UM EECS489: Winter 2016 Syllabus and Lecture Slides

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Tentative syllabus: February | March | April

Labs are due at 6 pm on the Friday of the week they are listed below.

Wed 01/06	Introduction to course, history of the Internet Required reading: Kurose & Ross (K&R) Ch. 1 (except Section 1.4) Recommended reading: Stevens et al. (UNP 3rd. ed.) Chs. 1, 4, Sections 2.9, 2.10, 2.11 (skip SCTP) Optional reading: Clark, "The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols," Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM '88, 18(4):106-114, Aug. 1988.
Wed 01/06 LAB	Lab 0: Building Socket Programs (not graded)
Fri 01/08 Assigned PA1	Network protocol and sockets programming (TCP client) Required reading: K&R Section 2.7 Recommended reading: UNP Chs. 3, 5, 6 (up to and including 6.8), 7 (except 7.6-7.10), 11, Appendix C Optional reading: Saltzer, Reed, and Clark, "End-to-end Arguments in System Design," ACM Trans. on Computer Systems (TOCS), 2(4):277-288, Nov. 1984.

Mon 01/11	Sockets programming (TCP server), I/O mode and multiplexing
Wed 01/13	PA1 Walk-through
Wed 01/13 LAB	Lab 1: Netimg: Remote Image Display
Fri 01/15	Naming and DNS K&R Section 2.5 UNP Chs. 3, 5, 6 (up to and including 6.8), 7 (except 7.6-7.10), 11, Appendix C

Mon 01/18	NO LECTURE MLK DAY
Wed 01/20 Assigned HW1	Network Layer: Packets, IPv4, Addressing, Forwarding, CIDR, ICMP and traceroute K&R Sections 4.1, 4.2, 4.4 UNP Appendices A, B, Chs. 27, 28
Wed 01/20 LAB	Lab 2: A Peer Node
Fri 01/22	Network Layer: IP fragmentation, IPv6, encapsulation, tunneling, NAT Optional reading: Shami, K., et al., "Impacts of Peer Characteristics on P2PTV Networks Scalability," Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, 2009, pp. 2736-2740.

Mon 01/25	Content Delivery: P2P (Gnutella, Skype, BitTorrent), multicast K&R Sections 2.6.1, 7.3.4, 4.7
Wed 01/27	Content Delivery: HTTP, SPDY, web caching, Bloom Filter, CDN K&R Sections 2.2.1-2.2.6, 7.2.4, 7.2.5 Optional reading: Bloom, B.H., "Space/time trade-offs in hash coding with allowable errors," Communications of the ACM, 13(7):422-426, July 1970. Google Chromium Projects, SPDY
Wed 01/27 LAB	NO LAB: Work on PA1 -- GSI&IA will be in Discussion room to help
Fri 01/29 PA1 Due Assigned PA2	Content-based routing and consistent hashing or distributed hash table (DHT) K&R Section 2.6.2 Optional readings: Stoica et al., "Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-Peer Lookup Protocol for Internet Applications," IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking (TON), 11(1):17-23, Feb. 2003. DeCandia et al., "Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-Value Store," Proc. of ACM SIGOPS '07, 41(6):205-220, Dec. 2007.

Mon 02/01	PA2 Walk-through
Wed 02/03	Security overview: key exchange protocols, message digest and digital signature K&R Sections 8.1-8.6 Optional reading: Neuman and Ts'o, "Kerberos: An Authentication Service for Computer Networks," IEEE Communications Magazine, Sep. 94.
Wed 02/03 LAB	Lab 3: ImageDB with Bloom Filter
Fri 02/05	Application-level security: PGP, SSH, SSL/HTTPS, DNSSec and IP anycast K&R Sections 8.7, 8.9

Mon 02/08	IPSec and customer-based VPN, firewall
Wed 02/10	Routing: distance vector algorithm, DUAL, path vector K&R Sections 4.5.2, 4.6.1 Optional reading: Garcia-Lunes-Aceves, J.J., "A Distributed, Loop-Free, Shortest-Path Routing Algorithm," Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM '88, pp. 1125-1137, Jun. 1988. (or extended version: Garcia-Lunes-Aceves, J.J., "Loop-Free Routing Using Diffusing Computations" IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 1(1):130-141, Feb. 1993.)
Wed 02/10 LAB	Lab 4: DHT O(N) Case
Fri 02/12	Routing: link state routing and OSPF K&R Sections 4.5.1, 4.6.2

Mon 02/15 HW1 Due	Interdomain routing and BGP K&R Sections 4.5.3, 4.6.3, 4.8
Wed 02/17	BGP Policy Routing Optional reading: Gao, L. and Rexford, J., "Stable Internet routing without global coordination," IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, 9(6):681-692, Dec. 2001.
Wed 02/17 LAB	NO LAB: Work on PA2 -- GSI&IA will be in Discussion room to help
Fri 02/19	BGP Security

