Computer Networks II Spring 2012

Schedule and readings

"Book" readings refer to 5:th edition of Computer Networking - A Top-down Approach by Kurose/Ross (course litterature for Computer networks I). "Schiller" refers to an excerpt from a book by Jochen Schiller, found in the file area on the student portal page for this course.

Some of the articles may only be available from within the University network.

The table below is the tentative schedule. The official schedule can be located at the schedule server.

Date Time Subject Readings
Jan 16 15 Course intro (**), history Course info, The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols (**), RFC1958
Jan 18 15 Realtime applications  Book: Ch 7
Jan 19 13 Service discovery, Naming Autoconfiguration for IP Networking (**) 
Jan 23 15 Network programming (**) Book: Ch 2.7-2.8, Beej's Guide to Network Programming: Ch 2-7
Jan 24 15 Data transport and TCP behavior Book: Ch 3.5-3.7, TCP Congestion Control (**)
Jan 25 10 IPv6, Routing Book: Ch 4.4.4, IPv6 (Wikipedia), Introduction to packet classification (**) 
Jan 26 8-12 Lab 1 Deadline is on 5th of February at 23.59 
Jan 30 10 Canceled!  
Jan 30 13 Deadline to sign up for seminar on Feb 2:nd  
Feb 2 Discussion seminar All readings above since course start
Feb 3 10 Physical layer (**) Schiller: p31-61 (**)
Feb 5 Lab 1 deadline  
Feb 7 15 WiFi, Cellular (**) Schiller: p61-64, 70-72, 100-107, 205-226, 231-233 (**)
Feb 8 10 Mobile TCP/IP (**)
Feb 10 13 Mobile applications (**)  
Feb 14 8 Internet of things, WSN (**)  
Feb 14 13 Deadline to sign up for seminar on Feb 17:th  
Feb 15 10 Guest lecture: Energy aspects  
Feb 16 10 Ad-Hoc Networks  
Feb 17 Discussion seminar All readings above since previous seminar
Feb 20 15 Security  
Feb 22 8 Guest lecture: DTN, Opportunistic networks  
Feb 23 15 Resilience and modeling  
Feb 24 8-15 Lab 2 Deadline is on 29th of February at 23.59 
Feb 27 10 Guest lecture: Social impact on networking  
Feb 27 13 Deadline to signup for seminar on Mar 1-2  
Feb 28 10 Guest lecture: Data-centric networking  
Feb 28 13 Canceled!  
Feb 29 Lab 2 deadline  
Mar 1 Deadline for video presentations  
Mar 1-2 Discussion seminar All readings above since previous seminar
Mar 9 noon Deadline for feedback to video presentations
Mar 14 9,14 Exam All readings above, Lecture contents, Labs and Video presentations

(**) Slides or text available in Student Portal