesdays and Thursdays 17:00 - 18:15

Professor: Chi Zhang
Email: czhang AT cs dot fiu dot edu
Phone: 305-348-3751
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 14:00 - 17:00, or by appointment.

Textbook
Computer Networks: A System Approach by Larry L. Peterson and Bruce S. Davie, Third Edition, Morgan Kaufmann 2003 (ISBN: 1-55860-832-X).

References
Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet by James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross, Third Edition, Addison-Wesley 2004 (ISBN: 0-321-22735-2).

Tentative Syllabus

Announcements

• The class on Thursday Jan 12 will be canceled.

Project:  TCP Socket Programming

Midterm: Thur. Mar 3, 2006, 17:00 - 18:15. Open Book (Topics covered: Introduction, Point-to-Point Lins, Shared Access Links, Switching and Forwarding).

Final: Thur. Apr 27, 2006, 15:30 - 18:15. Open Book.

Class Materials

Topics	Book Chapters or Other Materials	Slides
Introduction	Chapter 1, Application Layer Protocols	PDF
Point-to-Point Links	Chapter 2	PDF
Shared Access Networks (Basic Concept Only)	Chapter 2	PDF
Switching and Forwarding	Chapter 3	PDF
Internetworking	Chapter 4	PDF
Scalable Routing	Chapter 4	PDF
TCP/UDP	Chapter 5, Java TCP Socket, Java UDP Socket	PDF
Congestion Control	Chapter 6, Paper on Internet Design Philosophy	PDF
Naming	Chapter 9.1	PDF

Note: Each topic will be covered in 1 ~ 2 weeks.

Quizzes and Homeworks

Due Date	Topics Covered
01/31/06	Circuit Switching vs. Packet Switching, Protocols and Layers, End-to-End Latency
02/16/06	Bit Encoding, Framing, Error Detection, Sliding Window Algorithm
03/30/06	IP Header, IP Address, Fragmentation, Datagram Forwarding, ARP
04/13/06	Distance Vector, Link State, Subnetting, Supernetting

Links

Anmation of Sliding Window Algorithm (Thanks to Luis Polit)