- Instructor: Xin Jin
- Teaching assistant: Hang Zhu
- Course assistants: Venkata Aditya Bollapragada, Mengying Hu, Zhiyuan Li, Antara Sargam, Siddharth Syal
- Lecture time: Tuesday and Thursday, 12:00-1:15pm
- Location: Shaffer 301
- Credits: 3 credits
- Course discussion: piazza
- Homework submission: Gradescope, join the course with entry code M6PWYP
- Office hours
- Tuesday 1:15pm-2:30pm, Malone 233, Xin Jin
- Friday 2pm-3pm, Malone 235, Hang Zhu
Topics covered will include application layer protocols (e.g. HTTP, FTP, SMTP), transport layer protocols (UDP, TCP), network layer protocols (e.g. IP, ICMP), link layer protocols (e.g. Ethernet) and wireless protocols (e.g. IEEE 802.11). The course will also cover routing protocols such as link state and distance vector, multicast routing, and path vector protocols (e.g. BGP). The class will examine security issues such as firewalls and denial of service attacks. We will also study DNS, NAT, Web caching and CDNs, peer to peer, and protocol tunneling. Finally, we will explore security protocols (e.g. TLS, SSH, IPsec), as well as some basic cryptography necessary to understand these. Grading will be based on hands-on programming assignments, homeworks and two exams.
EN.601.220 and EN.601.229 or permission. Students can only receive credits for one of 601.414/614.
- Friday, February 2: Assignment 1 is out.
- Monday, January 29: Join piazza.
| Date | Topics | Readings | Notes |
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| Tue 01/30 | Introduction | ||
| Thu 02/01 | Basic | 1.1, 1.3 | |
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| Thu 03/15 | Midterm Exam | ||
| Tue 03/20 | Spring Break | ||
| Thu 03/22 | Spring Break | ||
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Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (7th edition), by Jim Kurose and Keith Ross. Earlier editions are fine.
- Assignment 1: Network measurement.
This course strictly enforces the university and department policies on academic integrity. The details can be found on the department website.
- Grace period: 96 hours for the entire semester.
- After the grace period, 25% off for each 24 hours late, rounded up.
- Class participation: 5%
- Programming assignments: 40%
- Midterm exam: 25%
- Final exam: 30%