| Soren Sorensen | S.Sorensen at cs.ucl.ac.uk | 8.10 MPEB |
| Brad Karp | |
7.05 MPEB |
Weeks 20-24 (8th January, 2007 - 6th February, 2007):
Weeks 26-30 (19th February, 2007 - 21st March, 2007):
Reading assignments appear in the calendar below on the day when their content will be covered in lecture. For this reason, students must complete the assigned readings before lecture.
Readings are drawn mostly from the two required texts: Saltzer and Kaashoek ("S & K") and Peterson and Davie ("P & D"). There are also a few research papers that are assigned reading; you will find links to electronic copies of these papers from the calendar. As with the readings from the required texts, students must print and read these research papers as preparation for the lecture for which they are assigned.
| Monday 4-6pm | Tuesday 4-5pm |
8th Jan Protocol layering (OSI 7-layer model and IEEE/IETF model) Slides: Protocol Reference Models Reading: S & K, Chapter 7, Section B |
9th Jan LANs and WANs; link-layer protocol requirements Slides: Link-layer protocols Reading: S & K Chapter 7, Section C |
15th Jan MAC layer, Aloha, CSMA, Ethernet (CSMA/CD), Spanning-tree bridging Slides: LANs and MANs; Ethernet (slides 10–24) Reading: S & K, Chapter 7, Appendix A-1 and A-2 |
16th Jan IP over Ethernet: ARP, IPv4 addressing, address allocation and NATs Slides IP addressing (slides 1–14, 17–27 and 30–37) Reading: S & K, Chapter 7, Appendix A-3 and A-4 |
22nd Jan Naming: the Domain Name System Reading: S & K, Chapter 4, Appendix A |
23rd Jan Symmetric and public-key (RSA) cryptography, IPsec, TLS, OpenPGP Slides: Ciphers (p.1–21), Protocols (p.1–20) Reading: S & K, Chapter 11, Sections C and D |
29th Jan
Internet worms, intrusion detection systems (IDSes) |
30th Jan Voice over IP, RTP, SIP Slides: VoIP; Chat and instant messaging |
5th Feb WWW, XML, RSS, social software (blogs+wikis) Slides: WWW; E-mail; file transfer |
6th Feb Midterm Exam 50 minutes, given in lecture |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday |
19th Feb Physical and Link Layers Lecture Notes: ppt |
20th Feb End-to-End Arguments Pre-Reading: End-to-End Arguments in System Design Lecture Notes: ppt |
21st Feb Multi-hop networks Pre-Reading: S & K, Chapter 7, Section A Lecture Notes: ppt |
26th Feb Reliable Transport Introduction Pre-Reading: S & K, Chapter 7, Section E Lecture Notes: ppt |
27th Feb Reliable Transport (TCP I) Reading: P & D, 5.1 and 5.2, only through and including 5.2.6 Lecture Notes: ppt |
28th Feb Lecture cancelled! |
5th Mar Congestion Control (TCP II) Pre-Reading: S & K, Chapter 7, Section F Pre-Reading: Congestion Avoidance and Control Lecture Notes: (continuation of 27th Feb slides) |
6th Mar Congestion Control, continued (TCP III) Reading: P & D 6.3 Lecture Notes: (continuation of 27th Feb slides) |
7th Mar
Intra-domain Routing: Introduction Pre-Reading: P & D 4.2, only through and including 4.2.1 Pre-Reading: P & D 4.3, only through and including 4.3.2 Lecture Notes: ppt |
12th Mar
Intra-Domain Routing: Distance Vector Intra-Domain Routing: Distance Vector Pathologies Pre-Reading: P & D 4.2.2 Lecture Notes: (continuation of 7th Mar slides) |
13th Mar Intra-Domain Routing: Link State Pre-Reading: P & D 4.2.3 - 4.2.4 Lecture Notes: ppt |
14th Mar Inter-Domain Routing: BGP Pre-Reading: S & K, Chapter 7, Section D Pre-Reading: P & D, 4.3.3 Pre-Reading: Balakrishnan, Lecture 4 Notes Lecture Notes: ppt |
19th Mar Wireless Networks: 802.11 MAC Reading: P & D 2.8, only through and including 2.8.2 Lecture Notes: ppt Coursework 2: |
20th Mar No lecture! Hacking Day: |
21st Mar No lecture! Hacking Day: |