CSE 124: Networked Services Syllabus

Textbooks

Practical TCP/IP Sockets in C, 2nd ed., by Donahoo and Calvert. This book provides a practical, hands-on guide for network programming in C and C++, and is an invaluable reference. An online companion site for the book is available at the book's website.
Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, 5th ed., by Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie. The 4th edition of the book is likely to work fine, and so if you have that you should not need to buy the 5th edition.
The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines, 2nd ed., by Barroso, Clidaras, and Hölzle. This is a very interesting book that describes how the data centers at Google are designed, built, and operated. A physical copy of this book is available at the bookstore, however you can also read this book for for free online.

Schedule

#	Date	Topics	Notes	Readings
Part 0: Introduction
1	Tue 01/05	Course introduction, cloud computing, Internet naming and addressing [pdf]
Part 1: Client/Server socket programming
2	Thu 01/07	Sockets programming [pdf]	Homework 1 due (5pm)	Donahoo and Calvert, Ch. 1 and 2
3	Tue 01/12	Sockets programming, DNS and naming [pdf]		Donahoo and Calvert, Ch. 1, 2, and 3
4	Thu 01/14	Encoding data, framing, and parsing [pdf]	Homework 2 due (5pm); Materials for today's class at this link	Donahoo and Calvert, Ch 5
5	Tue 01/19	HTTP overview [pdf]
6	Thu 01/21	Signals and timeouts [pdf]	Materials for today's class at this link	Donahoo and Calvert, Ch 6.1--6.3
7	Tue 01/26	Multitasking and multiplexing [pdf]	Project 1 due; Materials for today's class at this link	Donahoo and Calvert, Ch 6.4 and 6.5
8	Thu 01/28	Under the hood [pdf]	Materials for today's class at this link	Donahoo and Calvert, Ch 7
9	Tue 02/02	Performance measurement and presentation [pdf]	Materials for today's class at this link; HW 3 due (5pm)
10	Thu 02/04	Project 2 office hours instead of class	Location CSE 3104; Homework 4 due (by 5pm)
Part 2: Data Center Networks
11	Tue 02/09	Data centers and cloud computing [pdf]		Barroso, Clidaras, and Hölzle, Chapters 1 and 2
12	Thu 02/11	Data center performance [pdf]	Materials for today's class at this link	Jeffrey Dean and Luiz André Barroso. 2013. The tail at scale. Commun. ACM 56, 2 (February 2013), 74-80. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2408776.2408794
13	Tue 02/16	Energy and power efficiency [pdf]	Projects 2 and 3 due (5pm)	Barroso, Clidaras, and Hölzle, Chapter 5
Part 3: Enterprise services
14	Thu 02/18	E-mail, SMTP, POP, and IMAP [pdf]
15	Tue 02/23	Remote procedure calls [pdf]	Project 4 due (5pm)
16	Thu 02/25	Remote procedure calls [pdf]	Materials for today's class at this link	(optional) Eric Brewer, "Lessons from Giant-Scale Internet Services", IEEE Internet Computing. Vol. 5, No. 4. pp. 46-55. July/August 2001
17	Tue 03/01	Overlay networks, VPNs, and IP security [pdf]
18	Thu 03/03	Peer-to-peer networks [pdf]
Part 4: Finale
	Tue 03/08	Instructor is ill
19	Thu 03/10	Course review [pdf]
	Fri 03/11	No class (Friday)	Projects 5 and 6 due (5pm)
	Thu 03/17	Final Exam	Scheduled for 8:00am-10:59a, location TBD