Mon 02/22 PA2 Due	MPLS and Layer-3 VPN K&R Sections 4.2, 5.8
Wed 02/24	Physical and link layers; Address resolution: ARP and DHCP K&R Sections 5.1, 5.4 UNP Ch. 20
Wed 02/24 ~~LAB~~ 6-8 pm	NO LAB: Midterm Exam Review 6-8 pm in 1500 EECS
Fri 02/26	MAC Protocols: CSMA/CD (Ethernet) and others K&R Sections 5.3, 5.5, 5.7 UNP Ch. 29

Week of 02/29	SPRING BREAK

Mon 03/07	LAN connectivity: hubs, switches, VLAN, software-defined networking K&R Section 5.6 Optional reading: Casado et al., "Ethane: Taking Control of the Enterprise," Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM '07, 37(4):69-74, Oct. 2007.
Wed 03/09	NO LECTURE, NO LAB Midterm Exam 6-8 pm in 1013 DOW
Fri 03/11 Assigned PA3	Cloud computing and data center networking K&R Section 5.6 Optional reading: Al-Fares, Loukissas, Vahdat, "A Scalable, Commodity Data Center Network Architecture," Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM '08, 38(4):63-74, Oct. 2008.

Mon 03/14	UDP Socket and Lab5 walk through UNP Ch. 14
Wed 03/16	Flow Control: XON/XOFF, Stop&Wait, Sliding Window ARQ: Alternating Bit, Go-Back-N, Selective Repeat K&R Section 3.4
Wed 03/16 LAB	Lab 5: Best Effort Netimg
Fri 03/18	Error control: Checksum, CRC, FEC K&R Section 5.2 UNP Ch. 29

Mon 03/21 Assigned HW2	Lab6 and PA3 Walk-through
Wed 03/23	Transport Layer; Connection establishment and teardown K&R Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.5.6 UNP Sections 2.6, 2.7
Wed 03/23 LAB	Lab 6: Forward Error Correction
Fri 03/25	Transport layer flow control and retransmission K&R Sections 3.5.3, 3.5.4, 3.5.5 UNP Sections 2.6, 2.7

Mon 03/28	Congestion control: TCP congestion window, slow start, AIMD, fast retransmit, fast recovery K&R rest of Ch. 3 UNP Section 7.9
Wed 03/30	Congestion control: effect of asymmetry, selective ACK, (CU)BIC congestion control, PRR loss recovery, MP-TCP, QUIC Optional readings: Ha, S., Rhee, I., and Xu, L., "CUBIC: A New TCP-Friendly High-Speed TCP Variant," ACM SIGOPS OS Review - Research and Developments in the Linux Kernel, 42(5):64-74, Jul. 2008. Dukkipati, N., et al., "Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP," Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference '11, pp. 155-170, 2011. Google Chromium Projects, QUIC, a multiplexed stream transport over UDP
Wed 03/30 LAB	NO LAB: Work on PA3 -- GSI&IA will be in Discussion room to help
Fri 04/01 PA3 Due Assigned PA4	Multimedia Applications K&R Ch. 7 (up to and including Section 7.3) Optional reading: Adhikari, V.K. et al., "Unreeling Netflix: Understanding and Improving Multi-CDN Movie Delivery," Proc. of IEEE Infocom '12, Mar. 2012.

Mon 04/04	Multi-player Gaming
Wed 04/06 HW2 Due	Router architecture, drop policies, and congestion notification and Quality of Service: token-bucket filter, weighted-fair queueing K&R Sections 4.3, 1.4, 7.5, 7.6 Optional reading: Demers, Keshav, and Shenker, "Analysis and Simulation of a Fair Queueing Algorithm," Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM '89, 19(4):1-12, Sep. 1989.
Wed 04/06 LAB	Lab 7: Token bucket filter
Fri 04/08	PA4 walk-through

Mon 04/11	Wireless standards, network architecture, and wireless air interface/modulation: (OQ)PSK, kQAM, MIMO K&R Sections 6.1-6.4, 8.8 Optional reading: Langton, C., "All About Modulation," part of Tutorials on Digital Communications Engineering
Wed 04/13	Wireless air interface, multiple access: FDMA, FH, TDMA, CDMA, OFDM(A); WiFi: CSMA/CA; LTE-Advanced, 5G K&R rest of Ch. 6 Optional reading: Langton, C., "OFDM," part of Tutorials on Digital Communications Engineering
Wed 04/13 LAB	Lab 8: Weighted Fair Queueing
Fri 04/15	Mobility: Mobile IP, 3GPP, SIP K&R rest of Ch. 6 Optional reading: Barnes, R. and Rosen, B., "911 for the 21st Century," IEEE Spectrum, 51(4):58-64, 2014.

Mon 04/18 6-8 pm PA4 Due	NO LECTURE Final Exam Review 6-8 pm in 1500 EECS

Wed 04/27	Final Exam 4-6 pm. Last names beginning with R to W in 1005 EECS, every one else in 1500 EECS.