Lectures: Slot 6 (Wed, Fri. 11:05 am - 12:30 pm). F.C.Kohli Auditorium, KReSIT. Instructor: Mythili Vutukuru (mythili @ cse.iitb.ac.in) Instructor Office Hours: By appointment (please send email to fix up a time). TAs: Priyanka Naik (ppnaik@cse), N S Sadagoppan (nss@cse), Stanly Thomas (stanly@cse), Hiren Patel (hirenp@cse), Vidya Sagar Kushwaha (vskushwaha@cse) TA Office Hours: Wednesdays 5-6 pm, Circular Hall (4th floor, KReSIT) |
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This is a PG elective course, primarily for first year PG students who have an interest in the field of computer networking, and have taken an undergraduate networking course. We will cover introductory and advanced topics in the area of computer networks. The course will consist of lectures, programming assignments, reading assignments, a mid-semester exam, and an end-semester exam.
TopicsAuditing: I expect some effort and commitment from students auditing the course. Therefore I require that you appear for all the quizzes and exams in the course. You are not required to turn in the programming assignments or the term paper. Of course, you are welcome to do more, but you must meet this minimum requirement.
Textbooks: You may find the following textbooks useful to better understand the concepts taught in class, and for practice exercises. The course roughly follows the content structure of the textbook by Kurose and Ross. Additional references in the form of research papers or articles are provided against each lecture in the schedule below, if you want to learn more about a particular topic.
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1 | Jul 22 (Wed) | Introduction. Course logistics. Layering abstraction. Network architecture and protocols. Packet swtiching. | lec01.txt | Term paper information. | |
2 | Jul 24 (Fri) | Performance of networks: delay and throughput. | lec02.txt | ||
3 | Jul 29 (Wed) | Application layer: HTTP and other protocols. | lec03.txt | ||
4 | Jul 31 (Fri) | Socket programming. | lec04.txt | Programming Assignment 1 (PA1) |
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5 | Aug 5 (Wed) | DNS, HTTP transport: recent developments. | lec05.txt |
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6 | Aug 7 (Fri) | P2P, wrap-up application layer. | lec06.txt | Quiz 1 |
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7 | Aug 12 (Wed) | Transport layer: introduction. | lec07.txt |
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8 | Aug 14 (Fri) | TCP congestion control (continued). | lec08.txt | PA1 due PA1 written test |
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9 | Aug 19 (Wed) | Analysis of TCP. | lec09.txt | Programming Assignment 2 (PA2) |
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10 | Aug 21 (Fri) | TCP implementation details, multipath TCP. | lec10.txt |
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11 | Aug 26 (Wed) | QoS and fairness, traffic shaping. | lec11.txt | Quiz 2 | |
12 | Aug 28 (Fri) | Router scheduling algorithms. | lec12.txt |
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13 | Sep 2 (Wed) | Network layer: introduction. | lec13.txt | ||
Sep 4 (Fri) | Midsem review. | PA2 due PA2 written test |
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Sep 16 (Wed) | Midsem paper discussion + network/IP layer introduction (continued from lecture 13). | ||||
14 | Sep 18 (Fri) | Linux IP networking, advanced topics in IP. | lec14.txt | Programming Assignment 3 (PA3) | |
15 | Sep 23 (Wed) | IP and MPLS Routers: Guest lecture by Prof. Ashwin Gumaste. |
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16 | Sep 30 (Wed) | Router architectures, MPLS, routing protocols. | lec16.txt |
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17 | Oct 7 (Wed) | BGP: introduction. | lec17.txt |
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18 | Oct 9 (Fri) | BGP: advanced topics. | lec18.txt |
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19 | Oct 14 (Wed) | Link layer: introduction | lec19.txt | Quiz 3 | |
20 | Oct 16 (Fri) | Practical topics: network and link layers. | lec20.txt | PA3 due PA3 written test |
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21 | Oct 21 (Wed) | Datacenter networking (part 1). | lec21.txt |
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22 | Oct 23 (Fri) | Datacenter networking (part 2): Guest lecture by Prof. Ashwin Gumaste. | See here for the papers discussed during this lecture. | ||
23 | Oct 28 (Wed) | Software defined networking. | lec23.txt |
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24 | Oct 30 (Wed) | Networking and Virtualization. | lec24.txt | ||
25 | Nov 4 (Web) | More recent topics in networking and systems. | lec25.txt | See here for the papers discussed during this lecture. | |
Nov 6 (Fri) | Endsem review. | Term paper due |