CSE404/ECE404 Tentative Schedule (Fall 2010)
http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~cheng/Teaching/CSEECE404-10/schedule.html
- Introduction and Socket Programming (3 hours):
- 08/31: Course introduction, network architecture (OSI/Internet), Layering and protocols, hardware building blocks
- 09/02: Socket API, examples, implementing network software
- Direct Link Networks (12 hours):
- 09/07: Stop-and-wait and go-back-n ARQ protocols, individual project introduction
- 09/09: Correctness of ARQ protocol
- 09/14: ARQ efficiency
- 09/16: ARQ efficiency, Project, Encoding
- 09/21: Framing, Error detection
- 09/23: Ethernet (IEEE 802.3), Wireless LAN
- 09/28: ALOHA and its efficiency, Individual Project Progress Presentation Slides due
- 09/30: Individual Project Progress Presentation, Token rings (IEEE 802.5), MAC recap
- 10/05: Library book-study for the project
- Packet Switching (3 hours):
- 10/07: Switching and forwarding
- 10/12: Pacing Break
- 10/14: Midterm exam
- 10/19: Bridges and LAN switches, IP, classful addressing
- Internetworking (9 hours):
- 10/21: Subnetting, ARP, midterm review
- 10/26: Routing/forwarding table, IP fragmentation, ICMP
- 10/28: DHCP, distance vector routing
- 11/02: Distance vector routing, link state routing
- 11/04: interdomain routing
- Ad hoc time slots after 11/04: Hands-on lab at PL 608 (basic router configuration, manual)
- End-to-End Protocols and Data (4.5 hours):
- 11/09: End-to-end issues, UDP, TCP
- 11/11: TCP state diagram, FIRM deadline of the individual project Report and Demo
- 11/16: Major issues addressed by TCP
- Congestion Control and Resource Allocation (3 hours):
- 11/18: TCP congestion control
- 11/23: TCP congestion control examples
- 11/25: Thanksgiving Break
- Application Layer Protocols (4.5 hours):
- 11/30: Congestion avoidance, DNS, World-Wide Web (HTTP & HTML)
- 12/02: Email systems (SMTP & MIME), network security in a nutshell
- 12/07: Hands-on lab at PL 112 (Lab Manual on Firewall and Wireshark)
- 12/09: Course review
- Final Exam Date, Time,and Location: CSE 404010 WED DEC 15 2010 12:00-03:00 PM MG 480
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