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COMN: COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS (Spring 2012) - SCHEDULE

Time and Venue for Lectures - Tue, 1400-1550hrs in AT (Appleton Tower, George Square) Lecture Theatre (LT) 1.
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#	Date	Topic	Readings
1	Jan 17	Course Overview
		Introduction to Computer Networks, the Internet, Protocols, Network Edge Systems, Network Core (circuit vs. packet switching)	[KR5e] Sections 1.1-3 (required); [DHGS07] (suggested); [FMH02] (suggested)
2	Jan 24	Introduction: Network Performance Metrics and Protocol Layering	[KR5e] Chapter 1 (required); [PD4e] Section 1.5 (required)
		Application Layer: Principles of Network Applications	[KR5e] Section 2.1 (required);
3	Jan 31	Application Layer: Socket Programming and Web/HTTP	[KR5e] Sections 2.1-4 and 2.7 (required); [N09] (suggested)
4	Feb 7	Application Layer: DNS and Peer-to-Peer Applications	[KR5e] Chapter 2 (required); [RD10] (suggested)
		Transport Layer: Services and Multiplexing/Demultiplexing	[KR5e] Sections 3.1-2 (required)
5	Feb 14	Transport Layer: UDP and Principles of Reliable Data Transfer	[KR5e] Sections 3.3-4 (required); Suggested readings: [BBP88]; [Tan5e] Sections 3.3-5 for reliable data transfer protocols.
	Feb 21	NO LECTURE (Innovative Learning Week)
6	Feb 28	Transport Layer: TCP and Congestion Control	[KR5e] Sections 3.5-8 (required); Suggested readings: [CK74] for original TCP/IP paper; Two army problem - [Tan5e] Chapter 6 and [TGP-Wiki].
	Mar 6	Guest Lecture by Dr George Ross
7	Mar 13	Network Layer Functions, Service Models and the Internet Protocol (IP)	[KR5e] Sections 4.1-4 (required).
8	Mar 20	Network Layer: IPv6, Routing Algorithms and Routing in the Internet	[KR5e] Sections 4.5-6 (required); [LC11] (suggested).
9	Mar 27	Link Layer: Error Detection and Correction, Multiple Access Protocols, Link Layer Addressing and Switches	[KR5e] Sections 5.1-6 (required); [SK91] (suggested).

Books and References:

• [KR5e] J. F. Kurose and K. W. Ross, "Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach" (5th edition), Pearson Education, 2009.
• [PD5e] L. L. Peterson and B. S. Davie, "Computer Networks: A Systems Approach" (5th edition), Morgan Kaufmann, 2012.
• [Tan5e] A. S. Tanenbaum and D. J. Wetherall, "Computer Networks" (5th edition), Pearson Education, 2011.
• [DHGS07] M. Dischinger et al., "Characterizing Residential Broadband Networks", IMC 2007.
• [FMH02] P. Molinero-Fernadez, N. McKeown and H. Zhang, "Is IP Going to Take Over the World (of Communications)?", ACM HotNets 2002.
• [N09] G. Neville-Neil, "Whither Sockets?," Communications of the ACM, Jun 2009.
• [RD10] R. Rodrigues and P. Druschel, "Peer-to-Peer Systems," Communications of the ACM, Oct 2010.
• [BBP88] R. Braden, D. Borman and C. Partridge, "Computing the Internet Checksum", RFC 1071.
• [CK74] Cerf, V.; Kahn, R., " A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol.22, no.5, pp. 637-648, May 1974.
• [TGP-Wiki] Two Generals' Problem
• [LC11] T. A. Limoncelli and V. G. Cerf, "Successful Strategies for IPv6 Rollouts. Really.," ACM Queue, Mar 2011.
• [SK91] T. Socolofsky and C. Kale, "A TCP/IP Tutorial", RFC 1180.