Instructor:  Albert Levi, FENS 1091, x9563, levi@sabanciuniv.edu    

TAs: İsmail Fatih Yıldırım (Office FENS 2001, Office Hour: See lab web site)
         Oya Şimşek (Office FENS 2001, Office Hour: See lab web site)

Lecture Schedule:   T 16:40 - 17:30,  FENS G035
                                 Th  13:40 - 15:30,  FENS G035
Lab Schedule:          Section A:    W 15:40 – 18:30
                                  Section B:    M  8:40 – 11:30  Labs will be at FENS L058 (although schedule may say someplace different)

Lab web site

Text: Computer Networking with Internet Protocols and Technologies, William Stallings , ISBN: 0-13-141098-9
Reference: Computer Networks, 4th edition, Andrew Tanenbaum , ISBN: 0-13-038488-7
Reference:  Computer Networks and Internets, Douglas Comer, 5th ed., ISBN:0-13-504583-5
Reference: Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach Featuring the Internet, Kurose and Ross, 3rd edition, ISBN: 0-321-26976-4

Syllabus is here

Announcements

• The labs will start in the week of Oct. 19. However, some section will start in the week Oct. 26. The exact schedule of the labs is announced at the lab web site.
• Please check out the lab web site for information about the first lab. Moreover, please bring your laptops to the first lab.
• First Homework is assigned at SUCourse. Deadline is October 22. Hardcopy submission is needed.
  
• First lab homework is assigned at SUCourse. Deadline is Nov. 5. Hardcopy submission is needed.
• Second lab homework is assigned at SUCourse. Deadline is Dec. 2.
• The Midterm Exam is on Dec. 11, at 17:40. The details and the coverage of the midterm exam are here.
• Lab 4 evaluation will be done as a quiz on December 22, 2009, Tuesday during class hour in class.
  
• Course project is assigned at SUCourse. Submission deadline is January 6, 2010, Wednesday, 8:00 (in the morning). Demos will also be done the same day.
  
• Final Exam is on January 14, at 9:00 in FENS L045. The details and the coverage of the final exam are here.
  

Tentative Outline (Lecture notes will be posted here as the topics are covered in lectures)

• Introduction (part1  part2  handout)  (some materials are covered on board and are not in the notes posted here)
  
• Circuit Switching, Packet Switching, Basic delay concepts
  
• The Internet, Intranets/Extranets
• The protocol concept
  
• OSI Model
• TCP/IP Architecture
• Standardization efforts
• Applications
• traditional apps (telnet, SMTP, FTP)
  
• modern apps (HTTP, DNS, Sockets)
  
• Data Transmission Basics
• Local Area Networks (LANs) and Ethernet
  
•     Architecture,
•     Topologies
•     Technologies
  
• Data Link Control and Protocols   Midterm Exam covers the topics until the end of slide 15
  
•     Flow control
•     Error detection and correction
•     Sliding Window Protocols
  
•     HDLC, LLC, etc.
• Internet Protocol (IP) and Internetworking
• Routing
• Transport Protocols (TCP)
• Congestion Control
• TCP Traffic Control
  

• Please follow lab web site, SUCourse and email announcements for lecture and lab related homeworks. Homework assignments will not be be posted from this web site.
  

Midterm exam 30% 
Final  35%
Homework, project and labs 35% 

Make-up Policy

Important dates

PLAGIARISM WILL NOT BE TOLERATED