| Day | Date | Topic | Readings |
| Monday | Sep 3 | Introduction/Brainstorm/Web Clients & Proxies | K&R Ch 1-3 |
| Monday | Sep 10 | [Class Cancelled] | |
| Monday | Sep 17 | Web Servers/Performance Problems/Traffic Measurement | K&R Ch 4, 9 |
| Monday | Sep 24 | Protocols used by HTTP/Web Workloads | K&R Ch 5,10,14 |
| Monday | Oct 1 | HTTP | K&R Ch 6-8 |
| Wednesday | Oct 10 | Caching | K&R Ch 11, 13 (except 13.2-13.3) and papers |
| Monday | Oct 15 | Prefetching | K&R Ch 13.2-13.3 and papers |
| Monday | Oct 22 | HTTP Protocol Research | K&R Ch 15 and papers |
| Monday | Oct 29 | Content Delivery Networks | papers |
| Monday | Nov 5 | Search Engines/Spiders | papers |
| Monday | Nov 12 | Backbone characteristics/Multimedia Streaming | K&R Ch 12 and papers |
| Wednesday | Nov 14 | Dynamic Content/Peer-to-Peer | papers |
| Monday | Nov 19 | Measurement and Evaluation (SUMMARY DUE) | papers |
| Monday | Nov 26 | Network Gaming/Performance | papers |
| Monday | Dec 3 | Final Presentations/Course&Peer Evaluations | |
| Wednesday | Dec 12 | 8am-11am Final Presentations (FINAL PAPER DUE) |