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, Amazon, or online from the UC San Diego campus or VPN.

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:

50% Project
40% Quizzes
10% Class Participation

There will be several unannounced, closed book pop quizzes throughout the term. The final 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
Mon 01/08	Class overview & introduction [pdf]
Wed 01/10	Layering & End-to-End [pdf]		P&D Chapters 1-2, SRC84
Mon 01/15	MLK Day (no class)
Wed 01/17	Packet forwarding [pdf]		P&D Chapter 3, CK74
Mon 01/22	Routing [pdf]		P&D Chapter 4, Pax97
Part 2: Alternative Infrastructures
Wed 01/24	Active and Overlay Networks [pdf]	Project ideas due.	We99
Mon 01/29	Software Defined Networking [pdf]	Project groups due.	KC+10
Part 3: Data Center Networks
Wed 01/31	Datacenter Networks [pdf]		ALV08
Mon 02/05	L2 in the Data Center [pdf]	Project proposals due.	MP+09
Wed 02/07	Hybrid networks [pdf]		FP+10
Mon 02/12	Resource provisioning [pdf]		PK+12
Part 4: Wide-area Networks
Wed 02/14	Alternative routing mechanisms [pdf]		GG+09
Mon 02/19	Presidents' Day (no class)
Wed 02/21	Traffic Engineering [pdf]	Project checkpoint	ZZ+10
Part 5: Congestion Control
Mon 02/26	Congestion Control [pdf]		KHR02
Wed 02/28	Datacenter TCP [pdf]		AG+10
Mon 03/05	Multi-path TCP [pdf]		WR+11
Part 6: Wireless
Wed 03/07	WiFi [pdf]	Project checkpoint	CA+07
Mon 03/12	Mesh networking [pdf]		BM05
Evaluation
Wed 03/14	Quiz
Wed 03/21	Project presentations