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