Course Resources

Some Other Networking Books

1. Davie and Peterson, Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, 3rd Ed. 2003. [more technical detail]
2. Stallings, W. Data and Computer Communications, 7th Edition, 2003. [more technical detail]
3. James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, 3rd Edition.
4. Tanenbaum, A. Computer Networks, 4th Ed., 2002
5. Beyda, W., Data Communications: From Basics to Broadband, 3rd Ed., 1999. [overview style]
6. Comer, D. Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol. I: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture [good protocol details]
7. Comer, D. Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol. III Client-Server Programming and Applications-Windows Sockets Version
8. Stevens, W.R., TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1 : The Protocols (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
9. Huitema, C.  Routing in the Internet, 2nd Ed., 1999. [all about routing]
10. Donahoo and Calvert, TCP/IP Sockets in C: Practical Guide for Programmers (The Practical Guides Series)
11. Donahoo and Calvert, TCP/IP Sockets in Java: Practical Guide for Programmers
12. Deitel and Deitel, Java How to Program (How to Program Series)  [some network programming coverage]

Key Papers and Documents on Protocol and Architecture

H. Zimmerman, "OSI Reference Model -- The ISO Model of Architecture for Open Systems Interconnection", IEEE Transactions on Communications, 28(4), April, 1980, pp. 425-432.

J. Postel, "Internet Protocol", RFC 791, Sept 1981.

J. Postel, "Transmission Control Protocol", RFC 793, Sept 1981.

J. Saltzer, D. Reed, and D. Clark, "End-to-end arguments in system design", ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 1984. (citation)

D. Clark, "The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols", ACM SIGCOMM, 106-114, Palo Alto, CA, Sept 1988. (citation)

D. Clark and D. L. Tennenhouse, "Architectural considerations for a new generation of protocols," ACM SIGCOMM, 1990.

B. Carpenter. "Architectural Principles of the Internet", RFC 1958, June 1996.

D. Clark and M. Blumental. Rethinking the Design of the Internet: The End-to-end Arguments vs. the Brave New World. Telecom Policy Research Conference, Sep 2000. (paper)

L. McKnight and J. Bailey, An Introduction to Internet Economics (html); introductory chapter to L. McKnight and J. Bailey, Eds., Internet Economics, MIT Press, 1997. (book)(online proceedings of original 1995 workshop)

Networking and Other Standards Organizations

Tools and Applets

Experimental Research Tools

Internet Traffic Archive (http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/ITA/): repository of network traces [skim]

Web cache simulator (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~cao/webcache-simulator.html)

Topology generators: GT-ITM, tiers, Inet; topology generation for ns (http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/ns-topogen.html)

E. W. Zegura, K. L. Calvert, and S. Bhattacharjee. How to model an internetwork. In Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, March 1996. (citation)

Projects from Previous Years

Socket Programming References

• The GNU C Library - Sockets http://www.isys.net/susehilf/gnu/libc/Sockets.html

• Programming UNIX Sockets in C - Frequently Asked Questions http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/facilities/documentation/unix/unix-socket-faq/unix-socket-faq.html

• Sockets Programming http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/comms/sockets.html

• Socket Interface http://www.netbook.cs.purdue.edu/cs363/lecture_notes/chap22/chap22_0.html

• BSD Sockets: A Quick and Dirty Primer http://world.std.com/~jimf/papers/sockets/sockets.html

• Beej's Guide to Network Programming http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/guide/net

• Sockets Tutorial http://www.cs.rpi.edu/courses/sysprog/sockets/sock.html

• Debugging with the GNU Source Level Debugger http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/gdb/gdb_toc.html.

• The Unix Programming Environment http://www.unix-ag.uni-siegen.de/docs/unix/unix.html

Other Links

Note: If you find good links you'd like to share with the class, email them to me.