WORK SCHEDULE FOR CS 3000 -- Winter 2001

• READING IN COMER: The preface and chapters 1-5: Introduction; Motivation And Tools; Transmission Media; Local Asynchronous Communication (RS-232); and Long-Distance Communication (Carriers, Modulation, And Modems)
  
  
• READING IN SOBELL: In the next week or two, finish chapters 3 (An Introduction to the Utilities) and 7 (Networking.) This material is basic Unix background you will be needing. (If you are using a book different from Sobell, then just read about the use of the following: who, finger, w, talk, write, mesg, mailx, man, echo, date, cp, mv, lp, grep, head, tail, sort, uniq, whereis, which, diff, compress, rlogin, telnet, .rhosts, rcp, ftp, rsh, ping, ruptime, rwho)
  
  
• READING CLASS INFORMATION: This week, read the information in the class web space about the article reviews and course project you are required to do. We will discuss these topics in more detail soon.
  
  
• LAB IDEAS: See the class web space -- Labs/lab-01-Unix-Basics and Labs/lab-02-Mail-and-Net
  

• READING IN COMER: Chapters 6-7: Packets, Frames, And Error Detection; and LAN Technologies And Network Topology
  
  
• LAB IDEAS: See the class web space -- Labs/lab-03-Mail-Xmit and Labs/lab-04-Snoop
  

• READING IN COMER: Chapters 8-9: Hardware Addressing And Frame Type Identification; and LAN Wiring, Physical Topology, And Interface Hardware
  
  
• LAB IDEAS: See the class web space -- Labs/lab-05-Whois and Labs/lab-06-Nslookup
  

• READING IN COMER: Chapters 10-12: Extending LANs: Fiber Modems, Repeaters, Bridges, And Switches; Long-Distance Digital Connection Technologies; and WAN Technologies And Routing
  
  
• READING IN SOBELL: If you have not done so already, finish chapters 3 and 7.
  
  
• LAB IDEAS: Those who have not finished labs 1-6 should "catch up." Others may work on labs 7-8.
  

• READING IN COMER: Chapters 13-14: Network Ownership, Service Paradigm, And Performance; and Protocols And Layering
  
  
• LAB IDEAS: If there is interest, I can remain and discuss solutions to homework problems. Those who wish may go and "catch up" or work on labs 7-8.
  
  
• DUE: Homework #1 -- Turn in a paper copy of your homework at the start of class. Keep another copy of your homework solutions. Let's discuss the homework to help get ready for the upcoming quiz #1. You can write corrections and notes on your copy. (Note: late homework cannot be accepted.)
  

• READING IN COMER: Chapters 15-17: Internetworking: Concepts, Architecture, and Protocols; IP: Internet Protocol Addresses; and Binding Protocol Addresses (ARP)
  
  
• LAB IDEAS: Let's do the quiz in the third hour of the class. Bring a blue book.
  
  
• DUE: Finalized Project Idea
  
  
• DUE: Article Review #1
  
  
• Quiz #1 -- covers chapters 1-10
  

• READING IN COMER: Chapters 18-21: IP Datagrams And Datagram Forwarding; IP Encapsulation, Fragmentation, And Reassembly; The Future (IPv6); and An Error Reporting Mechanism (ICMP)
  
  
• LAB IDEAS:
  

• READING IN COMER: Chapters 22-24: TCP: Reliable Transport Service; Client-Server Interaction; and The Socket Interface
  
  
• LAB IDEAS:
  
  
• DUE: Homework #2 -- Turn in a paper copy of your homework at the start of class. Keep another copy of your homework solutions. Let's discuss the homework to help get ready for the upcoming quiz #2. You can write corrections and notes on your copy. (Note: late homework cannot be accepted.)
  

• READING IN COMER: Chapters 25-27: Examples Of A Client And A Server; Naming With The Domain Name System; and Electronic Mail Representation And Transfer
  
  
• LAB IDEAS:
  
  
• DUE: Article Review #2
  
  
• Quiz #2 -- covers chapters 11-20
  

• READING IN COMER: Chapters 28-29: File Transfer And Remote File Access; and World Wide Web Pages And Browsing
  
  
• LAB IDEAS:
  

• READING IN COMER: Chapters 30-32: CGI Technology For Dynamic Web Documents; Java Technology For Active Web Documents; and RPC and Middleware
  
  
• LAB IDEAS: work with the client/server code
  
  
• DUE: Homework #3 -- Turn in a paper copy of your homework at the start of class. Keep another copy of your homework solutions. Let's discuss the homework to help get ready for the upcoming quiz #3. You can write corrections and notes on your copy. (Note: late homework cannot be accepted.)
  

• (Last Regular Day of Class)
• READING IN COMER: Chapters 33-35: Network Management (SNMP); and Network Security; Initialization (Configuration)
  
  
• LAB IDEAS:
  
  
• DUE: Article Review #3
  
  
• Quiz #3 -- covers chapters 21-30
  

• Deliver project oral presentations and turn in final written reports.
  
  
• DUE: Article Review #4