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

TAs: İsmail Fatih Yıldırım (Office FENS 2001, Office Hour: See lab website)
         Oya Şimşek (Office FENS 2001, Office Hour: See lab website)         
         Onur Çatakoğlu (Office FENS 2001, Office Hour: See lab website)

Lecture Schedule:   T 9:40 - 10:30,  FENS G035
                                 Th  9:40 - 11:30,  FASS 1103
Lab Schedule:          Section A1:   F 15:40 – 17:30, FENS L027
                                  Section A2:   F 15:40 – 17:30 FASS G049
                                  Section B:    F 11:40 – 13:30, FASS G049

Lab and TA web site

Main Textbook: Computer Networking with Internet Protocols and Technologies, William Stallings
Reference: Computer Networks, 4th edition, Andrew Tanenbaum
Reference:  Computer Networks and Internets, Douglas Comer, 5th ed.
Reference: Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach Featuring the Internet, Kurose and Ross, 4th or 5th edition
Reference:  Data and Computer Communications, Stallings, 6th edition

Syllabus is here

Announcements

• No labs in the first week. Starting date of the labs will be announced later.
• No lecture on September 27, 2011, Tuesday. We will meet on September 29, 2011, Thursday at regular lecture hour.
• The labs will start on October 21, 2011. Please visit the lab web site frequently for the details and dates of the labs.
  
• Homework 1 has been assigned at SUCourse. The deadline is Oct. 27, 2011, class time.
• Homework 2 has been assigned at SUCourse. The deadline is Nov. 17, 2011, class time.
• Homework 3 has been assigned at SUCourse. The deadline is Dec. 1, 2011, 22:00.  It has been postponed to Dec 6, 2011, 22:00.
  
• Lab 4 has been postponed to Dec. 30.
  
• There will be a recitation at the lab hours on Dec. 9. Sections A1 and A2 are merged in FASS G049.
• There will be extra lectures on Dec. 23 and Jan. 6 at 15:40 - 17:30 in FASS G049.
  
• Midterm Exam will be held on December 15, 2011, Thursday, 9:40 - 11:30.
• Lastname [A - K] in FASS 1103;     Lastname [L - Z] in FENS L063
  
• The exam will ne closed book, closed notes.
• Calculators are allowed but not to be shared.
• Midterm exam coverage and detailed information are here
  
• The quiz for the 4th lab willl be held on Jan 5, 2012 in the class.
  
• Term Project has been assigned at SUCourse. Deadline is Jan. 4, 2012, 22:00.
  
• Late submission of the Term Project is possible until Jan 6, 2012, 07:00 with no late penalty.
• The final exam will be held on Jan 19, 2012, Thursday, 9:00, in FASS G062. The details and the coverage of the final exam are here.
• There will be an extra recitation on Jan. 16, 2012, Monday, 12:30 - 15:30 in FENS G032.
  

Tentative Outline (Lecture notes will be posted here after the topics have been covered in lectures)

• Introduction (part1  handout  part2)  (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 in the labs)
  
• 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 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