Lectures and Notes
Lecture notes
Each completed lecture has two types of notes:
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“Blank” notes contain the unannotated notes and slides shown in class. During lecture, the instructor will annotate the slides and add more notes. We recommend using this version to take notes while following along with the lecture. Keep in mind these versions are inherently incomplete, because we will fill in examples during class!
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“Class Notes” are the fully-annotated notes resulting from the lecture. These are the most complete sets of notes.
Readings
Some of the readings listed here refer to sections of our various (not required) class textbooks, keyed by the name of the first author, specifically:
- Dordal: “An Introduction to Computer Networks” by Peter Dordal. (Available free online).
- Peterson: “Computer Networks: A Systems Approach” (5th edition), by Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie.
| Date | Topics | Notes | Readings & Resources |
| Intro | |||
| Th, 8 Sep | L1 - Intro [No PLQ] [Class Notes][Video] |
HW0 out | |
| T, 13 Sep | L2 - Layering, Sockets demo [PLQ] [Blank: PDF PPTX] [Class Notes][Video] |
HW0 due; Snowcast out | Dordal 1.1-1.3 |
| Th, 15 Sep | L3 - More on sockets [PLQ] [Class Notes][Video] |
Sockets demo code | |
| T, 20 Sep | L4 - Sockets and concurrency [PLQ] [Class Notes][Video] |
Demo code (v2) | |
| Th, 22 Sep | L5 - Pysical/Link layer [No PLQ] [Blank: PDF PPTX] [Class Notes][Video] |
Dordal 6 | |
| Network Layer - Data Plane | |||
| T, 27 Sep | L6 - Link layer and switching [PLQ] [Blank: PDF PPTX] [Class Notes][Video] |
Dordal 2 (mostly 2.4) | |
| W, 28 Sep | Snowcast due | ||
| Th, 29 Sep | L7 - IP I [PLQ] [Blank: PDF PPTX] [Class Notes][Video] |
Dordal 9.1-9.3, 9.5-6 | |
| T, 4 Oct | L8 - IP II [PLQ] [Blank: PDF PPTX] [Class Notes][Video] |
Dordal 9.5-6 | |
| Network Layer - Control Plane | |||
| Th, 6 Oct | L9 - IP III [PLQ] [Blank: PDF PPTX] [Class Notes][Video] |
Dordal 9.6-5, 10.2 (ARP), 10.3 (DHCP), 9.7 (NAT) | |
| T, 11 Oct | L10 - NAT; Routing I [No PLQ] [Blank: PDF PPTX] [Class Notes][Video] |
Dordal 9.7 (NAT), 13-13.2 (RIP) | |
| Th, 13 Oct | L11 - Routing II [PLQ] [Blank: PDF PPTX] [Class Notes][Video] |
Dordal 13-13.2 (RIP); 13.5 (Link state) | |
| T, 18 Oct | L12 - Routing III (BGP I) [No PLQ] [Blank: PDF PPTX] [Class Notes][Video] |
Dordal 14.1; 15.1-4 | |
| Transport Layer | |||
| Th, 20 Oct | L13 - Routing IV (BGP II) [PLQ] [Blank: PDF PPTX] [Class Notes][Video] |
Dordal 15.5-15.7, 15.9 | |
| T, 25 Oct | L14 - BGP security, Ports and Sockets [No PLQ] [Blank: PDF PPTX] [Class Notes][Video] |
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| Th, 27 Oct | L15 - TCP I [No PLQ] [Blank: PDF PPTX] [Class Notes][Video] |
Dordal 1.12, 16, 17.1-3 | |
| T, 1 Nov | L16 - TCP II [PLQ] [Blank: PDF PPTX] [Class Notes][Video] |
Dordal 8, 17.3-7, 18.1, 18.7 | |
| Th, 3 Nov | L17 - TCP III [Blank: PDF PPTX] [Class Notes][Video] |
Dordal 8, Dordal 18.7-9 RFC 9293 Sec 3.3.1, 3.4 Window animation Window animation (lossy) |
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| T, 8 Nov | Election Day - No class | ||
| Th, 10 Nov | L18 - TCP IV [Blank: PDF PPTX] [Class Notes][Video] |
Dordal 17.3, 18.2, 18.8-14 | |
| Applications and Protocols | |||
| T, 15 Nov | L19 - TCP V [Blank: PDF PPTX] [Class Notes][Video] |
Dordal 19-22 | |
| Th, 17 Nov | L20 - TCP VI, DNS [Blank: PDF PPTX] [Class Notes][Video] |
Dordal 19-22; Dordal 10.1 | |
| M, 21 Nov | TCP Due | ||
| T, 22 Nov | L21 - IPoAC and more [Blank: PDF PPTX] [Class Notes][Video] |
Start of video includes info on packet capture for TCP | Dordal 10.1 |
| Th, 24 Nov | Thanksgiving Break - No class | ||
| M, 21 Nov | Final project out | ||
| T, 29 Nov | L22 - DNS II [PLQ] [Blank: PDF PPTX] [Class Notes][Video] |
Dordal 10.1 | |
| Th, 1 Dec | L23 - HTTP [Blank: PDF PPTX] [Class Notes][Video] |
Dordal 29.7 | |
| T, 6 Dec | L24 - HTTP, CDNs, TLS [PLQ] [Blank: PDF PPTX] [Class Notes][Video] |
Dordal 28.5-8; Dordal 29.1-4 | |
| Th, 8 Dec | L25 - Wrapup [Blank: PDF PPTX] [Class Notes][Video] |
Dordal 29.1-29.5 |