http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~cheng/Teaching/CSEECE404-07/schedule.html
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Introduction and Socket Programming (4.5 hours):

08/28: Course introduction, network architecture (OSI/Internet), hardware building blocks, layering and protocols

08/30: Implementing network software, API

09/04: Sockets, examples, individual project introduction

Direct Link Networks (10.5 hours):

09/06: Reliable transmission (ARQ protocols)

09/11: ARQ protocols

09/13: ARQ efficiency

09/18: Encoding, framing, error detection

09/20: CRC, Ethernet (IEEE 802.3)

09/24: Token rings (IEEE 802.5), Wireless LAN (802.11)

09/25: ALOHA and its efficiency, switching

09/27: Individual Project Progress Presentation Slides due

10/02: Individual Project Progress Presentation

Packet Switching (3 hours):

09/27: Bridges and LAN switches

10/02: Individual Project Progress Presentation

10/11: LAN switches and midterm review

10/04: Midterm Exam

10/09: Pacing Break

Internetworking (7.5 hours):

10/16: IP, subnetting

10/18: ARP, DHCP, encapsulation

10/23: Fragmentation, ICMP, Distance vector routing

10/25: Hands-on lab at PL 608 (basic router configuration, manual)

10/30: Link state routing, Interdomain routing

11/05: FIRM deadline of the individual project Report and Demo

End-to-End Protocols and Data (3 hours):

11/01: End-to-end issues, UDP, TCP

11/06: TCP state diagram and major issues addressed by TCP

Congestion Control and Resource Allocation (4.5 hours):

11/08: TCP congestion control

11/13: TCP congestion control

11/15: Congestion-avoidance mechanisms

Network Security (4.5 hours):

11/20: Cryptographic algorithms (DES/AES, RSA, MD5)

11/22: Thanksgiving Break

11/27: Security services

11/29: Hands-on lab at PL 112 (Lab manual on Firewall and Wireshark)

Data Presentationand Applications (3 hours):

12/04: Presentation formatting, data compression

12/06: DNS, Electronic mail (SMTP, MIME), World-Wide Web (HTTP)

Final Exam Date, Time,and Location: TUE, DEC 11, 2007 08:00-11:OO AM

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