CSE 222A: Computer Communication Networks Syllabus

Textbooks

The required textbook for this course is:

Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, fifth edition, by Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie.
It is available from the UCSD Bookstore, or Amazon.

In addition, we suggest several texts as background:

Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, 3rd edition, by James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross. Covers similar material to Peterson and Davie.
TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols by W. Richard Stevens.
Unix Network Programming: Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI (Volume 1) by W. Richard Stevens.
Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment by W. Richard Stevens, Addison-Wesley, 1993.

Grading

Your final grade for the course will be based on the following weights:

40% Project
35% Quiz
15% Paper reviews
10% Class Participation

The quiz will be open book at the end of the quarter.

The major portion of this course will consist of a term research project, carried out in teams of two or three, culminated by a talk and paper. I will provide a number of ideas that can serve as a starting point for many projects. Students can also work with me to define a separate project in an area related to the course. The project will make up the bulk of the course. Students will spend the first part of the course defining the project and researching related work. The actual work on the project will be completed in the last six weeks of the course.

Schedule

Also available as an ical file that you can subscribe to.

Date	Topics	Notes	Readings
Part 1: Review: Packet Switched Networks
Tue 01/08	Class overview & introduction [pdf]
Thu 01/10	Layering & End-to-End [pdf]		P&D Chapters 1-2, SRC84
Tue 01/15	Packet forwarding [pdf]		P&D Chapter 3, CK74
Thu 01/17	Routing [pdf]		P&D Chapter 4, Pax97
Part 2: Alternative Infrastructures
Tue 01/22	Active and Overlay Networks [pdf]	Project ideas due.	We98
Thu 01/24	Software Defined Networking [pdf]	Project groups due.	KC+10
Part 3: Data Center Networks
Tue 01/29	Scale-out Topologies [pdf]		ALV08
Thu 01/31	L2 in the Data Center [pdf]		MP+09
Tue 02/05	Hybrid networks [pdf]	Project proposals due.	FP+10
Thu 02/07	Resource provisioning		PK+12
Part 4: Wide-area Networks
Tue 02/12	Alternative routing mechanisms [pdf]		GG+09
Thu 02/14	Alternative naming mechanisms [pdf]		KC+07
Tue 02/19	Traffic Engineering [pdf]		ZZ+10
Part 5: Congestion Control
Thu 02/21	Congestion Control [pdf]	Project checkpoint	KHR02
Tue 02/26	Datacenter TCP [pdf]		AG+10
Thu 02/28	Multi-path TCP [pdf]		WR+11
Part 6: Wireless
Tue 03/05	WiFi [pdf]		CA+07
Thu 03/07	Mesh networking [pdf]	Project checkpoint	BM05
Tue 03/12	Energy efficiency		LVS13
Evaluation
Thu 03/14	Quiz
Tue 03/19	Project presentations