CMSC 417: Spring 2020
Office Hours:
(This schedule may change due to unforeseen events and students' evolving interests)
Date
Topics of discussions
Study materials
04-Feb-2020
Lecture 2: Foundations of networks and overview (continued) (Textbook chapter 1)
06-Feb-2020
Lecture 3: Distance vector routing (Textbook chapter 3.3.1 and 3.3.2)
10-Feb-2020
Assignment_0 is released. Due: February 24th, 11:59:59 pm
11-Feb-2020
Lecture 4: Distance vector routing (cont.) and Link state routing (Textbook chapter 3.3.2 and 3.3.3)
18-Feb-2020
Lecture 6: IPv4 addresses, Subnets, CIDR, DHCP (Textbook chapter 3.2)
20-Feb-2020
Lecture 7: Private address spaces, NAT protocol (Textbook chapter 3.2)
25-Feb-2020
Lecture 8: ARP, ICMP, Virtual networks and tunnels (Textbook chapter 3.2)
27-Feb-2020
In-term review and discussions (Textbook chapters 1, 3.2, and 3.3)
03-Mar-2020
Third-term exam# 1 Here is the syllabus. This is an in-class exam. Please bring your university ID card.
10-Mar-2020
Lecture 10: Stop-and-wait protocol (Textbook chapter 5)
12-Mar-2020
Lecture 11: Sliding window protocol (Textbook chapter 5)
15-Mar-2020 to 29-Mar-2020
Extended spring break
31-Mar-2020
Lecture 12: TCP flow control (Textbook chapter 5)
Slides: 12_TCP_flowcontrol_2.ppt March 31st, 6:00pm: Lectures are available in the shared folder.
02-Apr-2020
Lecture 13: TCP congestion control (Textbook chapter 6)
Slides: 13_TCP_CongestionControl.ppt April 2nd, 8:46pm: Lectures are available in the shared folder.
07-Apr-2020
Lecture 14: Evolution of TCP congestion control and router-assisted congestion control (Textbook chapter 6)
Slides: 14_TCP_variants_and_routerCC.ppt April 7th, 9:03pm: Lectures are available in the shared folder.
09-Apr-2020
Lecture 15: Link layer: Ethernet and MAC protocols (Textbook chapter 2)
Slides: 15_LinkLayer_ethernet.ppt April 10th, 12:54am: Lectures are available in the shared folder.
14-Apr-2020
Lecture 16: Hubs/Switches and Wireless LAN (WiFi)-I (Textbook chapter 2)
Slides: 16_wireless_LAN_1.ppt April 15th, 12:55am: Lectures are available in the shared folder.
16-Apr-2020
Lecture 17: Wireless LAN (WiFi)-II, Bluetooth, and other wireless networks (Textbook chapter 2)
Slides: 17_wireless_LAN_2.ppt April 17th, 02:26am: Lectures are available in the shared folder.
21-Apr-2020
Lecture 18: Cellular networks and mobility in Wireless networks (Textbook chapter 2)
Slides: 18_cellular_mobility.ppt April 22th, 03:30am: Lectures are available in the shared folder.
28-Mar-2020
Third-term exam# 2
28-Apr-2020
Lecture 19: Advanced networking: BGP protocol - I (Textbook chapter 4)
Slides: 19_BGP_part1.pptx Lectures are available in the shared folder.
30-Apr-2020
Lecture 20: BGP protocol - II (Textbook chapter 4)
Slides: 20_BGP_part2.pptx Lectures are available in the shared folder.
05-May-2020
Lecture 21: Application layer: Web, Email, DNS (Textbook chapter 9)
Slides: 21_ApplicationLayer_part_1_and_2.pptx Part-1 of the lecture-21 is available in the shared folder.
07-May-2020
Lecture 21 - part 2: Application layer: Web, Email, DNS - II (Textbook chapter 9)
Part-2 of the lecture-21 is available in the shared folder.
12-May-2020
Lecture 22: Network security: Ciphers, RSA, Authentication, SSL (Textbook chapter 8)
Slides: 22_NetworkSecurity.pptx Lectures are available in the shared folder.
18-May-2020 (MONDAY)
Final exam
Location: CSI 1115 Time: 10:30pm-12:30pm