Date   #   Topics/chapters covered   Reading (before class)   Assigned   Due  
1/21   1   Intro / Internet Protocol Stack   Chapter 1      
1/23   2   Probability refresher: discrete     HW #1 [PS,PDF] (due 2/4)    
1/28   3   Probability refresher: continuous        
1/30   4   NO CLASS        
2/4   5   Physical Layer       HW #1 (solutions) [PDF]  
2/6   6   Datalink Layer: Error Detection and Correction   Chapter 3-3.3   HW #2 [PS,PDF] (due 2/13)    
2/11   7   Datalink Layer: stop & wait, sliding window and their analysis   Section 2.3      
2/13   8   Datalink Layer: Medium Access sublayer, collision avoidance: TDMA, FDMA, CDMA       HW #2 (solutions) [PDF]  
2/18   9   Network Layer: Shortest path routing algorithms   Chapter 4-4.2, 4.4   HW #3 [PS,PDF] (due 2/27)    
2/20   10   Network Layer: Distance Vector and Link State        
2/25   11   Network Layer: Multicast, Tunneling       HW #3 (solutions) [PDF]  
2/27   12   Network Layer: Addressing (CIDR)   Chapter 5-5.2      
3/4   13   Network Layer wrapup     HW #4 [PS,PDF] (due 3/11)    
3/6   14   Transport Layer: reliability       HW #4 (solutions) [PDF]  
3/11   15   Transport Layer: congestion control        
3/13   16   MIDTERM EXAM        
3/18   17   Spring Break: NO CLASS        
3/20   18   Spring Break: NO CLASS        
3/25   19   Transport Layer: congestion control II (AQM)        
3/27   20   Catchup / review        
4/1   21   Transport Layer: multimedia (jitter control, ...)        
4/3   22   Transport Layer: Multicast group concept     HW #5 [PS,PDF] (due 4/10)    
4/8   23   Transport Layer: Fairness I (TCP, max-min)        
4/10   24   Transport Layer: Fairness II (proportional)     HW #6 [PS,PDF] (due 4/17)   HW #5 (solutions) [PDF]  
4/15   25   Transport Layer: wrapup        
4/17   26   Application Layer: DNS model     HW #7 [PS,PDF](due 4/24)   HW #6 (solutions) [PDF]  
4/22   27   Application Layer: P2P model        
4/24   28   Large-scale phenomena: self-similar traffic, heavy-tailed distributions     HW #8 [PS,PDF] (due 5/1)   HW #7 (solutions) [PDF]  
4/30   29   Large-scale phenomena: Internet power law growth        
5/1   30   Review or special topics       HW #8 (solutions) [PDF]  
5/13     Final Exam, 9am-12pm, 1024 Mudd