This page is organized by the weeks of the quarter in which lectures were given. The weeks are in inverse order, on the assumption you will most often be looking for the most recent week.
This class will be taught by Peter Reiher. We are using two books. First, The Mathematical Theory of Communications, by Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver. This is not a textbook, but contains the foundational theoretical results about computer communications. Second, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, by James Kurose and Keith Ross. This is a more traditional textbook. I am not presenting material in the same order that Kurose and Ross chose, so we will be jumping around quite a bit in this textbook.
I will be lecturing on these subjects during the class.
The slides used in the lectures are available via links below for the particular week in which the lecture was given. Slides are available in both Powerpoint and PDF form. For slides that used animation, the PDF versions may be hard to deal with.
The TA for the course is Seungbae Kim. His email address is ksb2043@gmail.com. ksb2043@gmail.com. He will be responsible for all issues related to the class projects. Questions on these should be directed to them.
Kurose and Ross, Section 1.6, pages 55-60.
Kurose and Ross, Chapter 8, Introduction through section 8.3.3, pages 671-699.
Kurose and Ross, section 2.2, pages 98-116. (This is on HTTP.)
Kurose and Ross, section 3.5, pages 230-258. (This is on TCP.)
Kurose and Ross, section 4.4, pages 331-349. (This is on IP. You should have already read pages 338-349 in week 6.)
Kurose and Ross, section 5.7, pages 495-500. (This is an example somewhat like the one in the lecture.)
Kurose and Ross, Chapter 3, sections 3.4.2-3.4.4, pages 215-230.
Kurose and Ross, Chapter 3, sections 3.6, pages 259-282.
Kurose and Ross, Chapter 4, sections 4.5-4.7, pages 363-412.
Kurose and Ross, Chapter 3, section 3.4-3.4.1, pages 204-215.
Kurose and Ross, Chapter 8, section 8.1, pages 671-674.
Note: I updated lecture 15's slides between the original posting and giving the lecture in class. The link now points to the updated slides presented in class.
No readings assigned for this lecture.
NOTE: No class will be held on Thursday, February 18, since Dr. Reiher will be out of town. The lecture has been taped, with links to the taped version below, so you will be able to view this lecture at your convenience. The slides from the lecture are below, as usual.
No readings assigned for this lecture.
Kurose and Ross, Chapter 2, introduction through section 2.1.2, pages 83-90.
Kurose and Ross, section 2.7, pages 156-168.
Kurose and Ross, section 3.2, pages 191-198.
Kurose and Ross, section 4.4.2, pages 338-352.
Only one lecture is assigned for Week 5, since the Thursday class period will be used for the midterm exam. This exam will cover all slides, class discussion, and readings through Lecture 9. It will be a closed book, closed note test in a short answer format. The test will emphasize familiarity with important concepts and basic understanding of them. You are expected to have a good understanding of all material in the class, including Shannon's results. You will not be asked to perform any proofs, and you should be able to answer all questions on the test without doing any calculations, assuming you understand all of the material we have talked about.
Kurose and Ross, section 2.5, pages 130-144.
Kurose and Ross, section 2.6.2, pages 151-156.
Kurose and Ross, section 5.4.1, pages 462-469.
Kurose and Ross, sections 4.1-4.3, pages 305-331.
Kurose and Ross, section 1.3.3- 1.5, pages 32-55.
Here are the slides for the channel rate calculation example that I went over in class today.
Kurose and Ross, Section 1.2 - 1.3.2 (pages 9-31).
Kurose and Ross, Section 5.3 (pages 445 - 460).
Kurose and Ross, Section 6.3.2 (pages 531-537).
Kurose and Ross, Section 1.7.1 (pages 60-62).
Shannon and Weaver, in the Shannon section, the Introduction, and Chapter I on Discrete Noiseless Systems. (Pages 30-64 in the printed paperback edition.)
Error detection and correction: Kurose & Ross, section 5.2, pages 438-445.
Shannon and Weaver, in the Shannon section, Chapter II on The Discrete Channel With Noise. (Pages 65-80 in the printed paperback edition.)
No readings assigned for lecture 1.
Shannon and Weaver, page 3-28.
I got through several of the slides planned for lecture 2 in Tuesday's class, so I am posting an extended version of lecture 2 that I will give on Thursday. It contains more slides than the original one, with the slides already presented being in hidden mode.
Lecture 2 extended version, PDF version.