The
schedule is tentative and subject to change. Syllabus Schedule/Downloads
Schedule/Downloads (Last update: 02/14/25)
The
schedule is tentative and subject to change.
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Chapter |
Topic |
24-1 |
25-1 | ||||||
| Handout | Week | Date and Lecture Video | Annotated Handout | Date and Video | Daily Quiz # | ||||
| 0 | Course Administration | 1 | 2/20鉢 | 01 | 2/18T | 01 | |||
| 1 | The Internet | hosts, routers, links | ch01.pdf | 2/22鯉 | 02 | 2/20Th | 02 | ||
| IP packets | |||||||||
| packet vs. circuit switching, addressing, routing table | 2 | 2/27鉢 | 03 | 2/25T | 03 | ||||
| error detection and ARQ, congestion and flow controls, DNS, WWW, http, hyperlink, URL | 2/29鯉 | 04 | 2/27Th | 04 | |||||
| 2 | Principles | Connectivity, cost, network topology, scalability, extensibility, sharing links, backbone network | ch02.pdf | ||||||
| bandwidth vs. capacity, rate, delay of a packet | 3 | 3/5鉢 | 05 | 3/4T | 05 | ||||
| throughput of a transfer; window size, RTT, and bottleneck link of a transfer; new apps and new metric, delay jitter; M/M/1 queue, Little's results, | |||||||||
| fairness; Scalability, addressing, routing, naming, gateway, subnet | 3/7鯉 | 06 | 3/6Th | 06 | |||||
| Flexibility, layers; (Ethernet as a layer 1-2 protocol, TCP/IP as a layer 3-4 protocol suite, OSI 7 layers by ISO, ITU OTU4; Application Topology, client-server, p2p, etc.) | |||||||||
| 3 | Ethernet | Typical installation, History | ch03.pdf | 4 | 3/12鉢 | 07 |
3/11T |
07 |
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| multiple-access, broadcast, FDD, ALOHA network, collision | 3/14 鯉 | Quiz #1 (See PLMS) |
3/13Th |
Quiz A |
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| 08 |
3/18T |
08-09 |
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| capture, randomized MA, cable Ethernet, CSMA/CD, IEEE | 5 | 3/19鉢 | 09 | ||||||
| IEEE 802 Working groups, Addresses, Frame, PHY | 3/21鯉 | 10 | 3/20Th | 10 | |||||
| Switched Ethernet, Performance Analysis, slotted ALOHA | 6 | 3/26T | 11 | 3/25T | 11 | ||||
| maximum CDT | 3/28Th | 12 | 3/27Th | 12 | |||||
| 4 | Wi-Fi | WLAN, IEEE802.11, Wi-Fi, radio spectrum bands, radar frequency bands, ISM bands, U-NII bands, channel, bandwidth vs. channel width | ch04.pdf | ||||||
| Basic Operations, Medium Access Control, CSMA/CA, RTS, CTS | 7 | 4/2T | 13 | 3/31M | Exam 1 | ||||
| 4/1T | 13 | ||||||||
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Frames, PHY frame,
PLCP header, preamble PHY of Wi-Fi 4--6, Real passband signal and its Equivalent Complex baseband signal, Complex-valued modulation symbol, QAM, MCS, MIMO, SU-MIMO, DL-MU-MIMO, UL-MU-MIMO |
4/4Th | 14 | 4/3Th | 14 | |||||
| 8 | 4/9T | Exam #1(covers upto CM#14) | |||||||
| MAC performance analysis | 15 | 4/8T | 15 | ||||||
| 5 | Routing | Two-level routing | ch05.pdf | ||||||
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Inter-domain routing, Destination-based, peering vs. transit
agreement, routing table, path vector, next hop IP address
the BGP for inter-domain routing, Case study on Facebook outage, IXP, Case Study on an ISP's backbone traffic analysis |
4/11Th | 16 | 4/10Th | 16 | |||||
| Dijkstra's algorithm for intra-domain routing, Bellman-Ford algorithm, Anycast, Multicast, FEC in L3 | 9 | 4/16T | 17 | 4/15T | 17 | ||||
| Network coding, ad hoc network | 4/18Th | 18 | 4/17Th | 18 | |||||
| 6 | Internetworking | internetworking, connected, broadcasting capable, subnet, gateway | ch06.pdf | ||||||
| ARP, DHCP: static vs. dynamic IP addresses, NAT: public vs. private IP addresses, | 10 | 4/23T | 19 | 4/22T | 19 | ||||
| 7 | Transport | Port, Applications, Port Forwarding, Transport layer, UDP and header, TCP header, TCP states, | ch07.pdf | 4/25Th | 20 | 4/24Th | 20 | ||
| Error control, Congestion control, AIMD | 11 | 4/30T | 21 | 4/29T | 21 | ||||
| Fast retransmit, Fast recovery, TCP Slow Start, Flow control | 5/2Th | Quiz #2 (covers upto CM#21) | 5/1Th | Quiz B | |||||
| 22 | 5/8Th | 22-23 | |||||||
| 9
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LTE and NR |
9.0 Introduction
- A brief history of electrical communications, - Modern telecommunications network, - Wireless telephone |
ch09a.pdf | 12 | 5/7T | 23 | |||
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9.1 Cellular Network
- the cellular concept, - frequency reuse factor, - cell planning -PSTN |
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| 13 | 5/14T | 24 | 5/13T | 24 | |||||
| 9.2 Technology Evolution | |||||||||
| 5/16Th | 25 | 5/15Th | 25 | ||||||
| 9.3 Key Aspects of LTE | 14 | 5/21T | 26 | 5/20T | 26 | ||||
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9.4 LTE-Advanced 9.8 5G NR |
ch09b.pdf | 5/23Th | 27 | 5/22Th | 27 | ||||
9.9 C-RAN, vRAN, and O-RAN |
ch09c.pdf | 15 | 5/28 | 28 | 5/27T | 28 | |||
| 8 | Models | Graph, Probability, Queueing, and Optimization | ch08.pdf | 5/30 | 29 | 5/28Th | 29 | ||
| 10 | QoS | End-to-end principle, meaning of QoS in networking, net neutrality | ch10.pdf | ||||||
| 11 | Physical Layer | Radio Link, channel capacity, AWGN ber vs. Eb/N0; Optical Link | ch11.pdf | ||||||
| 12 | Additional Topics | Switches, Sensor network, Distributed algorithms, Byzantine agreement problem, Source compression, SDN and NFV, IoT, Remote computing and storage paradigms | ch12.pdf | ||||||
| Final Exam (Chs. 1--12) | 6/2M | Exam 2 | |||||||