Introduction to Networking

Data Communications and Networking - Fall 2013

Current SSU Calendar	Resources	Linux	Possible Projects	Group Discussion
	Lecture Series at Sonoma - Signup sheet	Network Tools	IEEE Library at Sonoma
Makeup labs on Wednesdays only 4-6 pm


Date	Lectures	Assignments Due!	Related Resources
Aug.19	Welcome /Syllabus/ Introduction	Signup in the Group Discussion / or send me an email requesting access	Read Introduction (basic networking technologies;
Aug.21	Chapters 1 & 2 (OSI/ISO;TCP/IP layers;Switching technologies; applications and services)
Aug 26	Chapters 1 & 2 (OSI/ISO;TCP/IP layers;Switching technologies; applications and services)	Read Chapters 1&2 of Comer Read about protocol layers Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Mode
Aug 28+ LAB	Intrduction to Linux: Linux Lab: Linux distos, Linux Review, File System, Script programing, HW & Logical Addressing, ifconfig,	Practice these basic Linux Commands and make sure you understand the This is a Shell Script example - follow the example. Read article answer these questions	Check Linux Refer to Quick introduction to More Linux Command Exercises Downloading packages (rpm and yum) LINUX Watch YouTube videos on Ubuntu
Sep. 2
Sep.4	Chapter 3 (client-Server Model; Socket API / Message and Stream Paradigm; P2P; Multi-thread Servers) / Start Client-Server / Chapter 4	Write an Linux Script: Do part 3 of Linux Exercise. - Due Monday	This is an interesting MOVIE on how IP packets are made and routed - HERE - 13 min. Read about Net Neutrality
Sep.9	Continue with Chapter 4 (Server-Client model/Web/FTP/TFTP serve)	Quiz (lectures/labs/articles) Show your Linux Script: Do part 3 of Linux Exercise	Read about Client-Server Model Read more about TFTP - Stallings Textbook - Search for Trivial FTP
Sep.11+ LAB	Introduction to Wiresharkl / slides/ Learn about 3-way Handshake /HTTP transfer protocol / Filters in Wireshark	Read about Wireshark & install it on your machine- read about Wireshark	Online Lookup - very good tool! Video: Window command line Networking tools
Sep.16	Continue with Chapter 4 (email & DNS) More on DNS Root Nameservers/ DNS-Summary Figure	Wireshark_HTTP_Lab is due
Sep.18 LAB	IP Addressing (Network Layer, IP addressing) - Chapter 20, 21		Understanding IP Addressing LabVEIW Resources for the IP addressing project
Sep.23+	Understand the Laboratory Setup Complete the Basic Lab (understanding single-segment network)	Lab- DNS is due	3500XL Commands 2600 XM Commands Cisco Internet Operating System (IOS)
Sep.25 LAB	IP Supporting Protocols - Chapter 23 & 25 (ARP, Reverse-ARP, ICMP, DHCP, NAT) Watch the Videos about ARP	Quiz (chapters 4 / DNS Lab + IP addressing)	As for routing this is an easy tutorial on Netstat. Video: Basics of ARP protocol (CISCO) Youtube Animation: How ARP works (animation) Youtube: Proxy ARP & Reverse ARP (sample training)
Sep. 30	IP4 & IPv6 (IP Header, Fragmentation / Forwarding / Encapsulation / IPv6 / short discussion of TCP & UDP )- Chapter 22 & 24
Oct. 2+ LAB	Complete the Basic Lab - Install FTP server in the lab		PHP Assignment?
Oct.7			See how Dijkstra Algorithm works
Oct. 9	Local Area Networks( Chapters 13, 14,15,17) LAN Characteristics and topologies, Medium Access Protocols, MAC, LLC, ALOHA, CSMA, Ethernet, Ethernet Frame and Standards and Protocols, MAC Address, Ethernet Evolution and Wiring, Fast Ethernet, Network Devices, Switches, Hubs, Bridges, Interconnecting LANs, Spanning Tree - VIDEO	Submit FTP Server Lab - Part III Basic Lab	Learn about Spanning Tree and VLAN A spannig Tree Demo Online Book: LAN Switching Learning about Spanning Tree Pure Aloha Simulator
Oct.14	Local Area Networks continue	Quiz (Local Area Network Lectures + Basic Lab)	Encapsulation Cheat sheet!
Oct.16	Introduction to TCP (26) - (Sliding window, congestions, stop-and-go, sequenc and ACK numbers, Zero Size Window, Slow network) - VIDEO
Oct.21	No Class	No Class	No Class
Oct.23	Midterm:	Midterm: 1-4, 13,14,15,17, 20-26 + Labs
Oct.28	WAN Technologies (Routing types, Packet forwarding, next-hop forwarding, examples of different routing schemes, Link-State Routing, Distance Vector Routing, Shortest Path Algorithms, Graph representation - Chapter 18) - VIDEO	Start TCP-SEGMENT
Oct.30	Access technologies (Access technologies, Local Loop technology, DSL, ISDN, SONET, DSn) Read tutorial on ADSL.Chapter 12
Nov.4	Cisco Routers and Switches / Practice Switch Commands	Submit TCP-SEGMENT	Create email and http servers - group How can you download ckermit /
Nov.6	Start Spannig-tree lab
Nov.11
Nov.13	Chapter 13a (Circuit/Packet Switching, Clos Switch, Delay in CS, Public Switched Network, Time Division Switching, Switch Fabric, Crosspoint Switch, VC, Datagram, X.25)		Read about Message Switching Read about Circuit Switching
Nov.18	Chapter 27 - Multicasting, Multicast group, IGP, EGP, BGP, IGMP, RIP, OSPF, RPB, RPM, RPF, Tunneling, Tree Concept, Forming Tree, Core-Based Discovery
Nov.20	Presentation	Complete Real-World Senario Using Wireshark - Assignment / Presentation on network tools
Nov.25
Nov.27	Thanksgiving holiday for Students		No Class!
Dec. 2	Chapter 5 & 6(Signal characteristics, Fourier Series, BW, Data rate, Line Coding, Nyquist, Sampling)
Dec. 4	Review
Dec 9	Final Exam/ Chpaters 5,6,12,13,14,18,27 - All the videos/ and labs

