Lecture Plan

(01/22) Lecture 1
Course Overview Slides
Readings: A Brief History of the Internet

The Internet: Architectural Principles and Design Contexts

(01/27) Lecture 2
Sharing the Network: Circuits and Packets Slides
Readings: P&D, Section 1.2
Announcement: Problem Set 1 Released
(01/29) Lecture 3
The Internet: Why "Packets"? Slides
Readings: P&D, Section 1.3
Advanced readings: End-to-End Arguments in System Design, Tussle in Cyberspace: Defining Tomorrow's Internet
(02/03) Lecture 4
How does the Internet work: An End-to-end view Slides
Readings: P&D, Section 1.5
Advanced readings: The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols
(02/05) Lecture 5
The Internet: Architectural Principles and Goals Slides
Readings: P&D, Section 1.4

Link Layer: Addressing, and Broadcasting (Frames)

(02/10) Lecture 6
Link Layer: Ethernet and CSMA/CD Slides
Readings: P&D, Section 2.5 & Section 2.6
Announcement: Problem Set 1 Solutions Released (on Ed Discussions), Problem Set 2 Released
(02/12) Lecture 7
"Frames" & Scalability Issues with Broadcast Ethernet Slides
Readings: P&D, Section 3.2.1 & Section 3.2.2
(02/17) No class: February break
(02/19) Lecture 8
Spanning Tree Protocol Slides
Readings: P&D, Section 3.3.1
Announcement: Practice Prelim 1 and Solutions Released (Ed Discussions)
(02/24) Prelim 1 (In class)

Network Layer: Addressing, Routing, and Forwarding (Packets)

(02/26) Lecture 09
Fundamentals of Routing, Intra-domain Routing Slides
Readings: P&D, Section 3.3
Announcement: Problem Set 2 Solutions Released (on Ed Discussions), Problem Set 3 Released
(03/03) Lecture 10
Link State and Distance Vector Routing Slides
Readings: P&D, Section 3.3
Announcement: Learn Socket Programming (Slides, Code, Beej's Guide to Network Programming)
(03/05) Lecture 11
Intra-domain Routing: The harder stuff Slides
Readings: P&D, Section 3.3
(03/10) Lecture 12
IP: The Narrow Waist (Addressing, Switching, Forwarding) Slides
Readings: P&D, Section 3.2, Section 3.4
(03/12) Lecture 13
Inter-domain routing Slides
Readings: P&D, Section 4.1
Announcement: Problem Set 3 Solutions Released (Ed Discussions), Problem Set 4 Released
Advanced readings: 10 Lessons from 10 Years
(03/17) Lecture 14
Inter-domain routing: The harder stuff Slides
Readings: BGP routing policies in ISP networks
Announcement: Problem Set 4 Solutions Released (Ed Discussions), Practice Prelim 2 Released
(03/19) Lecture 15
Inter-domain routing: Even harder stuff Slides
Advanced readings: Stable Paths Problem, Survey of BGP Security
Announcement: Practice Prelim 2 Solutions Released (Ed Discussions)

End-to-end: How the Internet works!

(03/24) Lecture 16
Putting All the Pieces Together Slides
Readings: P&D Section 3.4
(03/26) Prelim 2 (In class)
(03/31) No class: Spring break
(04/02) No class: Spring break

Transport Layer: Reliable and Unreliable Connections.

(04/07) Lecture 17
Reliable Transport and TCP Slides
Readings: P&D, Section 5.1, Section 5.2.1 & Section 5.2.3
Advanced readings: A protocol for packet network intercommunication
Announcement: Problem Set 4 Solutions Released (Ed Discussions), Problem Set 5 Released
(04/09) Lecture 18
Congestion Control Slides
Readings: P&D, Section 5.2
Advanced readings: Analysis of the Increase and Decrease Algorithms
(04/14) Lecture 19
More Congestion Control Slides
Readings: P&D, Section 6.3
Advanced readings: Congestion Avoidance and Control
(04/16) Lecture 20
TCP: Recap and Even More Congestion Control Slides
Readings: P&D, Section 6.4
Announcement:
Advanced readings: Modeling TCP Throughput
(04/21) Lecture 21
Host Network Stacks Slides
Readings: Understanding Host Network Stack Overheads

Looking Forward: Future Internet Architectures and Grand Challenges in Computer Networking!

(04/23) Lecture 22
Datacenter Networks Slides
Readings: Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing, Jupiter Rising, How Google Does it
Advanced readings: OpenFlow
(04/28) Lecture 23
Networks for ML Slides
Readings: Future Internet architecture: Clean-slate vs. evolutionary research
Announcement:
(04/30) Lecture 24
The Host Network Slides
Readings: Understanding the Host Network
(05/05) Lecture 25
Future of Computer Networks Slides
Readings: Future Internet architecture: Clean-slate vs. evolutionary research
Announcement: Problem Set 5 Solutions Released, Practice Final Released (Ed Discussions)
Advanced readings: The Future of Networking and the Past of Protocols, Why the Internet Only Just Works
(Date to be announced)
Final (Time and Location to be announced)