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Makeup labs on Wednesdays only 4-6 pm
 
Date
Lectures
Assignments Due! Related Resources
Aug.19
Aug.21
  • Chapters 1 & 2 (OSI/ISO;TCP/IP layers; applications and services) - Watch the videos
Aug 26
  • Chapter 3 (client-Server Model; Socket API / Message and Stream Paradigm; P2P; Multi-thread Servers) / Start Client-Server / Chapter 4
 
  • This is an interesting MOVIE on how IP packets are made and routed - HERE - 13 min.
  • Read about Net Neutrality

Aug 28+

LAB
  • Intrduction to Linux: Linux Lab: Linux distros, Linux Review, File System, Script programing, HW & Logical Addressing, ifconfig, - See Youtube Videos on Linux
Sep. 2
No Class!   No Class!
 Sep.4
  • Continue with Chapter 4 (Server-Client model/Web/FTP/TFTP serve)
 Sep.9
  • Quiz 1(lectures/labs/articles)
  • Show your Linux Script: Do part 3 of Linux Exercise
 
Sep.11+

LAB

 Sep.16
TCPdump!  

Sep.18

LAB

Sep.23+

 

Sep.25

LAB

  • Lab- DNS is due
  • Quiz 3 (chapters 4 / DNS Lab + IP addressing)
 
Sep. 30
Article 2 is due

Oct. 2+

LAB

Continue with the basic lab on your own! Up to FTP Section

 

 
Oct.7

IP4 & IPv6 (IP Header, Fragmentation / Forwarding / Encapsulation / IPv6 / short discussion of TCP & UDP )- Chapter 22 & 24

Quiz 4 (IP addressing and re;ated protocols)
 

Oct. 9+

LAB GHTC

   
Oct. 14 Introduction to TCP (26) - (Sliding window, congestions, stop-and-go, sequenc and ACK numbers, Zero Size Window, Slow network) - VIDEO Start working on TCP-SEGMENT  
Oct. 16
  • Make sure your Python is working!
  • FTP Server Lab - Part III Basic Lab
 
Oct. 21 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 TCP-SEGMENT
Oct. 23 Setting up a Web Server in Ubuntu    
Oct.28
Midterm:  
Oct. 30 Continue with Local Area Networks( Chapters 13, 14,15,17) Web Server lab is due!  
Nov. 4

 

   
Nov. 6
DHCP Lab  
Nov.11

Veterans' Day

  No Class!
Nov.13
WAN Technologies (Routing types and routing protocols, Packet forwarding, next-hop forwarding, examples of different routing schemes, Link-State Routing, Distance Vector Routing, Shortest Path Algorithms, Graph representation - Chapter 18) - VIDEO Submit Real-World Senario Using Wireshark - Assignment See how Dijkstra Algorithm works
Nov.18
Chapter 27 - Multicasting, Multicast group, IGP, EGP, BGP, IGMP, RIP, OSPF, RPB, RPM, PIM, RPF, Tunneling, Tree Concept, Forming Tree, Core-Based Discovery See Wireshark examples  
Nov.20 DHCP Server Setup Lab    
Nov. 20
Access technologies (Access technologies, Local Loop technology, DSL, ISDN, SONET, DSn) Read tutorial on ADSL.Chapter 12 Quiz 5 (IP addressing and lectures after the midterm+ lab)--read the packet encapsulation - Review packet encapsulation  
Nov.25

 

   
Dec 9
Final Exam/ Chpaters 5,6,12,13,14,18,27 - All the videos/ and labs    
  STOP HERE STOP HERE  
       
Nov.4
Cisco Routers and Switches / Practice Switch Commands    
Nov.6 Start Spannig-tree lab Quiz 5  
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)    
Nov.18
Chapter 27 - Multicasting, Multicast group, IGP, EGP, BGP, IGMP, RIP, OSPF, RPB, RPM, RPF, Tunneling, Tree Concept, Forming Tree, Core-Based Discovery Article 4 is due  
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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