Syllabus

Date	Topic/Reading Assignment
Sep 22	Introduction
Sep 27	Protocol Layering (P&D Ch. 1 [except 1.4])
Sep 29	Signalling and Clock Recovery (P&D, Ch 2-2.2)
Oct 4	Data Link I: Framing and Error Control (P&D 2.3-2.4)
Oct 6	Data Link II: Media Access Control (P&D 2.6-2.8)
Oct 11	Data Link III: Switching and Bridging (P&D 3.1-3.2)
Oct 13	Internetworking (P&D 4.1)
Oct 18	Reliable Communications (P&D 2.5, 5-5.2)
Oct 20	Reliable Communication (continued)
Oct 25	Midterm (Midterm solutions)
Oct 27	Off
Nov 3	Congestion Control (P&D 6.3-6.4)
Nov 8	Routing I: Overview and Distance Vector Algorithms (P&D 4.2-4.22)
Nov 10	Routing II: Link State Algorithms
Nov 15	Routing III: Multicast (P&D 4.4)
Nov 17	Routing IV: Inter-domain routing (P&D 4.3-4.3.3
Nov 22	Router Design
Nov 24	Thanksgiving
Nov 29	QoS
Dec 1	Finishing QoS and Final review
Dec 6	Final. (Sample Final questions)