Lecture Notes
Class Outline
I Intend to cover from the following topics. Some of the outlines might be entirely from my lecture. The order will depend in part on student interaction and input.
- Course Overview and Intro
- What is the Internet?
- Edge and Core
- Performance: Throughput and Bottleneck Link Analysis
- Protocol Layering and Security Basics
- Application Layer
- Principles of Network Applications
- The Web and HTTP: Architecture, Web Caching, Cache Design Basics, Cookies
- Electronic Mail and SMTP: Architecture, Message Transfer, Mail Access Overview
- DNS: Name Resolution, Caching, Hierarchy
- P2P Applications, Video Streaming, Content Distribution Networks (CDNs)
- Transport Layer
- Principles of Transport: UDP; UDP and TCP Sockets
- Reliable Data Transfer: Multiplexing/Demultiplexing, RDT, Pipelining
- Reliable Data Transfer Mechanisms: Go-Back-N vs. Selective Repeat
- TCP Connection Management: 3-Way Handshake (SYN/ACK), Teardown (FIN), Reliability
- TCP Flow Control
- TCP Congestion Control
- Network Layer: Data Plane
- Overview and Addressing
- Dissecting a Router: Destination-Based Forwarding, Switching Fabrics
- Circuit-Switched vs. Packet-Switched Approaches
- Packet Forwarding: Packet Scheduling Algorithms
- Internet Protocol (IP)
- Generalized Forwarding and SDN
- Network Layer: Control Plane
- Routing Algorithms: Dijkstra’s Algorithm
- Per-Router Control vs. Centralized Control
- Software-Defined Networking (SDN): Architecture, Abstractions, Control Logic
- SDN Control Plane: OpenFlow Protocol
- Link Layer and LANs
- Introduction to the Link Layer and Multiple Access Links
- Error Detection and Correction
- Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
- LANs and Virtual Networks/Links
- Network Security
- Network and Transmission Attacks: Eavesdropping, Session Hijacking, IP Spoofing, DoS
- LAN and Name-Service Attacks: ARP Poisoning, DNS Poisoning
- Buffer Overflows
- AI-Enabled Traffic Inference and Anomaly Detection
- TLS and IPsec
