Syllabus

Date	Topic/Reading Assignment
Sep 22	Introduction
Sep 27	Lecture Cancelled
Sep 29	Protocol Layering (read P&D Ch. 1 [except 1.4])
Oct 4	Signaling and clock recovery (read P&D Ch 2-2.2) Note: HW 1 assigned
Oct 6	Framing and Error detection (read P&D Ch 2.3-2.4)
Oct 11	Reliable Transmission (read P&D 2.5) [Geoff Voelker guest lecture]
Oct 13	Media Access Control (read P&D 2.6-2.7) [Geoff Voelker guest lecture]
Oct 18	Bridging and Switching (read P&D 3-3.1)
Oct 20	Internetworking and IP (read P&D 3.2)
Oct 25	Distance vector routing (read P&D 3.3)
Oct 27	Link state routing
Nov 1	Interdomain routing (read P&D 4.1)
Nov 3	Midterm (Sample midterm w/solutions) (Solutions)
Nov 8	Multicast routing (read P&D 4.2)
Nov 10	Router design (read P&D 3.4)
Nov 15
Nov 17	class cancelled (out sick)
Nov 22	Transport protocols (read P&D 6.3)
Nov 24	Class cancelled (Thanksgiving)
Nov 29	Congestion control (read P&D 6.3-6.4)
Dec 1	QoS (read P&D 6.1-6.2, 6.5.1)
Dec 9	Final (Sample final w/solutions)