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Linux Resources
Download Windows Virtual PC Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide - by Machtelt Garrels (an online Book) Do the Practice Lab Introduction to Linux Direction for downloading and installing VMware	This document tells you where to get Fedora Instructions to install Fedora 4 under VPC 2004 These are some good commands to practice with... Linux Directory and Permission >>> Linux Resources <<< Vi Editor / Vi Commands / Specific to Ubuntu ****Download Ubuntu Youtube Lecture on what is Linux Youtube: Basic Tasks in Linux on Ubantu Installing Ubuntu 12.04.3 Read about Ubuntu LTS Distro
Net Neutrality
One min. introduction Two-min. description Google and Net Neutrality Article by Mueller	Who owns the Internet? BBC Video
Ethereal / Wireshark
Introduction to Ethereal / slides Download these examples: bgp / ping / lotsofweb / dns_sime_query / http_google / http.cap /download_slow / There are more downloadable examples: Capture Examples for Wireshark Introduction to VisualRoute and Wireshark	Ethereal User's Guide V2 for Ethereal 0.10.5 Chapter 3 & 4 Wireshark Official Site / watch the videos Ethereal Chapter 4 - Turorial Wireshark Examples: ARP / ICMP / DHCP
Projects Examples
Advanced Research Projects	Linux-based Internet projects (Linus Toys) Client Server Projects Linux-based Network Projects Labview-based Projects: TCP/IP / TCP implementation / TCP / Client-Server / Book / Using VisualRouter design a network and simulate its capacities.
Resources
Review Process / Review Form Software evaluation - project format Good resources on books and articles regarding how to write your reports Text-To-Speech (TTS) -- A very interesting Demo. Try it out Several good simulators IEEE Computer Society Digital Library. http://library.ccsu.edu/find/articles/ The collection includes	Interesting Lectures and Articles: Next Generation Networks (Lucent)
Laboratory Setup
Understand the Laboratory Setup	Documents 3500XL Commands 2600 XM Commands Cisco Internet Operating System (IOS)
Network Tools
NMAP related projects Network Tools Advenet Simulation Tool Kit IP Routing Simulation (an online simulator) Simple but useful CGI network related Applet scripts. You can easily build on these. Very good site for learning about different network commands. Type the command you are looking for	TUTORIALS Simple netowrk applets to understand basic networking concepts. Look through them. Reading about IPV6 protocols. Some video tutorials about TCP/IP protocols
Applets / Movies
Click here to see how a HUB works Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Model This is a very interesting MOVIE on how IP packets are made and routed - Try it HERE - From

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Advanced Topics in Networking: Delay Models in Data Networking (Chapter 3 Data Networks)
Extra: Lab: DNS-Test Using nslookup Lab: Using Wireshark to Understand DNS Lab: HTTP Review Slides to understand Wireshark_HTTP Wireshark Results for PING Assignment / This is opnet assignment ABout Ethernet: http://telecom.tbi.net/frmlan.html