CIS 527-Fall 2003 Course Calendar

Professor Jinhua Guo

 (Subject to Change)

Week	Date	Topics and Notes	Readings	Assigned	Due
1	Thurs, 9/4	Introduction, Requirements	Ch.1
2	Tues, 9/9	Performance Metric A Transmit and Propagation Delay Applet	Ch.1	HW #1	9/18
	Thurs, 9/11	Network Architecture	Ch.1
3	Tues, 9/16	Socket Programming,		Program 1	10/7
	Thurs, 9/18	Program 1 discussion
4	Tues, 9/23	Direct Link Networks Encoding, Framing	Ch.2.1, 2.2, 2.3
	Thurs, 9/25	Error detection, Slide Window Algorithm	Ch.2.4, 2.5	HW1-Solution
5	Tues, 9/30	Ethernet	Ch.2.6
	Thurs, 10/2	Token Rings, FDDI	Ch.2.7	Simulation Lab 1 Report Requirement HW#2	10/28 10/16
6	Tues, 10/7	Token Rings, FDDI	Ch.2.7
	Thurs, 10/9	Wireless 802.11, Bluetooth	Ch.2.8
7	Tues, 10/14	Switching and Forwarding	Ch.3.1
	Thurs, 10/16	Midterm Review		HW2_solution
8	Tues, 10/21	Midterm Exam
	Thurs, 10/23	Bridges	Ch.3.2
9	Tues, 10/28	ATM	Ch. 3.3
	Thurs, 10/30	Internetworking	Ch. 4.1	Simulation lab 2	11/11
10	Tues, 11/4	ARP, ICMP, DHCP, Routing	Ch. 4.1, 4.2
	Thurs, 11/6	Routing, Distance Vector	Ch. 4.2
11	Tues, 11/11	Routing, Link States	Ch. 4.2	HW_3 Simulation lab3 Simulation lab4	11/25 11/20 12/9
	Thurs,11/13	Mobile IP	Ch. 4.2
12	Tues, 11/18	Subnetting ,Classless Routing	Ch. 4.3
	Thurs, 11/20	Interdomain Routing	Ch. 4.3
13	Tues, 11/25	UDP, TCP	Ch. 5.1
	Thurs, 11/27	No class (Thanksgiving recess)
14	Tues, 12/2	TCP	Ch. 5.2
	Thurs, 12/4	DNS	Ch. 9.1	HW3_Solution Exercise 1
15	Tues, 12/9	World Wide Web (HTTP)	Ch. 9.2	EX1_Solution
	Thurs, 12/11	Review session
16	Tues, 12/16	Final Exam (3:30–6:30 pm)

Acknowledgements:

The lecture notes have incorporated course materials developed by Larry Peterson (Princeton University) and Andrew Tanenbaum (Vrije University).