Objectives | Lecturers | Content, material, and schedule | Lab Experiences | Exams | Bibliography | Final project

Recording of lectures will be made available on the teaching portal and linked from the corresponding event in the calendar below.

Introduction to computer networks

• Definitions, services, topologies, switching techniques (1x, 2x, 3x, 1x)
• Layered models and the OSI protocol architecture (1x, 2x, 3x, 6x)
• Window-based protocols (2x, 3x, 6x)

The lowest layers

• Physical layer and access networks (2x, 3x, 6x)
• Data-link layer (2x, 3x, 6x)

Local area networks

• Basic concepts (2x, 3x, 6x)
• Protocol standards (1x, 3x)
• Interconnection of local area networks (1x, 3x)
• Wireless LANs

Internet protocol suite: the network layer

• IPv4: introduction and packet format (color, black&white)
• Addressing (color, black&white)
• Packet routing (color, black&white)
• Service protocols: ARP and ICMP (color, black&white)
• Name resolution and the DNS (color, black&white)
• Association of addresses to interfaces (color, black&white)
  • Static
  • Dynamic through DHCP
  • Automatic
• Private addressing and NAT (color, black&white) [chap. 4.4.7 of Kurose’s book]

Internet protocol suite: the transport layer [chap. 3.2 of Kurose’s book]

• General transport layer features and User datagram protocol (UDP) (color, black&white) [chap. 3.3 of Kurose’s book]
• Transport control protocol(TCP) [chap. 3.5 of Kurose’s book]

Internet protocol suite: application layer protocols

• Client-server and peer-to-peer architectures (Kurose’s slides 7 to 10, also in PDF)
• World Wide Web and HTTP (color, black&white) [chap. 2.2 of Kurose’s book]
• File transfer protocol (FTP) (Kurose’s slides 46 to 48, also in PDF) [chap. 2.3 of Kurose’s book]
• Electronic mail: architecture and protocols (color, black&white) [chap. 2.4 of Kurose’s book]
  • SMTP (Simple Message Transfer Protocol)
  • POP (Post Office Protocol)
  • IMAP (Internet Mail Access Protocol)
  • Web mail

Classroom exercises

• Designing an IP addressing plan
  • Additional exercises with solutions
• Static routing
  • Additional exercises with solutions

Lab experiences

• Network troubleshooting tools (1x, 3x)
• Proposed experiences:
  • first session
  • second session
    • IP encapsulation
    • Addressing and routing
  • third session
    • DNS
    • FTP traffic analysis
  • fourth session
    • Web (HTTP) traffic analysis
    • e-mail protocols
• Additional experiences with solutions

Schedule:

The lecture and lab session schedule can be downloaded/linked in ics format.