The slides are mainly based on the what's provided by Kurose and Ross, the authors of the textbook. The copyright of the unaltered slides are with them.
| Date | Topic | Reading assignments |
| Aug. 28 | Course outline and Questionnaire | N/A |
| Aug. 30 | The Network Edge and Core | 1.1~1.3 |
| Sep. 4 | network performance | 1.4 |
| Sep. 6 | Network layers, security, history | 1.5~1.6 |
| Sep. 11 | Application Layer - Web, HTTP | 2.1~2.2 |
| Sep. 13 | FTP, email(SMTP), DNS | 2.3~2.5 |
| Sep. 18 | P2P,Socket Programming | 2.6~2.8, 3.1 |
| Sep. 20 | Multiplexing, Reliable Data Transfer | 3.2~3.4 |
| Sep. 25 | Reliable Data Transfer, Roundtrip time | 3.4~3.5 |
| Sep. 27 | TCP flow and congestion control, connection management | 3.5~4.1 |
| Oct. 2 | Datagram networks, routers, IP addresses | 4.2~4.4 |
| Oct. 4 | NAT, ICMP, IPv6 | 4.4~4.5 |
| Oct. 9 | Routing algorithms | 4.5~4.6 |
| Oct. 11 | BGP, Multicast and Broadcast | 4.6~4.7 |
| Oct. 16 | Midterm at 140SH 5:30~7:30pm | |
| Oct. 18 | Link layer | Chapter 5 |
| Oct. 23 | Wireless and mobile networks
Reed-solomon codes | 6.1~6.4 |
| Oct. 25 | Wireless security | |
| Oct. 30 | Mobility | 6.5~7.2 |
| Nov. 1 | Multimedia streaming | 7.2~7.3 |
| Nov. 6 | Streaming over best-effort network | 7.3~7.4 |
| Nov. 8 | RTCP, SIP | 7.4~7.5 |
| Nov. 13 | Scheduling in QoS | 7.6~7.9 |
| Nov. 15 | Network security introduction (1 slide per page)
Is DES broken? | 8.1~8.2 |
| Nov. 20,22 | Thanksgiving break | N/A |
| Nov. 27 | Public and symmetric key cryptography (1 slide per page) | 8.1~8.3 |
| Nov. 29 | Hash and digital signature (1 slide per page) | 8.3~8.4 |
| Dec. 4 | Endpoint authentication, SSL, IPsec, passwords (1 slide per page) | 8.4~8.7 |
| Dec. 6 | Other passwords (graphics and biometrics) (1 slide per page) | |
| Dec. 11 | Firewalls (1 slide per page) | |
| Dec. 13 | Network management and cookies (1 slide per page) | |
| Dec. 18 | Final exam at 2:15 P.M. at 110 MLH (usual classroom)
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