WORK SCHEDULE FOR CS 3000 -- Spring 2015

• ☘ First day of class is Wednesday, January 28.
  
  
• Reading Assignments:
  • Class handouts - read the entire course description and skim this schedule.
  • Comer: The Preface
  • Comer: Chapter 01: Introduction and Overview
  • Comer: Chapter 02: Internet Trends
  • Comer: Chapter 03: Internet Applications and Network Programming
  
  
• Administrative Tasks for The First Few Days of Class:
  • Day One: Professor discusses course description
  • Day One: Professor creates waiting lists
  • Day One: Students sign up for computer accounts
  • Day Two or Three: Professor announces who is allowed to add the class
  • Day Two or Three: Professor hands out computer account info (login name & password) to class members
  
  
• Possible Lecture Topics:
  • Material from the course description
  • Course goals & procedures
  
  

• Reading Assignments in Comer:
  • Chapter 04: Traditional Internet Applications
  • Chapter 05: Overview of Data Communications
  
  
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• Reading Assignments:
  • Chapter 06: Information Sources and Signals
  • Chapter 07: Transmission Media
  
  
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• Reading Assignments:
  • Chapter 08: Reliability and Channel Coding
  • Chapter 09: Transmission Modes
  • Chapter 10: Modulation and Modems
  
  
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• Discuss Projects & Partners - IMPORTANT: we are supposed to be finished with the project approval process at the end of the work-day three weeks from today. As soon as possible: Send by e-mail:
  • The names of the three team members
  • 200 words explaining what you want to cover (give me some specifics)
  • at least one full citation of a reference you intend to use - something upon which you will be basing your work.
  That way we can have a documented feedback process leading to well-considered agreement on the nature of your project.

• Reading Assignments:
  • Chapter 11: Multiplexing and Demultiplexing (Channelization)
  • Chapter 12: Access and Interconnection Technologies
  • Appendix 1: "A Simplified Application Programming Interface" (pages 589-616)
  
  
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• Reading Assignments:
  • Chapter 13: Local Area Networks: Packets, Frames, and Topologies
  • Chapter 14: The IEEE MAC Sub-Layer
  • Chapter 15: Wired LAN Technology (Ethernet and 802.3)
  
  
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• Article Review #1 DUE Monday, Mar 2
  
  
• QUIZ #1 on chapters 1-10
  
  • ☘ Class takes the quiz on Wednesday, March 4.
  • Bring a Scantron 882-E form and a #2 pencil with you. The 882-E forms are sold in the bookstore.

• Reading Assignments:
  • Chapter 16: Wireless Networking Technologies
  • Chapter 17: Repeaters, Bridges, And Switches
  
  
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• Project Approval Deadline 17:00 (5pm), Wednesday, March 11, 2015.

• Reading Assignments:
  • Chapter 18: WAN Technologies And Dynamic Routing
  • Chapter 19: Network Technologies Past And Present
  • Chapter 20: Internetworking: Concepts, Architectures, And Protocols
  
  
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• March 17: ☘
• March 20: 春

• Reading Assignments:
  • Chapter 21: IP: Internet Addressing
  • Chapter 22: Datagram Forwarding
  
  
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• Article Review #2 DUE Wednesday, Mar 25

• Reading Assignments:
  • Chapter 23: Support Protocols And Technologies
  • Chapter 24: UDP: Datagram Transport Service
  • Chapter 25: TCP: Reliable Transport Service
  
  
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• QUIZ #2 on chapters (11-20)
  
  • ☘ Class takes the quiz on Monday, March 30 Wednesday, April 01.
  • Bring a Scantron 882-E form and a #2 pencil with you. The 882-E forms are sold in the bookstore.
  
  
• NO CLASSES TUESDAY, MARCH 31: Cesar Chavez Birthday Holiday
  
  

• Reading Assignments:
  • Chapter 26: Internet Routing And Routing Protocols
  • Chapter 27: Network Performance (QoS And DiffServ)
  
  
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• Reading Assignments:
  • Chapter 28: Multimedia and IP Telephony (VoIP)
  • Chapter 29: Network Security
  
  
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• Article Review #3 DUE Wednesday, Apr 22

• Reading Assignments:
  • Chapter 30: Network Management (SNMP)
  • Chapter 31: Software Defined Networking (SDN)
  • Chapter 32: The Internet of Things
  
  
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• Reading Assignments:
  • Chapter 33: Trends in Networking Technologies And Uses
  • Appendix 1: A Simplified Application Programming Interface
  
  
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• QUIZ #3 on chapters (TBA)
  
  • ☘ Class takes the quiz on Wednesday, May 06.
  • Bring a Scantron 882-E form and a #2 pencil with you. The 882-E forms are sold in the bookstore.
  
  
• Wednesday, May 06: All Project Web Pages Due. E-mail me notification of the URL of the project web page. (It must be published on hopper, the CS Department web server. See me or Deep Gill for help.)

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• QUIZ #3 on chapters (21-30)
  
  • ☘ Class takes the quiz on Monday, May 11.
  • Bring a Scantron 882-E form and a #2 pencil with you. The 882-E forms are sold in the bookstore.
  
  
• Possibly deliver first set of project oral presentations and turn in first set of final written reports.
  
  
  • Wednesday, May 13 @ 15:00: Vishal Malli, Doug Martin, and Summer Whitehouse
  • Topic: Routers
    
    
  • Wednesday, May 13 @ 15:25: Lucas Farrens, Brandon McDaniel, Banipal Oushana, and Jose Reynoso
  • Topic: Net Neutrality
    
    
  • Wednesday, May 13 @ 15:50: Fernando Arauza, Cristian Juarez, and Gurleen Heerey
  • Topic: Network Performance and SNMP
    
    

• Possibly deliver remaining project oral presentations and turn in remaining final written reports.
  
  
  • Wednesday, May 20 @ 14:00: Kathryn Dahlgren, Corey Trevena, and Zane Williams
  • Topic: IPv4 to IPv6 Migration
    
    
  • Wednesday, May 20 @ 14:25: Chrisian Gutierrez, Adrian Hernandez, and Gabrielle Marr
  • Topic: Cyclic Redundancy Code
    
    
  • Wednesday, May 20 @ 14:50: Mitchell Finn, Westley Hansen, and Joshua Titley
  • Topic: Packet Sniffing
    
    
  • Wednesday, May 20 @ 15:15: Adaias Bedoy, Kyle Camp, and Devin Eudy
  • Topic: ADSL Local Loop
    
    
  • Wednesday, May 20 @ 15:40: (Names TBA)
  • Topic: (TBA)