COM3515
Internetworking: Principles, Protocols and Applications

Wednesdays, 6-9

Instructor: Vassilis Tsaoussidis
E-mail: vassilis@ccs.neu.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday 11-1pm or by appointment

Schedule and Lecture Notes

****FIRST LECTURE WILL BE APRIL 2nd - CLASS of 26th will take place APRIL 11 ****

Lecture 1 (April 2 ): Overview in 4 sections

Lecture 2: (April 9) part 1: Underlying Network Technologies; part 2: Reliability

Lecture 3: (Fri: April 11) Introduction to TCP and congestion control: Protocol functionality, headers, state transition diagram etc. + HOMEWORK I

Lecture 4: (Wed: April 16) congestion control, Fairness and TCP extensions + Homework 2

Lecture 5: (FRI: April 18 (instead of 23) Fairness and Friendliness
+ Project
Lecture 6: April 30: Exam ((READ: all lecture notes + 5.2 (except for 5.2.8) + 6.3 + 6.4.2)

Lecture 7: (May 14) Internetworking: Hubs/Switches/Bridges/Routers, Switching and warding, Addressing

Lecture 8: (May 21) Routing (slides in previous lecture)

Lecture 9: (May 28) QoS, DNS and application protocols

GRADING: HOMEWORKS 200, PROJECT 400, EXAM 400 Useful Links