Announcements

Clarification regarding spanning tree protocol: The ports which are blocked in spanning tree topology are ignored for both sending as well as receiving of data packets so that the tree retains its acyclic character.

Course Information

Instructor: Varsha Apte, CSE, IITB (varsha[AT]cse.iitb.ac.in, IIT extn: 7731)

Lecture Schedule: Tuesday, 8:30am, Thursday 11:35am, Friday, 10:35am,

Venue: F. C. Kohli Auditorium, KreSIT.

Office: KreSIT A-408. Hours: Thursday, 12:30-1:30pm.

Teaching Assistants: Abhishek Sankaran, Nitesh Gupta, Manuj Gupta, Vaibhav Selot.

Tentative Evaluation Scheme:

• 50% End Sem, 25% Midsem, Quizes (including surprise): 25%.
• Quiz 1, 2, 3: 4% each, total 12%
• Post-midsem: surprise quizes, number and weightage is "surprise". Total weightage 13%.

• Midsem: 20th-24th February, 2005
• Endsem: 17th -28th April, 2005

Course Description

This is an introductory course in Computer Networking, thus mainly, the basics will be covered. Our approach is "top-down" in our learning of the various layers of Computer Networks. We will closely follow the book "Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach Featuring the Internet", by Kurose and Ross. We will also often refer to Peterson and Davie's "Computer Networking, A Systems Approach" for some additional insights. We will start with the Application Layer, go down to Transport Layer then Network Layer (Routing), then Link Layer and LANs.

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