Communication Networks (Spring 2011)

The course introduces fundamental concepts of computer networking. We will also discuss Internet protocols and applications.
We will mostly follow the textbook "Computer Networking" by Kurose and Ross (See in the textbooks section below).

	Teacher	Time	Place
Lecture	Dr. Eliezer Dor	Thu 17:00-20:00	Dach 005
Recitation	Allon Wagner	Tue 16:00-17:00 / Tue 17:00-18:00	Dan David 001

	Teacher	Email	Office Hours
Lecturer	Dr. Eliezer Dor	eliezer.dor /at gm/ail	by appointment
TA	Allon Wagner	allonwag /at po/st tau ac il	Tue. 18-19 Orenstein 410, or by appointment
Grader	Denis Eydelman	deniseydelman /at g/mail

• Computer Networking: A Top-down Approach, by J. F. Kurose and K. W. Ross (3rd edition or later).
• Computer Networks, by A. S. Tanenbaum (4th edition or later).
• Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, by L. L. Peterson and B. S. Davie (3rd edition or later).
• An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking, by S. Keshav.

No.	Lecture	Recitation
1	Introduction and Layering (Additional Slides)	Introduction & Socket Programming (slides, handouts) Multiple Access Protocols (slides, handouts)
2	Physical Layer, Data Link Layer, MAC Protocols, ARP
3	Hubs, Switches, Routers, STP
4	Network Layer - Forwarding	Error Detection and Correction, Ethernet's CSMA\CD (slides, handouts)
5	Network Layer - Routing	Hubs, Link-layer switching, STP (slides, handouts)
6	Reliable Data Transfer	Network Layer - Packet Switching vs. Circuit Switching, DHCP, ICMP (slides, handouts)
7	Transport Protocols Basics	Network Layer - Routing (slides)
8	Transport Protocols - TCP (Additional slide)	Go-Back-N, Selective Repeat, TCP Retransmission Timeout (slides, handouts)
9	The Application Layer	Max-Min Fairness (slides, handouts) TCP Connection Management (slides, handouts)
10	Network Security	Max-Min Fairness - another example (slides, handouts) DDoS and Related Attacks (slides, handouts)
11	-	RSA and Digital Signatures (slides, handouts) Rehearsal (slides, handouts)

Please read the homework submission guidelines first.
Denis's (the HW grader) mailbox is Schreiber 294, and his email address is deniseydelman /at g/mail.
Final Homework Grades

Assignment	Due date	Notes
Practical #1	15.03.2011 19:00
Theoretical #1	27.03.2011 19:00
Practical #2	13.04.2011 19:00
Theoretical #2	28.04.2011 20:00
Practical #3	22.05.2011 19:00
Theoretical #3	02.06.2011 20:00
Theoretical #4	15.06.2011 20:00	Note: question 3 was corrected

Wireshark's website
On the Debian machines in our school you will find it under Applications -> Internet.

Closed-books final exam will be held on 22.06.2011, 09:00.
You may bring 4 pages (i.e. 2 two-sided sheets) with you to the exam.

Please see the exam instructions.

A collection of past exams is available here. Please note:

1. The topics covered are not identical in all years.
2. Some errors were previously found in the published solutions, so don't take them for granted.

A collection of past exams Eliezer has given in Afeka College is available here.