Data Networks, ICS 451

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Instructor: Edo Biagioni

Office is in POST 311B, telephone (808)956-3891, e-mail esb@hawaii.edu. Office hours are: Teaching Assistant is Yihua (Robin) Xie, e-mail yihua@hawaii.edu. Her office hours are Monday 1:30-2:30 and Friday 11-12, in POST 327, or by appointment (send her email to schedule an appointment).

Goals

In this course, students will:

Organization

Lectures are Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3-4:15 in Kuykendall 301.

This course has homework assignments, projects, quizzes, and exams. The homeworks are not graded, though you may turn them in if you wish to have them checked or if you have questions.

All students are required to join the course mailing list -- to join, send email to esb@hawaii.edu. Be sure to include both your name and your email address (which must end in @hawaii.edu), and to state that you wish to join (or be removed from) the ICS 451 mailing list. Please also include the password information required for the quizzes. Only registered students will be allowed to join. See here if you need help accessing your email on your hawaii.edu account.

I send email to the mailing list with announcements and such. The mailing list may also be used for class-wide discussion on topics relevant to the course. You should feel free to initiate such discussion.

Grades are assigned based on your performance on:

A cumulative score of 90% will guarantee an A in the course, 80% a B, 60% a C, and 50% a D. Depending on the performance of the class as a whole, I may or may not grade more generously (grade on a curve).

Any homeworks will not affect the final grade, so turning them in is optional. I do, however, recommend that you do them. Participation (electronic and in class) is likewise highly recommended but does not affect your grade.

The first project must be done individually. The second and third project may be done individually or in teams of your choosing, up to a maximum of three students. For the first two projects you must use the C language, the third project may be in any language supported by uhunix2.

The textbook is "Computer Networks and Internets", by Douglas E. Comer (Prentice-Hall), third edition (2001). The textbook is available from the UH bookstore. The second edition (1999) is also acceptable, but chapter numbers must be obtained by reference to the Fall 2001 class schedule. Due to popular demand, I have also selected an optional reference book for sockets programming. This optional book should also be available from the UH bookstore, though if everyone decides to buy them, they will run out. It is most likely that these books are also stocked or can be ordered by your favorite bookstore -- shop early to be sure to get the textbook(s).

Cheating Policy: any cheating will result in a grade of 0 for the assignment or exam the first time it is detected, and a grade of F for the course for any subsequent instance. There is to be no collaboration whatsoever on homeworks or exams (you may study together, but anything you turn in, must be entirely your own intellectual contribution). This applies to the entire group in the case of group projects.


Tentative Schedule

This schedule is subject to change.

Lectures notes are in HTML. I usually post notes no later than the day before the lecture.

This schedule is loosely based on the same course taught in the Fall of 2001. If you wish to look ahead, please refer to that course. One lecture in the Fall 2001 course correspond to two lectures in this schedule.

  1. Jan 15. Introduction and Overview, Chapters 3 and 26.
    Materials Covered:
  2. Jan 17. Sockets API programming. Chapters 27, 28, and 32.
    Materials Covered: Homework 1 assigned, due January 24th.
  3. Jan 22. Packet Switching and the Internet. Byte orderings. Chapters 1 and 2.
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  4. Jan 24. Media and Serial Lines, HTML and HTTP. Chapters 4 and 5.
    Materials Covered: Project 1 assigned, due February 24th.
  5. Jan 29. Carriers, Modulation, and Multiplexing. Chapter 6.
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  6. Jan 31. Framing and Error Detection. Chapter 7.
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  7. Feb 5. LANs. Chapter 8.
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  8. Feb 7. Ethernet. Chapters 9 and 10.
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  9. Feb 12. LAN Extensions. Chapter 11.
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  10. Feb 14. Digital Telephony and Related Technologies. Chapter 12.
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  11. Feb 19. WAN Technologies. Chapter 13.1 - 13.9.
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  12. Feb 21. Exam 1, covering all the material up to now.
  13. Feb 26.
    Materials Covered: Routing. Chapter 13.10-13.18. Review 1 assigned, due Mar 5.
    Project 2 assigned, due March 24th.
  14. Feb 28. ATM. Chapter 14.
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  15. Mar 5. Network Characteristics and Layering. Chapters 15 and 16.
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  16. Mar 7. Internetworking. Chapter 17.
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  17. Mar 12. IP addresses. Chapter 18.
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  18. Mar 14. ARP and IP header. Chapters 19 and 20.
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  19. Mar 19. Fragmentation and Reassembly, Chapter 21.
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  20. Mar 21. IPv6, ICMP, Internet Routing. Chapters 22, 23, and 25.
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  21. Apr 2. TCP. Chapter 24.
    Materials Covered: Project 3 assigned, due April 28th. Review 2 assigned, due April 7th.
  22. Apr 4. TCP Connection and Congestion Management, UDP. Chapter 24.
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  23. Apr 9. DNS. Chapter 29. Also review Chapters 25-28.
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  24. Apr 11. Exam 2, covering all the material since Exam 1. Note that April 11th office hours are cancelled due to instructor travel.
  25. Apr 16. Network Security. Chapter 37.
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  26. Apr 18. Security (continued), Initialization and Configuration. Chapter 38.
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  27. Apr 23. Security (continued), Initialization and Configuration. Chapter 38. Electronic Mail. Chapter 30.
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  28. Apr 25. FTP, Network File Systems, RPC, SNMP. Chapters 31 and 35.
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  29. Apr 30. SNMP, Dynamic Web Page Technologies. Chapters 32, 33, and 34.
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  30. May 2. Review, Part 1.
    Materials Covered (any excess will be covered May 7):
  31. May 7 Review.
    Materials Covered
The final exam for this course is Thursday May 16, 2:15-4:15pm. The final covers the entire course.