Björn Landfeldt School of Information Technologies NETS 3303 Networked Protocols and Programming

Björn Landfeldt School of Information Technologies Introduction 13 weeks, 6cp, Lectures, Tutorials, Labs Assessment: –Mid semester exam (Theory) 30% –Assignment (Programming) 10% –Final Exam (Both) 60%

Björn Landfeldt School of Information Technologies Aims and Goals Understand the layered concept and the roles of the layers In depth knowledge of the TCP/IP protocol stack Understand design issues in protocols Ability to apply theory to network problems Programming distributed systems

Björn Landfeldt School of Information Technologies Syllabus WeekTopicRemark 1Introduction and Motivation, Review of Networking and TCP/IP 2Distributed programmingStart working on programming assignment1 3Network Layer, Subnetting 4ICMP, ping, TracerouteAssignment 1 due 5Routign and routing protocols 6IPv6. AutoconfAssignment 2 due 7Mid semester exam30% 8Transport layer, TCP, UDP 9More on TCP, socketsAssignment 3 due 10Multicasting, QoS 11Application Layer Protocols 12Caching and content distributionMajor Assignment due 10% 13DNS and revision

Björn Landfeldt School of Information Technologies Plagiarism Not acceptable according to School, University and International ethics standards Will likely be detected Why spend time at uni if knowledge is of low importance See school web site

Björn Landfeldt School of Information Technologies Special consideration Follow school policy, see web site In short: –No special consideration unless supported by documentation (medical certificate etc.) –Always apply through faculty student office (not academic staff)

Björn Landfeldt School of Information Technologies Procedure One lecture per week –Please ask questions, if limited time I will let you know Tutorials, one per week –Really ask questions!!!!!!!!! We want to help you learn this

Björn Landfeldt School of Information Technologies Tips Read through the material before the lecture Focus on understanding the CONCEPTS If you don’t understand a certain layer, chances are you will not fully understand layers above. Get used to reading RFCs and papers. You will have to in your later work

Björn Landfeldt School of Information Technologies Assumed knowledge Fundamental networking stuff NETS2009/2150 etc. Programming in C Maths (statistics, discrete) not majority of course material but will be required in places (esp. advanced)

Björn Landfeldt School of Information Technologies Material Douglas Comer, Internetworking with TCP/IP volume 3, Client-server Programming and Applications, Prentice Hall, ISBN; Library Web site –WebCT at IETF –