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Instructor:
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Contact Info:
Office hours: Monday 1.20 – 2.20, Wednesday 4.00 – 5.00. New computer science building, Room 337.
Instructor email: arunab@cs.stonybrook.edu
TA: Javad Nejati (jnejati@cs.stonybrook.edu)
TA Office hours: Tuesdays 2.15 to 3.45, Old computer science building, Room 2203.
Announcement:
- Further announcements and discussions will be on Piazza.
- All lecture notes are posted on Piazza. Name of the lecture notes are posted on the page, corresponding to each lecture.
- Tentative schedule is up.
- The Web page is up.
Description:
The goal of this course is to cover the introductory topics in networking. We will go through the standard protocols in each layer of the OSI stack and discuss design patterns commonly used in networking protocols. We will cover some of the new topics in networking including data centers and SDNs.
Textbooks:
There is no required textbook. If you would like to follow a text book, I recommend
Computer Networks, A Top Down Approach by Kurose and Ross [KR]
Another great book is:
Computer Networks, by Andrew Tanenbaum and David Wetherall
Prerequisites:
Grading:
There are several components in this class: Assignments, Projects, Exams, and Summaries. The grading criteria is as follows:
Midterm and Final exam: 40%
Project: 30%
Paper summaries: 10%
Assignments: 25%
Project: The project constitutes a third of your grade. Around 3 weeks into the semester, we will discuss possible project ideas. You should choose a project and submit a project proposal. Mid-way through the course, you will present a report on project progress. At the end, you will present your projects to the instructor and submit a project report.
I encourage students to do the project in groups of 2. If you want to do a project without any team members, come talk to me. For project sizes that are bigger than 2, I expect considerably more work.
Paper summaries: There are approximately 6 papers assigned for reading. For each paper, you are expected to provide a summary. More details on how to write a paper summary are up on Piazza.
For grading, I will choose the top 4 out of the 6 summaries.
Assignments: There will be 3 assignments in all. The assignments should be submitted via Blackboard. All assignments are due at 9.00pm on the day they are due. You get a 24 hours grace period spanning all 3 assignments, project pitch, and project progress (but your final project needs to be submitted by the deadline or your forfeit the points).
Tentative Schedule:
| Date | Topic | Readings | Notes |
| 1/25/2016 | Introduction | No reading. | Syllabus and overview. |
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Application Layer |
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| 1/27/2016 | DNS | KR 2.5 | Lecture class [lect_dns.pdf]. |
| 2/01/2016 | CDNs, HTTP/HTTP2 | KR 2.2, SPDY | Lecture class [lect_cdn.pdf]. |
| 2/03/2016 | HTTP/HTTP2, Web | Web_IMC11 [Summary paper] |
Lecture class [lect_http_http2.pdf] + Paper reading. Summary 1 is due in class. Homework #1 out, due in 2 weeks. |
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Transport Layer |
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| 2/08/2016 | TCP basics | KR 3.2, 3.4 | [Class Cancelled Due to Snow] |
| 2/10/2016 | UDP/TCP basics | KR 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 | Lecture class [lect_tcp1.pdf] |
| 2/15/2016 | TCP flow/congestion control | KR 3.3 | Lecture class [lect_tcp2.pdf] |
| 2/17/2016 | TCP AIMD/Project discussions | Lecture + Project discussions [lect_tcp2.pdf] Homework #1 due, #2 is out. |
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Network Layer & others |
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| 2/22/2016 | Routing protocols | Special class by Samir Das. | |
| 2/24/2016 | No class!! | No class. | Instructor/TA out of town. TA and instructor hold additional office hours for help with project. |
| 2/29/2016 | TCP flavors + SPDY | SPDY [Summary Paper] |
Lecture class + Summary [lect_tcp3.pdf]. Summary 2 due in class. |
| 3/02/2016 | IP and Networking | KR 4.1.1, 4.3.2, 4.4 | Lecture class [lect_ip.pdf]. Homework #2 due. Project pitches are due 3/04. |
| 3/07/2016 | Intra-domain routing | KR 4.5.1, 4.5.2 | Lecture class [lect_bgp.pdf]. |
| 3/09/2016 | Midterm (Open book/Open notes) | Midterm in class. | |
| 3/14/2016 | Spring Break | No Class | |
| 3/16/2016 | Spring Break | No Class | |
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BGP/Data centers |
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| 3/21/2016 | Inter domain routing | KR 4.6.3 | Lecture class [lect_bgp.pdf] |
| 3/23/2016 | BGP + Data centers | KR 5.6 | Lecture class. [lect_datacenter.pdf] Homework #3 out. |
| 3/28/2016 | DCTCP/D2TCP | DCTCP(summary paper) | Lecture + Paper [lect_datacenter.pdf] Summary 3 is due in class |
| 3/30/2016 | Switching | KR 5.4 (except 5.4.4) | Lecture class [lect_switches.pdf] |
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Special topics |
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| 4/04/2016 | SDNs | Scott Shenker’s Talk | Lecture class [lect_sdn.pdf] |
| 4/06/2016 | Middleboxes + Other SDN applications | Middlebox paper(Summary paper) | Lecture + Paper. [lect_datacenter_networking.pdf] Summary 4 due in class |
| 4/11/2016 | Network modeling | No reading | Special class by Anshul Gandhi |
| 4/13/2016 | Cellular arch/MPTCP | MPTCP Paper (Summary paper) |
Lecture class. [lect_cellular.pdf] Summary 5 due in class Homework #3 due. |
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Link layer/Physical layer |
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| 4/18/2016 | Link Layer | KR 5.3.1, 5.3.2 | Lecture class [lect_data_link.pdf] Proposal progress due 4/20/2016 |
| 4/20/2016 | WiFi Link layer | KR 6.3.1, 6.3.2, 6.3.3
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Lecture + Paper [lect_data_link.pdf] |
| 4/25/2016 | White Space Spectrum | Wiffler (Summary paper) or ViFi (Summary paper) |
Lecture class. Summary 6 due in class |
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Projects |
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| 4/27/2016 | Project presentation to Instructor | TBA | |
| 05/02/2016 | Project presentation to Instructor | TBA | |
| 05/04/2016 | In-class exam | Midterm | Midterm Project report due 05/15/2016 |
Others:
Deadlines: Please see tentative schedule below for all deadlines. I will announce them in class as well as post on Piazza.
Discussion policy: All discussions will take place on Piazza. Please be respectful of your fellow classmates and your instructor when posting questions.
Important: Questions posted on Piazza can take up to 24 hours for a response from the instructor or the TA. Keep this in mind, since if you ask a question very close to an assignment deadline, they may go unanswered.
Office hours policy: Office hours will take place on Mondays 1.20 to 2.20 and Wednesdays 4.00 to 5.00. Some days, the office hours may be rescheduled due to prior instructor commitment. New office hours information will be posted on Piazza.
