Previous alternate offerings [Fall09] [Fall06]
The schedule below is tentative and may change as needed.

	Topics	Reading preparation, lecture notes, and additional references
	Internetworking
L1 (9/8, 9/13)	Class overview History of packet switching and the Internet Architectural principles	L0 slides (ppt, pdf) L1 slides (ppt, pdf) Read [Clark88] Additional references: [CK74] [SRC84] [K&R 1]
L2 (9/15, 9/20, 9/22)	Review Reliable transport IP addressing Hierarchical routing	Practice problem sets for no credit: PS0, PS0A K&R 3 slides (ppt, pdf) K&R 4 slides (ppt, pdf)
L3 (9/27, 9/29)	Interdomain routing What problem is BGP solving? Convergence and stability BGP in practice	L3 notes Read [GSW02] (9/27), [GR01] (9/29) Additional references: [K&R 4.5 and 4.6] [LABN01] [LMJ98] [MGVK02] [FBR04] [Consensus] [LLM10]
L4 (10/4, 10/8)	Intradomain routing What is ISP traffic engineering optimizing? TE strategies: OSPF-weights, MPLS, Oblivious Interdomain TE	Problem Set 1 (due by Oct 15) L4 slides (ppt, pdf) (No reviews necessary) Read [R06] [FT02] Additional references: [K&R 4.5 and 4.6] [Gallager77] [KZ89] [AC04]
L5 (10/15)	Intra-LAN networking Medium access control Switching vs. routing Loop-free switching Link-state switching	Project suggestions (Proposal due Oct 18) L5 slides (ppt, pdf) Read [Perlman85] Additional refereces: [K&R 5] [SEATTLE]
L6 (10/18, 1020)	Data center networking	Read [VL2'09] (10/18) [BCube'09] (10/20) Additional references: [Portland'09] [SPAIN'10] [Hedera'10]
	Multiplexed resource management	Problem Set 2 (due Nov 3)
L7 (10/27, 11/1, 11/3, 11/5)	End-to-end congestion control TCP, High-speed TCP, Background TCP RED, active queue management What is TCP optimizing?	L6 slides (ppt, pdf) Notes: What is TCP optimizing? Read [Jacobson88] [FJ93] Additional references: TCP models: [PFTK] [MSM97] High-speed TCP: [Scalable TCP] [HSTCP] Background TCP: [TCP Nice] [TCP-LP] [Multipath Nice] (uses a controller similar to [KV05]) [KMT98], [KV05], [Kelly03_tutorial], [SS_tutorial]
L8 (11/8)	Router-assisted congestion control Explicit rate feedback  Processor sharing using explicit rate feedback ATM	L8 slides (ppt, pdf) Read [XCP] K&R 3.6.3, [ATM ABR] [ATM ERICA],  [RCP]
	Take-home midterm	Midterm
L9 (11/17)	Randomization and indirection DHTs i3	L9 slides (ppt, pdf) Read [Chord]  and [i3]
L10 (11/19, FRIDAY)	Incentive compatibility Bittorrent as a game Routing as a game	L10 slides (ppt, pdf) Read [BitTyrant] or [LLSB08] Additional references: BitTorrent model: [QS04] Selfish overlay routing: [RT02] [QYZS06] [LZGT05] Mechanism for least-cost interdomain routing: [FPSS02]
	Wireless networks
L11 (11/22)	What is a wireless network? - Cellular, WLANs, meshes, sensornets, MANETs, DTNs	Problem Set 3 (due Dec 1)  K&R 6 (ppt, pdf) RAPID slides (ppt, pdf) Read [ETX] K&R 6, [DTN] [RAPID]
L12 (11/29)	What is a wireless link? - Opportunistic routing	L12 slides (ppt, pdf) Read [ExOR] Additional references: [ViFi], [MORE]
L13 (12/1)	What is wrong with TCP/wireless? - Problems and approaches	L13 slides   Background (ppt, pdf) Blocks (ppt, pdf) Read [Hop] Additional references: [NRED], [WCP],  [Westwood] [BPSK96]
L14 (12/3, FRIDAY)	What goes on the wire? - Physical layer basics	PHY intro  Read PPR [paper], [slides] Additional references: [Vishwanathan/Tse_Chptr2_slides]
	Network security
L15 (12/6, 12/8)	- DoS defense: indirection, filtering, capabilities, traceback - Misbehavior at various layers: TCP, BGP, CSMA - Worms and viruses, phishing, content modification	Problem Set 4 (due 12/10) K&R 8 slides (ppt, pdf) Read [TVA] (12/6) Additional references:   - To filter or to authorize? [LYL08] - Authentication + admission control [KKJB05]
	Wrap-up
	Take-home final (12/13)
	Project report due (12/20)