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Date

Topic

References

URLs

1

20.08

Introduction to Internetworking and LAN technologies course. Basic definitions and classifications. Network context overview. 

networks01.pdf, pp.1-49

Kurose-Ross, ch. 1.1-1.6

Tanenbaum, ch. 1.1-1.9, 2.2

1. Webopedia, http://www.pcwebopaedia.com/

2. International Engineering Consortium: Web ProForum Tutorials http://www.iec.org/online/tutorials/

2

21.08

Internet Structure: Internet Routing and ISP plans. IP addressing. IP routing. Lab “IP configuration”.

networks01.pdf, pp. 50-120

Kurose-Ross, ch. 1.7-1.9,4.4

Tanenbaum, ch. 1.5, 5.5, 5.6

Lammle pp. 189-196, 232-236

1. Web-traceroute, http://www.cs.vsu.ru/~kas/tracert.php

2. IANA CCTLD, http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm

3. traceroute.org http://www.traceroute.org/

4. Leonard Kleinrock's Personal History of the Internet http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/LK/Inet/birth.html

3

22.08

Internet Structure: DNS plan. Domain Name System.

Kurose-Ross, ch. 2.5

1. IANA CCTLD, http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm

2. RIPN, http://www.ripn.net:8080/nic/whois/index.html

3. InterNIC, http://www.internic.net/whois.html

4.

4

23.08

Application layer. WWW, Proxy, P2P, CDN. Lab “Simple network servers: http, echo”

1. Tutorial on Java sockets http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-1996/jw-12-sockets.html

2. Akamai Homepage, http://www.akamai.com/

3. Developers Site for Gnutella, http://www.gnutelladev.com/

5

27.08

Transport and Network layers. TCP, UDP. Routing and forwarding, IPv4, IPv6, Multicast, DHCP, NAT. Lab “Static and default routing”.

Lammle pp. 222-245

1. Wireshark, http://www.wireshark.org/

2.

6

28.08

Link layer and LAN IEEE 802 standards. Ethernet Networking. Cabling and SCS. Lab “IOS: dynamic routing”.

Lammle pp. 24-34, 245-271

7

29.08

Layered Architecture: ISO-OSI vs TCP/IP. Stacks, functional profiles. GOSIP. Network Security. Lab “IOS: access lists”.

Lammle pp. 483-502

1. Wireshark, http://www.wireshark.org/

2.

8

30.08

WLANs. Radius Infrastructure.

1.

2. Research on TCP over Wireless Links http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~jpan/tcpair/

9

31.08

Intranets. Cisco three-layer hierarchical model. Spanning Tree. Trunking. VLANs and L3 switches. Intranet/Internet Network Management. Lab “Performance monitoring”.

Lammle pp. 42-45, 344-358, 383-411

10

3.09

WAN protocols. Dedicated, circuit-switched, packet-switched connections. VPN.

Lammle pp. 520-560