Tentative Class Schedule: CS 4/56231
Internet Engineering
SPRING 2007, CS 4/56231
Page last updated: September 15, 2007
Tentative Schedule
Date
Notes PDF
Day#
Topic
Deadlines
28 Aug
L01A 1 Introduction, Definitions & Structure of Internet, Physical Infrastructure  
Request  your CID and join class Email List
30
L01B 2 Organization of Internet 
It's Management & History (2)
[BEGIN HW1]
04 Sep
L02 3 API Programming: 
Client/Server (2)

06
L03 4 Networking Review:
Point-to-Point Communication
[BEGIN PROJ]
11
L04A 5  LAN: Topology, Hardware & Extension  
13
L04B 6 Digital Trunks & Last Mile: SONET, Ethernet PHY, ADSL, Wi-Fi Mesh, Fiber To The Premises (2)
 
18
L05 7 WAN: High Speed Switching

20
L06A 8 Internet Architecture-1: Universal Service, Addressing & Binding  HW1 Due
25
9 IInternet Architecture-2: Universal Service, Addressing & Switching, Routing
 
27
L06B 10 Internet Architecture-3: IP4/6, TCP
2 Oct

11 Internet Architecture-4: OSPF

4
L07A 12 Interdomain Routing-1: Scalable Internet Routing, Autonomous Systems
Proj#1 Due
9
L07B
13 Interdomain Routing-2: BGP4
BEGIN Router Project
11
L08A
14 AS Peering-1: Policy Routing
Load Balancing, Routing Faults & Stability.
HW#2 Due
16

15 MIDTERM EXAM  MIDTERM
18
L08B
16
AS Peering-2: Peering Infrastrcture
PoP, NAP, Internet Exchanges

23
L09 17
Internet Servers-1: Basic Services Mail, IRC

25
L10 18 Internet Servers-2: Dynamic DNS
 
30

19
Web servers-1: Universal Resource Identification & MIME
Router Proj Due
1 Nov
L11a 20 Web servers-2: HTTP protocol   
6
L11b 21
Web servers-3: Persistent connection, Cache & Validation mechanisms
8

22 Dynamic documents: CGI mechanisms, Server push & client pull mechanisms
13
L12 23 Mobile code, active applications & JVM
15
L13A
24 Extensible System Design
Plug-in and Open Arch Extension
 
20
L13B 25 Secured Systems-1:
Firewalls, Encryption, SHTTP, SSL
 
22
L14 26 THANKS GIVING RECESS

27
L16 27 Secured Systems-2: Authetication Infrastructure, Digital Certificate
 Proj#2 Due
29
L20
L21
28 Advanced Topics: IP4/6 Interoperability
Emerging Technology: MPLS
 HW#3 Due

 4 DEC
  29 FINAL PROJECT DEFENSE  
6
L30
30
Futute of Internet in 2007: Flattening Networks and Layering Applications: DWDM, LambdaRail, Social Networks.
 
12
   31 ENDTERM EXAM  ENDTERM 
     
 
* All assignments and projects are due at the delivery date of the next one.