| Lecturer/Manager | Professor Dan Rubenstein |
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| Office hours: | Location: CEPSR 816 By appointment only. The best way to contact me is via e-mail |
| Office phone: | (212) 854-0050 |
| Email address: | dsr100@columbia.edu |
| Day & Time Class | Through CVN only |
| Credits for Course: | 4.5 |
| Class Type: | Lecture |
| Teaching Assistant: | None for the Summer '03 session |
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| Description: | We are rapidly approaching an era in
which the Internet will be the primary means of
communication and information exchange. Already,
millions use e-mail as a routine form of communication,
and the World Wide Web (WWW) has become a primary source
for gaining access to enormous volumes of information,
as well as to a variety of services, such as on-line
shopping, stock trading, and banking.
This course was designed to bring students up to the state of the art in networking research with a focus on Internet technologies, and to provide the tools necessary to allow students to stay current after the course ends. The course was taught in Fall 2000 and hence is somewhat dated, since networking is a rapidly changing field. The course will cover a blend of theoretical topics and cite practical examples, mainly from the Internet. Since this is a 4.5 credit graduate-level course, the pace will be fast. |
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| Homework(s): | Between 3 and 5 written homework assignments, plus 3 to 5 programming assignments. These assignments will not be collected, nor will they contribute to your grade. It is recommended that you still attempt them since this is the best way to learn the material. |
| Project(s): | None for the Summer '03 session. |
| Paper(s): | Additional readings are available on the handouts webpage to provide additional details on selected topics. |
| Midterm exam: | Summer '03 session has no midterm exame |
| Final exam: | August 1st, 2003, Closed book |
| Grading: | Final 100%. Some students do not like the fact that their grade is based entirely on the final exam. If you do not like this policy, you have the option of not taking this course. Note that 4710 is offered by the same instructor, is a more up-to-date course (taught this past Spring) and grading is based on a midterm and final. |
| Computer hardware and software requirements: | Computer account. Access to a Linux or Solaris machine is assumed. Programming projects can be done in C or C++. |
| Date | # | Topics/Chapters Covered | Assigned | Due |
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| 5/29 | 1 (9/5) | Course Info, Intro, Protocol Layering, Socket Programming (Chapter 1) | HW#0, PA#1 | |
| 6/1 | 2 (9/12) | Internet Hardware / Addressing / DNS (Chapter 2-2.5, 4.3-4.4, 5.3.4-7.11) | HW#1 | |
| 6/5 | 3 (9/19) | Transport Layer Services, End-to-end Argument, Connection setup, reliability, flow control (Chapter 3-3.5) | PA#2 | PA#1 |
| 6/8 | 4 (9/26) | Transport Layer Services: TCP Connection setup and flow control, congestion control (Chapter 3.6-3.8) | HW#1 | |
| 6/12 | 5 (10/3) | Queueing and Fast Lookups (Chapter 4.6, 6.6) | HW#2 | |
| 6/19 | 6 (10/10) | Network Layer Routing (Chapter 4.1-4.5, 4.7-4.9) | PA#2 | |
| 6/22 | 7 (10/17) | Midterm | HW#2 | |
| 7/3 | 8 (10/24) | Multicast and Link Layer (Chapter 5) | PA#3 | |
| 7/9 | 9 (10/31) | Multimedia Networking (Chapter 6) | HW#3 | PA#3 |
| 7/10 | 10 (11/7) | Election Day: No Class | ||
| 7/17 | 11 (11/14) | No Class | HW#3 | |
| 7/20 | 12 (11/21) | Network-Layer Support for Multimedia Apps (Chapter 6.7-6.10) | ||
| 7/24 | 13 (11/28) | Active Queue Management / Fairness / Inference | ||
| 7/31 | 14 (12/5) | Network Security | ||
| 8/1 | Final Exam |