CSE 489/589: Modern Networking Concepts

Introduction

Lecture 1 in pdf: administrative aspects, computer networks -- what and how
Lecture 2 in pdf: nuts and bolts description of the Internet
Lecture 3 in pdf: switching and basic performance measures
Lecture 4 in pdf: service view of the Internet, layering, the TCP/IP reference model

Network Programming

Lecture 5 in pdf: brief intro to TCP/IP's transport layer, TCP, UDP, and Unix network programming API

The application layer

Lecture 6 in pdf: the domain name system (DNS)
Lecture 7 in pdf: the simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP)
Lecture 8 in pdf: peer-to-peer (P2P) applications

The transport layer

Lecture 9 in pdf: intro to transport layer, principles of reliable data transfer
Lecture 10 in pdf: how TCP does it? Reliable data transfer
Lecture 11 in pdf: how TCP does it? Flow control, connection management
Lecture 12 in pdf: principles of congestion control (for transport layer), and how TCP's congestion control works.

The network layer

Lecture 13 in pdf: introduction to the network layer, design goals and issues, E2E argument pros and cons, forwarding, datagram and virtual circuit
Lecture 14 in pdf: principles of routing algorithms and protocols

Dijkstra algorithm demo in power point

Lecture 15 in pdf: dealing with large routing tables -- IP addressing & CIDR. Fragmentation and reassembly.
Lecture 16 in pdf: Internet routing protocols (inter- and intra-domain routing)
Lecture 17 in pdf: Why is inter-domain routing hard to get "right"?
Lecture 18: router design (Many slides in PPT are courtesy of slides from Nick Mckeown of Stanford)

Lecture 18a (PPT, 'cause there are animations): Brief history of router architectures

Gale Shapely Algorithm demo in ppt

Lecture 18b in pdf: switching fabrics
Lecture 18c in pdf: The address lookup problem

The link layer

Lecture 19 in pdf: Introduction to the Data Link layer, more on the principle of error correction/detection
Lecture 20 in pdf: Intro to Multiple Access Control (MAC) protocols
Lecture 21 in pdf: MAC addressing, ARP, and Ethernet
Lecture 22 in pdf: Hubs, switches, and bridges
Lecture 23 in pdf: Intro to Wireless LAN
Lecture 24 in pdf: Intro to Mobile Networking
Lecture 25 in pdf: WLAN security

Epilogue

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