The University of Texas at Austin
Harrick Vin home pageComputer Sciences

Teaching  »  CS386M: Communication Networks
 
Schedule
 
The following is an approximate schedule for the semester. All dates (except for the midterm) are subject to change as the semester progresses.
 
CS372: Introduction to Operating Systems

Wk

Date

Topic

Readings

Lecture Notes

Project and Homework

0

Aug 26

Course Overview and Goals; Network Review

 

PDF

 

1

Aug 31

No Class

 

 

 

Sept 2

No Class

 

 

 

Part 1: Networking Review (Reference: Kurose and Ross textbook)

2

Sept 7

Overview

KR Ch. 1

PDF

 

Sept 9

Error Control and Reliable Transmission

KR Ch 5 (Sec 5.2) and 3 (Sec 3.4)

PDF

 

3

Sept 14

No Class

 

 

 

Sept 16

Transport Layer: Flow and Congestion Control

KR Ch 3

PDF

 

4

Sept 21

Network Layer: Routing and Addressing

KR Ch 4

PDF

 

Sept 23

Network Layer: Routing and Addressing (Cont’d.)

 

 

 

5

Sept 28

Link Layer: Addressing, LANs, ARP

KR Ch 5

PDF

 

Sept 30

Application Layer: DNS, HTTP; Synthesis: Basic network operation

KR Ch 2

PDF

Project Ideas and Timeline

Part 2: Network Design Principles (Reference: Network Design Principles Papers)

6

Oct 5

Signaling: Separation of Data and Control

Reading List [1-5]

PDF

 

Oct 7

State management: Hard-state vs. Soft-state

Reading List [6-8]

PDF

Homework 1 Assigned (Due: Thursday, October 21, 2004)

7

Oct 12

Randomization

Reading List [9-13]

PDF

 

Oct 14

Indirection

Reading List [14-17]

PDF

 

8

Oct 19

No Class

 

 

 

Oct 21

Indirection (Cont’d.)

 

 

 

9

Oct 26

Resource Multiplexing

Reading List [18-21]

PDF

 

Oct 28

Multiplexing (Cont’d.)

 

 

Homework 2 Assigned (Due: Tuesday, November 9, 2004)

10

Nov 2

Virtualization and Design for Scale

Reading List [22-27]

PDF, PDF

 

Nov 4

MIDTERM

 

 

 

11

Nov 9

Internet Design: End-to-end Principle

Reading List [30-31, 35-39]

PDF

 

Nov 11

Internet Design: End-to-end Principle

Reading List [32-34]

PDF

 

12

Nov 16

Internet Design: End-to-end Principle

 

 

 

Nov 18

Will IP take over the world?

 

 

Homework 3 Assigned (Due: November 30, 2004)

13

Nov 23

 

 

 

 

Nov 25

 

 

 

 

14

Nov 30

 

 

 

 

Dec 2

 

 

 

 

 

To top of page To top of page