Course Information

Class Meeting Times/Location. Room: Cullinane Hall CN29, Tuesday 6:00-9:00 PM.

Instructor: Guevara Noubir, email: noubir@ccs.neu.edu, phone: (617) 373 5205, office: 219 Cullinane Hall.

Office Hours: Thu 2:00-5:00PM.

Teaching Assistant: Ning Ke, email: nke@ccs.neu.edu, phone (617) 373 4607, office: 53 Cullinane Hall

Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday 3:00-5:00pm.

Required Text: Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, by Larry L. Peterson & Bruce S. Davie, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 2000.

Course Home Page. http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/noubir/Courses/COM3515/F01.

Prerequisites: It is highly recommended to have taken COM3510: Computer Networks.

Course Description: Introduces the fundamental concepts of internetworking. Presents the different harmonizing functions needed for the interconnection of many heterogeneous computer networks. Internet protocols, such as TCP, IP, ARP, BGP and IGMP, are used as examples to demonstrate how internetworking is realized. Applications such as electronic mail and the WWW are studied. Topics include: internetwork architectures, protocol implementation, addressing and address mapping, intra- and inter-domain routing, multicasting, mobility, autoconfiguration, resource allocation, transport protocols, naming, client-server model, network programming interfaces (e.g., sockets), and applications. Includes programming assignments.

Course Schedule:

Lecture 1: (9/25) Introduction to internetworking: principles, concepts, architecture, services
Lecture 2: (10/2) Direct Link
Lecture 3: (10/9) Packet Switching
Lecture 4: (10/16) IP
Lecture 5: (10/23) TCP
Lecture 6: (10/30) Congestion Control/Congestion Avoidance
Midterm Exam (11/6)
Lecture 7: (11/13) Multicast routing over the internet
Lecture 8: (11/20) Reliable multicast
Lecture 9: (11/27) Internet security
Final Exam

Grading: The course grade will be based on 4 assignments (total 30%), a midterm (25%), and a final exam (45%).

Assignments: A1, A2, A3, A4,

Assignments are due at the beginning of class. As a general rule the penalty on a homework turned in upto a week late will be 20% and no homework will be accepted beyond 1 week past its due date. Students may discuss the problem sets with one another, but solutions should be written up separately. If a key idea is obtained from another person (other than the TA or the instructor) or from another book or paper (other than the course textbook), then the source of that idea should be cited. Solutions should be presented in a clear and concise manner.

Midtem: The midtem will take place on Tuesday October 30^th, in class. Please mark your calendars and make sure that you will be able to attend the midterm.

Final Exam: The final exam will take place on Tuesday during finals week.