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

TAs: İsmail Fatih Yıldırım (Office FENS 2001, Office Hour: Thurdays 12:30 - 14:30)
         Oya Şimşek (Office FENS 2001, Office Hour: Tuesdays 17:30 - 19:30)

Lecture Schedule:   M 15:40 - 17:30,  FENS G032
                                 W 12:40 - 13:30,  FENS G032
Lab Schedule:          Section A:    Th. 8:40 – 11:30
                                  Section B:   F 8:40 – 11:30  Labs will be at FENS L065

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

• Labs will start fourth week (March 12 and 13). A1/B1 and A2/B2 sections will take the labs in alternating weeks. All labs will be in FENS L065. The lab schedule for the entire semester is at the lab website. Please check out the details at the lab web site. The link is above.
  
• Term project has been assigned at SUCourse. The demos will be held on June 8, 2009, Monday.
  
• Final Exam will be held on June 1, 2009, Monday at 16:00.
• in FENS L045 for lastnames that start with A ... Ö
  in G032 for lastnames that start with P ... Z
  
• The exam will ne closed book, closed notes.
• Calculators are allowed.
• Final exam coverage and detailed information are here (since final exam coverage refers to midterm coverage, you may also need midterm exam coverage which is 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 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 this web site, lab web site, SUCourse and email announcements for lecture and lab related homeworks

There will be 4-5 labs. During these labs you will have hands-on experience and/or practical lectures on Internet protocols (via packet capturing and analysis), DNS and various server installations and configurations, LAN design and implementation, IP subnetting. More information on lab sessions will be posted on the web site in time.

There will be 4 - 5 homework assignments and a term project. Homework assignments will mostly be related labs. However there may be a few assignments about lecture material as well. Some homework may require programming. Homework assignments are to be done individually. Moreover there will be term project. Project will be about implementing/simulating computer network features and/or development of applications that run on networks (this may also require an application layer protocol design). Students may work in teams for the term project.

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

Make-up Policy

Important dates

PLAGIARISM WILL NOT BE TOLERATED