Network Interconnection Technologies - TDC 365 - Spring 2001

Room CNA building room 402, Wednesdays 5:45 - 9:00 p.m.

Instructor Contact Info
John Kristoff (jtk@depaul.edu)
243 S. Wabash Ave., room 714 (enter via room 711)
312 362-5878 voice
312 362-8274 fax
Office hours: Mondays 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and by appointment

Course mailing list archive: http://forums.depaul.edu/majordomo/lists/2001spr365

Course overview (postscript, PDF, StarOffice, PowerPoint)

Schedule

DateTopicReadingSlidesHandoutsHomework
04/04Introduction to Internetworking
Fundamental technology review
Layer 1/2 review
Internet architecture overview
Chapter 1, 2
PowerPoint
PDF
postscript
StarOffice
TXT
TXT
04/11Bridging I
Transparent Bridging
LAN switches
Chapter 3
PowerPoint
PDF
postscript
StarOffice
TXT
TXT
04/18Bridging II
Spanning tree protocol
Source route bridging
Chapter 4
PowerPoint
PDF
postscript
StarOffice
TXT
TXT
04/25Bridging III
Full-duplex operation
VLANs
Priority, link aggregation, multicast
Bridge/switch management
Chapter 10
PowerPoint
PDF
postscript
StarOffice
TXT
TXT
05/02Routing I
Addressing
n/a
PowerPoint
StarOffice
TXT
05/09Routing II
Routing protocols
Chapter 5, 6, 7
PowerPoint
StarOffice
Midterm Guide
05/16Midterm Exam
05/23Routing III
Routing protocols
IP multicast routing
Mobile IP routing
IPv6 issues
Chapter 11, 12, 13, 14
PowerPoint
PDF
postscript
StarOffice
TXT
TXT
05/30Internetwork security and middle boxes
Firewalls
Network address translators
Gateways
Caching
Proxy servers
Chapter 8
PowerPoint
PDF
postscript
StarOffice
TXT
06/06End-to-end flow and congestion control
TCP
Queueing and scheduling algorithms
Class of service
Quality of service
n/a
PowerPoint
PDF
postscript
StarOffice
06/13Final exam/project

Textbook and printed resources

Required
Designing Routing and Switching Architectures by Howard Berkowitz
Macmillan Technical Publishing, Copyright 1999
ISBN: 1-57870-060-4

Recommended
Interconnections, Second Edition by Radia Perlman
Addison Wesley, Copyright 2000
ISBN: 0-201-63448-1

Routing in the Internet by Christian Huitema
Prentice Hall, Copyright 2000
ISBN: 0-13-022647-5

The Switch Book by Rich Seifert
Wiley, Copyright 2000
ISBN: 0-471-34586-5