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Lectures
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Aug.23
Aug.25
  • Chapters 1 & 2 (OSI/ISO;TCP/IP layers; applications and services) - Watch the videos

Aug 30+

LAB
  • Intrduction to Linux: Linux Lab: Linux distros, Linux Review, File System, Script programing, HW & Logical Addressing, ifconfig
  • Watch Youtube Videos on Linux
Sep 1
 
  • This is an interesting MOVIE on how IP packets are made and routed - HERE - 13 min.
  • Read about Net Neutrality
 Sep.6
  • Continue with Chapter 4 (Server-Client model/Web/FTP/TFTP serve)
 Sep.8
  • Article 1 is due
  • Quiz 1
 
Sep.13+

LAB

 Sep.15
 

Sep.20

LAB

Sep.22+
  • Quiz 2

 

Sep.27

LAB

 
Sep. 29

Article 2 is due

 

Oct. 4+

LAB

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

Quiz 3 (chapters 4 / DNS Lab)

 
Oct.6
   

Oct. 11+ LAB

Quiz 4 (IP Addressing) /  
Oct.13
   
Oct. 20 - GHTC Midterm: / Start thinking about your project)  
Oct. 25 Submit Basic Lab Parts 1-2  
Oct. 27 Start working on TCP-SEGMENT  
Nov. 1
  • Make sure your Python is working!
  • FTP Server Lab - Part III Basic Lab
  • Submit Basic Lab Parts 3
  • Submit RPi Labs 1 & 2
 
Nov. 3 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 Quiz 5 on IP4/6 & TCP UDP headers + Basic Lab (addressing and commands) + RPi
Nov. 8  
Nov. 10

Continue with Local Area Networks( Chapters 13, 14,15,17)

   
Nov. 15
Nov.17
Continue with Local Area Networks( Chapters 13, 14,15,17)
  • Quiz 6 LAN / TCP Lab / FTP Lab
Nov.22 Continue with Local Area Networks( Chapters 13, 14,15,17)
  • Submit Web server lab
 
Nov.24 THANKSGIVING! THANKSGIVING!  
Nov.29 Real-World Senario Using Wireshark - Assignment
Dec. 1
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
  • Quiz 7
  • Submit RPi Labs 3-4
 
Dec. 6 Submit DHCP Lab  
Dec. 8 Access technologies (Access technologies, Local Loop technology, DSL, ISDN, SONET, DSn) Read tutorial on ADSL.Chapter 12    
Dec 13
Final Exam/ Chpaters 5,6,12,13,14,18,27 - All the videos/ and labs    
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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 13
Final Exam/ Chpaters 5,6,12,13,14,18,27 - All the videos/ and labs    

 

 

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  • 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
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