1. CS234 – Advanced Network Tuesdays, Thursdays 3:30-4:50p.m. ICS 243
Prof. Nalini Venkatasubramanian

2. Course logistics and details
Course Web page
Lectures - TuTh 3:30-4:50p.m
Must Read: Course Reading List
Collection of Technical papers and reports by topic
Reference Books
Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (5th Edition), by Jim Kurose and Keith Ross, Addison Wesley (preferred)
Multimedia Systems, by Ralf Steinmetz and Klara Nahrstedt, Springer 2004.

3. Prerequisite Knowledge
Undergraduate level course in computer networks.
Understanding of basic networking protocols is desirable.
Basic programming skills in Java, C++,…

4. Course logistics and details
Homeworks
Paper summaries
Midterm Examination
Tentatively scheduled for end of Week 7
Course Project
Maybe done in groups
Project proposal due end of Week 3
Survey of related works due end of Week 6
Final Project presentations/demos/reports – Finals week
Potential projects will be available on webpage

5. Grading Policy Homeworks - 20% of final grade
4 topic summaries. Due on the next week after covering a topic.
Midterm - 30% of final grade
Tentatively in Week 5
Team Presentation - 10% of final grade
Due on Weak 10
Class Project - 40% of final grade
Final assignment of grades will be based on a curve.

6. Lecture Schedule Week 1,2 : Internet Week 3,4 : Peer-to-Peer Networks
Top-Down overview of internet
Applications of internet
Web-HTTP, -SMPT, FTP, Web Cache
Week 3,4 : Peer-to-Peer Networks
Overview of P2P networks
Lookup, Load Balancing, Latency, Throughput
Unstructured P2P – Gnutella, BitTorrent, KaZaa
Structured P2P – Chord, Pastry, CAN

7. Lecture Schedule Week 5,6 :Application Layer Multicasting
Basic Tree-based ALM
Locality, Reliability, Load-balancing
Forest/Mesh-based ALM
Maximizing bandwidth utilization
Flash Dissemination
Reliability and latency under high failure
Week 7,8,9 : Multimedia
Multimedia networking
Traffic Shaping and Rate control
Error control, Adaptation, Protocols
Case Studies – Token Ring, FDDI, ATM

8. Lecture Schedule Week 10 Overview of Mobile/Pervasive/Sensor Networks
Team presentation