UCR CS 164: Computer Networks

Winter Quarter 2007

Overview

In CS 164, you will learn many of the fundamentals of computer networking: protocol layering, socket programming, hardware basics, routing, simulations with NS-2 and more. Much of this you will learn through hands on experiences in lab and working on programming projects on your own. This course should give you plenty of knowledge to install, administrate, and debug a (heterogeneous) IP network.

Basic Information
Course Grading
Course Outline
Lectures
Labs
Homeworks
Projects
Announcements
Course Policies

Basic Information

Instructor: Srikanth Krisnamurthy (krish@cs.ucr.edu)
Office: ENG BU2, room 331
Office hours: Wednesday 10-11 a.m
Teaching Assistants: Konstantinos Pelechrinis (kpele@cs.ucr.edu)
Office hours: Wednesday 2-3 p.m, room 367
Lab Section: 22 Lectures: Monday/Wednesday/Friday 08:10 a.m. - 09:00 a.m. WAT 1111 Labs: Section 22: Friday 11:10am-2pm, ENGR2 127 Textbook:

L. L. Peterson and B. S. Davie, Computer Networks, A Systems Approach, Third Edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2003.

Other References:

The Pocket Guide to TCP/IP Sockets by Michael J. Donahoo and Kenneth L. Calvert
Unix Network Programming: Volume I by W.Richard Stevens Prentice Hall, 1998.
Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet by James Kurose and Keith Ross. Addison Wesley
Data Networks by D.Bersekas and R.Gallager. Prentice Hall.

Course Mailing List: CS 164 Mailing List
Please send any questions you may have to the mailing list, rather than the instructor or the TA.
Course Requirements: CS 141, C Programming Skills; Basic knowledge of (i) Operating Systems, and (ii) Probability Theory will help tremendously.

Course Grading:

Please refer to the first lecture where the grading policy is being mentioned.

Course Outline

Introduction to Computer Networks
Data Link Layer
Routing -- Intra Domain
Addressing and Routing Inter-domain
Transport layer -UDP
Transport layer TCP
Congestion Control
Multicast

Project
I want to remind that the project is strictly personal work and projects that have the same source code will be graded accordingly.

Announcements

Final: 03/22/2007 3 to 6 p.m. The sections covered in the class are:

Chapter 2: 2.1-2.8
Chpater 4: 4.1-4.4
Chapter 5: 5.1-5.2
Chapter 6: 6.1-6.4

The TA evaluation is ready online. Please spend a couple of mins for the evaluation. The evaluations will be available at ieval.ucr.edu until Sunday 18th of March.
This Friday 9 of March is the deadline for the demo presentation of the project. Please be sure that you will be ready because no delays will be accepted for any reason.
Here you can find the solution of the 4th problem of assignment 2.
You can find the bubble sheet for the quiz at the following link. You will use your user name and password and it will create a pdf file with your data. Please print and bring the bubble sheets with you for the quiz.
There will be attendance taken arbitrarily on 8 occasions in the lecture class (MWF 8:10-9:00 A.M.). For those students who are present for at least 6 of these occasions, a bonus of 5 % will be awarded at the end of the course.
The first quiz will be on Wednesday, January 24th.
The instruction beigns on 5th of January, so you will have your first lab on that day. It will not be skipped.

Course Policies

Material Covered: You are responsible for all material covered in lecture, assigned reading, lab, programming projects, and on the mailing list.
Collaboration policy: The rules regarding collaboration are as follows:

Midterm, final: No collaboration.
Programming projects: Discussion is encouraged, but stay away from one another's code. When discussing a problem, avoid talking in code, and avoid taking notes. If you filter the discussion through your own memory, you are very unlikely to submit code that "accidentally" indicates you collaborated. This is for your own protection.