• Course Title: CS 447 Computer Networking and Communication
• Location: EB 1150
• Time: T & R 09:30 -- 10.45 a.m.
• Course Web Site: http://www.cs.siue.edu/~tgamage/S15/CS447/
• Assignment Dropbox: CS447@Moodle
• Course Grader: Dustin Thomas Email: DUTHOMA (AT) SIUE (DOT) EDU

Instructor Contact Information

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• Instructor: Thoshitha Gamage, Ph.D.
• Office: EB 2050
• Phone: (618) 650-2407
• Email: TGAMAGE (AT) SIUE (DOT) EDU
• Web Site: http://www.cs.siue.edu/~tgamage
• Office Hours: M/W 02:30 -- 04:00 p.m. & T/TH 11:00 -- 12:30 p.m.

  Updated 02/06 - Monday 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
  Tuesday 11:00 - 12:30 p.m & 01:00 - 02:00 p.m. or by appointment

Course Material

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• Syllabus: Download |
• Tentative Schedule:

  Week	Dates	Topic	Slides	Scribes
  01	Jan. 13	Course Introduction and Administrivia
  	Jan. 15	Internet in a nutshell, service model, core vs. edge
  02	Jan. 20	Network Performance Measurement
  	Jan. 22
  03	Jan. 27	Application Layer: Sockets, Ports, P2P, Client-Server
  	Jan. 29	Socket Programming, Transport Layer Services
  04	Feb. 03	Protocol Interaction: SMTP, HTTP, (FTP)
  	Feb. 05	DNS
  05	Feb. 10	P2P
  	Feb. 12	Caching, Transport Layer: mux/demux
  06	Feb. 17	Reliable Data Transfer Principles - i
  	Feb. 19	Reliable Data Transfer Principles - ii
  07	Feb. 24	Go-Back-N, Selective Repeat
  	Feb. 26	TCP Rdt, Demux Revised
  08	Mar. 03	TCP Flow Control and Congestion Control
  	Mar. 05	mid term exam
  09	Mar. 10	Spring Break
  	Mar. 12
  10	Mar. 17	Network Layer Routing vs. Forwarding
  	Mar. 19	Router Internals, Queuing Delay, HOL Blocking
  11	Mar. 24	Forwarding Tables, IP Fragments, Subnets, CIDR, DHCP, Address Aggregation, NAT, ICMP
  	Mar. 26
  12	Mar. 31	Internet Routing: Link-State, Distance-Vector
  	Apr. 02	RIP, OSPF, BGP
  13	Apr. 07	Network Security Primer: C I A
  	Apr. 09	Symmetric-Key, Asymmetric-Key Cryptography
  14	Apr. 14	Secure Key Exchange, Hashing
  	Apr. 16	Instructor on Travel; No Class. Work on HW03
  15	Apr. 21	Data-Link Layer: Error Detection and Correction
  	Apr. 23	Multiple Access Problem
  16	Apr. 28	Slotted ALOHA, ALOHA, CSMA/CD
  	Apr. 30
  17	May. 05	Finals Exam @08:00 a.m. - 09:40 a.m. in EB 1150

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Course Assignments

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Week	Assigned on	Assignment
01	Jan. 13	Read PR6e Sec. 1.2 and 1.3 PR00Due: 01/29/2015 @09:29:59 a.m.  [Dropbox]
	Jan. 15	Read PR6e Sec. 1.4 and 1.5
02	Jan. 19	Scribe Template Sample Output
	Jan. 20	Read PR6e Sec. 2.1 and 2.2 DARPA Protocol Suite | Packet Switching | Packet Radio Network
03	Jan. 22	Read PR6e Sec. 2.2 and 2.4
	Jan. 26	Cheat Sheets (for geeks): PacketLife |
	Jan. 27	Read PR6e Sec. 2.7 HW01Due: 02/12/2015 @09:29:59 a.m. ( WS00 | )  [Dropbox]  [Key]
04	Jan. 29	The Paper | End-to-End Packet Dynamics | Packet Audio Delay
05	Feb. 12	PR01Due: 02/26/2015 @09:29:59 a.m.  [Dropbox]
08	Mar. 05	ME01  [Key]
10	Mar. 19	HW02Due: 03/30/2015 @09:29:59 a.m. ( WS01 | )  [Dropbox]   [Key]
12	Mar. 31	PR02 (repeat PR01) Due: 04/14/2015 @09:29:59 a.m.  [Dropbox]
14	Apr. 14	HW03Due: 02/21/2015 @09:29:59 a.m. ( WS02 | ) ( trace | )  [Dropbox]   [Key]
15	Apr. 15	PR03Due: 05/05/2015 @11:59:59 a.m.  [Dropbox]