Data Networks
Saarland University and International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS-CS)
 
Summer 2007


Course Schedule

Class

Date

Day

Topic

Notes

Reading

Assignment

Comment

1

18/04

Wed

Course overview

lecture1.ppt

Chapter 1

 

 

2

23/04

Mon

Fundamental network design issues

lecture2-3.ppt

Chapter 2

 

 

3

25/04

Wed

Fundamental network design issues

 

Chapter 3

 

 

4

30/04

Mon

Internet architecture

lecture4.ppt

 

Project1

Tutorial1

5

2/05

Wed

Datalink layer problems

lecture5.ppt

 

 

 

6

7/05

Mon

Ethernet/Wi-Fi media access control

lecture6.ppt

 

 

 

7

9/05

Wed

Bridges and layer-2 switching

lecture7.ppt

 

 

 

8

14/05

Mon

Internetworking with IP

lecture8.ppt

 

 

 

9

16/05

Wed

Routing: Intra-domain routing

lecture9.ppt

 

Homework1

Solution Homework1

10

21/05

Mon

Routing: Inter-domain routing

lecture10.ppt

Chapter 4

Homework2

Solution Homework2

11

23/05

Wed

Reliable data transmission

lecture12.ppt

 

 

 

12

30/05

Wed

Review for Midterm

 

 

Project2

 

13

4/06

Mon

Midterm exam

 

 

 

 

14

6/06

Wed

Transport Protocols: UDP, TCP

lecture13.ppt

Chapter 5

 

 

15

11/06

Mon

Congestion control I

lecture14.ppt

Chapter 6

 

Project 1 Grading

16

13/06

Wed

Congestion control II

lecture15.ppt

 

 

Midterm Grades , Midterm Solutions

17

18/06

Mon

Quality of service

lecture16.ppt

 

Homework3

Solution Homework3

18

20/06

Wed

DNS

lecture17.ppt

 

 

 

19

25/06

Mon

Multicast routing I

lecture18.ppt

Chapter 9

 

 

20

27/06

Wed

Multicast routing II

 

 

Project3

 

21

2/07

Mon

Overlay networks

lecture19.ppt

 

 

 

22

4/07

Wed

Distributed hash tables

 

 

Homework4

Solution Homework 4

23

9/07

Mon

No lecture

 

 

 

 

24

11/07

Wed

Network security, firewalls, and NAT

lecture20.ppt lecture21.ppt

 

 

 

25

16/07

Mon

Review

 

 

 

 

26

18/07

Wed

Final exam

 

 

 

Final Exam Grades , Final Exam Solutions