Syllabus

Date	Topic/Reading Assignment
Sep 28	Introduction
Sep 30	Protocol Layering (P&D Ch. 1 [except 1.4])
Oct 5	Signaling and clock recovery (P&D Ch 2-2.2)
Oct 7	Framing and Errors (P&D Ch 2.3 and 2.4) HW #1 and Proj #1 assigned (see Assignments page)
Oct 12	Lecture Cancelled
Oct 14	Lecture Cancalled (but homework due)
Oct 19	Media Access (P&D 2.6, 2.7 and 2.8) HW #1 solutions available
Oct 21	Bridging and Switching (P&D 3.1 and 3.2)
Oct 26	Internetworking and IP (P&D 4.1)
Oct 28	Midterm. Midterm solutions here
Nov 2	Distance Vector Routing (P&D 4.2-4.2.2)
Nov 4	Link State and Inter-domain routing(P&D 4.2.3-4.2.4, 4.3)
Nov 9	Multicast routing (P&D 4.4)
Nov 11	No class. Veterans Day
Nov 16	Transport protocols (P&D 5-5.2)
Nov 18	Transport continued
Nov 23	Congestion Control (P&D 6.3-6.4)
Nov 25	Class canclled (sick)
Nov 30	Router design and QoS(P&D 3.4, 6.2, 6.5)
Dec 2	Network security -- Denial-of-service
Dec 7	Review session (EBU3B 4140) at 4pm, Sample final and HW #2 solutions available