This is the home page for the course CS 265: Computer Networks, offered by the Department of Computer Science at the University of Vermont, Spring 2004.

General Information:

• Class meets on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in Room 367 Votey, 10:10 –11:00 a.m.
• Instructor: Robert Snapp.
• My Office Hours (in Room 353 Votey):
• Monday, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m.,
• Thursday, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m.,
• Friday, 11 a.m. – 12:00 noon.
• The GTA for this course is Tao Wang. His office hours (in Room 369 Votey) are
• Tuesday, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
• Thursday, 12:00 noon – 2:00 p.m.

Textbook:

• James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley, Boston, 2003. ISBN 0-201-97699-4. (Required.) Errata and hyperlinked references, and recommended links.

Handouts:

Most handouts are availabe in pdf format, a page description language supported by Adobe Acrobat. If you do not have Acrobat Reader for your personal computer, you can download it for free from Adobe.

• syllabus (2 pages).
• Internet Socket Application (client.c, server.c)

Lecture Slides:

• Introduction. (Modified 1/28/2004.)
• Probability Review. (Modified 2/01/2004.)
• Introduction to Socket Programming.

Homework Assignments, etc.:

• Homework 1: Read Chapter 1, and complete Problems 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 20 at the end of Chapter 1. Due by 5 p.m. on Friday, January 30, 2004.
• Homework 2: Problems 16, 17, 18, 19, at the end of Chapter 1, plus the six problems distributed in class. (Erratum: Problem 2 (on the handout) should read "... the probability that the number of bits in any packet is less than or equal to L is given by 1 – exp(–a L), for non-negative L, where a = 0.001.") Due by 5 p.m. on Friday, February 6, 2004.
• Homework 3: Read Chapter 2. Problems 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, and 19, at the end of Chapter 2 are due on Friday, February 20, 2004.
• Project proposals are due on Friday, February 27, 2004.
• Homework 4: Problems 14 and 18, and Programming Assignment 1 at the end of Chapter 2 (pp. 177 - 180). Start reading Chapter 3. Due Monday, March 1, 2004.
• Midterm Exam #1 will be held in class on Friday, March 5, 2004.
• Homework #5: Finish reading Chapter 3. Complete Problems #1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, and 21, at the end of Chapter 3. Due by 5 p.m., Friday, March 26, 2004.
• Homework #6: Complete problems #26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 33, 35, and 36, at the end of Chapter 3. Due by 5 p.m. Monday, April 5, 2004. Start reading Chapter 4.
• Homework #7: Finish reading Chapter 4. Complete problems 2 - 9 on pp. 409-410, and the programming assignmnet on p. 415.
• Homework #8: Chapter 4: Complete problems 11, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25, and 26. Due April 30, 2004.
• Midterm Exam #2 will be held in class on Friday, April 30, 2004.
• Project presentations and final reports due, Tuesday, May 11, 2004, 8:00 – 11:00 a.m.

Resources:

• A Brief History of the Internet by Barry. M. Leiner, Vinton G. Cerf, David D. Clark, Robert E. Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, Daniel C. Lynch, Jon Postel, Larry G. Roberts, and Stephen Wolf.
• Internet Mapping Project: Map gallery.Internet Service Providers
• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
• Request for Comments (RFC)
• Sun's Java Documentation includes
• The Java Tutorial.
• Documentation for Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition (J2SE 1.4.2)
• J2SE 1.4.2, API Specification
• Marty Hall's Java Programming Resources.
• Home page of the late W. Richard Stevens. Here you can find information about his textbooks, publication, and lots of well written TCP/IP and utility source code.
• Kenneth L. Calvert and Michael J. Donahoo, TCP/IP Sockets in Java: Practical Guide for Programmers, Morgan-Kaufmann, San Francisco, 2002. Source code.