| Mth | Day | Topic | Read before class | Slides | Events |
| Sep | 2 | Course overview and logistics;
Introduction to networking; 206 review |
Chapters 1-3, 16 | 1/6
1/6 |
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| 4 | Communication Fundamentals | Chapter 4 | 1/6 | ||
| 9 | Physical media; Data encoding | Chapter 5 | 1/6
1/6 |
HW1 due | |
| 11 | Data encoding | Chapter 6 | |||
| 16 | Channel capacity, multiplexing, info theory | 1/6 | |||
| 18 | Framing, Error detection | Chapter 7 | 1/6 | ||
| 23 | Error detection; Local area networks | Chapters 8-9 | 1/6 | HW2 due
Project signup |
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| 25 | Local area networks | Chapters 10-11 | |||
| 30 | Local loop technologies | Chapter 12 | HW3 due | ||
| Oct | 2 | Wide area networks; Routing | Chapter 13 | 1/6 | |
| 7 | Routing; Internet Routing | Chapter 25 | 1/6 | HW4 due | |
| 9 | Internet Protocol: Introduction | Chapter 17 | 1/6 | ||
| 14 | IP addressing | Chapter 18 | |||
| 16 | IP datagram | Chapter 20-21 | 1/6 | HW5 due | |
| 21 | ICMP; mid-semester review | Chapter 23 | 1/6
1/6 |
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| 23 | Exam 1 | ||||
| 28 | IPv6; Project presentations begin | Chapter 22 | 1/6 | ||
| 30 | IPv6; presentations | ||||
| Nov | 4 | TCP; presentations | Chapter 24 | 1/6 | |
| 6 | TCP; presentations | HW6 due | |||
| 11 | Veterans Day -- No Class | ||||
| 13 | TCP; presentations | ||||
| 18 | TCP; Network Economics; presentations | 1/6 | |||
| 20 | Guest Lecture: DoS attacks: Detection and
Prevention (Dr. Ahsan Habib) |
1/6 | |||
| 25 | Guest Lecture: Wireless Sensor Networks (Jens Grossklags) | HW7 due | |||
| 27 | Thanksgiving -- No Class | ||||
| Dec | 2 | Network Economics; presentations | |||
| 4 | Network Economics; Course Review and Evaluation | 1/6 | |||
| 9 | Exam 2 (3:30-5pm, SH 202) |