Reading in Kurose
The readings from the course textbook are organised in
Chapter order, and refer to the 5th, International,
edition of the book.
Overview of protocols and the Internet.
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An overview of application data transfer and case studies of HTTP and FTP.
Sections 2.1 - 2.3
Additional reading:
Section 2.4 on SMTP
Introduction to transport services and protocols
Flow control and windowing
TCP and UDP protocol details
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Network route discovery and packet forwarding theory and practice.
Intra and Inter-AS routing, distance vector and link state routing algorithms.
Important Internet protocols for routing activity, IP, RIP, OSPF, BGP.
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Link layer protocols and theory. Time and frequency division, turn taking protocols, Ethernet and related concepts, MAC addresses, lookup of MAC addresses ARP. Concepts of checksums for error detection, framing, bit and byte stuffing. Role of repeaters, hubs, switches, routers and the algorithms they employ to maintain frame forwarding capability in a LAN.
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Cabling standards, data encodings and concepts of clock drift and baseline wander.
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