WORK SCHEDULE FOR CS 3000 -- Fall 2002

• Week #1 is a short week -- we have class only on Thursday, September 5.
  
  
• READINGS IN COMER:
  • The preface
  • Chapter 01: Introduction;
  • Chapter 02: Motivation And Tools; and
  • Chapter 03: Network Programming And Applications
  
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• I will distribute course handouts on the first day of class. You can print copies of the document you are reading now (the course schedule) and the course description located here. Please carefully read the course description this week. If you need a computer account or help with your username and password, please fill out and submit one of the account service forms. After you fill out the form you can e-mail it to me or print it and give it to me.
  
  
• Try doing a "Hello World" tutorial on one of the Sun Ultra computers in the Computer Science Lab. Ask me for help next week if you have any problems.
  
  

• READINGS IN COMER:
  • Chapter 04: Transmission Media;
  • Chapter 05: Local Asynchronous Communication (RS-232);
  • Chapter 06: Long-Distance Communication (Carriers, Modulation, And Modems); and
  • Chapter 07: Packets, Frames, And Error Detection
  
  
  
• LAB IDEAS: See the class web space
  • Labs/lab-01-Unix-Basics and
  • Labs/lab-02-Mail-and-Net
  
  
  
• Professor Sarraille will be in Long Beach all day on Thursday, Sept. 12, performing duties as a member of the CSU Statewide Academic Senate. Class will be held that day. The class will perform labs one and two that day. Julie Gorman, our system administrator, has agreed to answer your questions about the lab.
  
  

• READINGS IN COMER:
  • Chapter 08: LAN Technologies And Network Topology; and
  • Chapter 09: Hardware Addressing And Frame Type Identification
  
  
  

• READINGS IN COMER:
  • Chapter 10: LAN Wiring, Physical Topology, And Interface Hardware; and
  • Chapter 11: Extending LANs: Fiber Modems, Repeaters, Bridges, and Switches
  
  
  
• READING IN SOBELL: If you have not done so already, finish chapters 3 and 7.
  
  
• DUE Tuesday, September 24: 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 in-term exam #1. You can write corrections and notes on your copy. (Note: late homework cannot be accepted.)
  
  
• DUE Tuesday, September 24: Article Review #1
  
  

• READINGS IN COMER:
  • Chapter 12: Long-Distance Digital Connection Technologies; and
  • Chapter 13: WAN Technologies And Routing
  
  
  

• READINGS IN COMER:
  • Chapter 14: Connection-Oriented Networking And ATM;
  • Chapter 15: Network Characteristics: Ownership, Service Paradigm, And Performance; band
  • Chapter 16: Protocols And Layering
  
  
  
• DUE Tuesday, October 08: 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 in-term exam #1. You can write corrections and notes on your copy. (Note: late homework cannot be accepted.)
  
  
• In-Term Exam #1 on chapters 1-13, Thursday, October 10: Please bring a small blue book .
  
  
• Also DUE Thursday, October 10: Finalized Project Idea
  
  
• LAB IDEAS: See the class web space
  • Labs/lab-03-Mail-Xmit and
  • Labs/lab-04-Snoop
  
  
  

• READINGS IN COMER:
  • Chapter 17: Internetworking: Concepts, Architecture, and Protocols;
  • Chapter 18: IP: Internet Protocol Addresses; and
  • Chapter 19: Binding Protocol Addresses (ARP)
  
  
  
• DUE Tuesday, October 15: Article Review #2
  
  
• LAB IDEAS: See the class web space
  • Labs/lab-05-Whois and
  • Labs/lab-06-Nslookup
  
  
  

• READINGS IN COMER:
  • Chapter 20: IP Datagrams And Datagram Forwarding;
  • Chapter 21: IP Encapsulation, Fragmentation, And Reassembly; and
  • Chapter 22: The Future (IPv6)
  
  
  

• READINGS IN COMER:
  • Chapter 23: An Error Reporting Mechanism (ICMP);
  • Chapter 24: TCP: Reliable Transport Service; and
  • Chapter 25: Internet Routing
  
  
  
• DUE Tuesday, October 29: Homework #3 -- Turn in a paper copy of your homework at the start of class. Keep another copy of your homework solutions. We will discuss the homework immediately. You can write corrections and notes on your copy. (Note: late homework cannot be accepted.)
  
  
• LAB IDEAS: See the class web space
  • lab-07-Ethernet and
  • lab-08-R-commands
  
  
  

• READING IN COMER:
  • Chapter 26: Client-Server Interaction;
  • Chapter 27: The Socket Interface; and
  • Chapter 28: Examples Of A Client And A Server
  
  
  
• DUE Tuesday, November 05: Article Review #3
  
  
• In-Term Exam #2 on chapters 14-25, Thursday, Nov 07: Please do not bring a blue book for this exam .
  
  
• Professor Sarraille will be in Long Beach Wednesday, November 6 through Friday, November 8, performing duties as a member of the CSU Statewide Academic Senate.
  
  

• READINGS IN COMER:
  • Chapter 29: Naming With The Domain Name System;
  • Chapter 30: Electronic Mail Representation And Transfer;
  • Chapter 31: File Transfer And Remote File Access; and
  • Chapter 32: World Wide Web Pages And Browsing
  
  
  
• LAB IDEAS: See the class web space
  • lab-09-Client-Server and
  • lab-10-CGI