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Computer Communications -
CSCI 551, Spring 2010, MW Section
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General Information
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MW 12:00pm - 1:20pm
(although on the schedule of classes,
it says that this class ends at 1:50pm).
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| Location |
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THH 114 (new room)
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| Instructor |
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Bill Cheng
(for office hours, please see
instructor's web page),
E-mail:
<bill.cheng@usc.edu>.
(Please do not send HTML-only e-mails. They will not be read.)
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| TA |
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Leslie Cheung,
E-mail:
<lccheung@usc.edu>,
Office Hours: TuTh 2:30pm - 3:30pm in PHE 316 |
| Grader |
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Tanasak Yongcharoen,
E-mail:
<yongchar@usc.edu>.
(The grader will hold office hours the week after the announcement of each
project assignment's grades.)
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| Midterm Exam |
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during class time, Wed, 3/10/2010 (firm)
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| Final Exam |
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11am-1pm, Fri, 5/7/2010 (firm),
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Class Resources
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| Description |
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textbooks, topics covered, grading policies, additional resources, etc.
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| Papers |
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required and recommanded technical papers.
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| Lectures |
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slides from lectures in HTML, PostScript, and PDF formats.
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| Projects |
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(please also see important information about the class projects
below.)
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| Participation |
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rules about rowcalls.
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| Homeworks |
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(2-4 homeworks will be assigned.)
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| Newsgroup |
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Google Group for discussing
course materials and programming assignments.
(This group is by invitation only.)
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News
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(in reversed chronological order)
- 4/28/2010:
The final exam will be closed book,
closed notes, and closed everything (and no "cheat sheet").
Also, no calculators, cell phones, or any electronic gadgets are allowed.
Please bring a photo ID. Your ID will be collected at the beginning
of the exam and will be returned to you when you turn in your
exam. There will be assigned seating.
The final exam will cover everything after the midterm exam
(starting at
slide 1 of lecture 15 on 3/8/2010)
to the last slide of the lecture on 4/28/2010.
For the DEC-bit paper [Ramakrishnan90a], you will only be responsible
for the queue management (DEC-bit) part of it.
Here is a quick summary of the topics covered
(not all topics covered are listed):
- Queue management
- DEC-bit [Ramakrishnan90a]
- congestion notification
- queue length
- decision frequency
- filtering
- AIMD response
- RED [Floyd93a]
- TCP throughput [Padhye98a]
- bandwidth relationship with loss probabilities, segment size,
and RTT
- triple-dupack period
- timeouts and limited advertised receiver window size
- TCP friendliness [Floyd99b]
- Peer-to-peer/Distributed Hash Table
- Freenet [Clarke02a]
- unstructured DHT system
- insertion
- search
- Chord [Stoica01a]
- structured DHT system
- finger table
- insertion
- search
- BitTorent [Yang04a]
- Integrated & Differentiated Services
- Integrated and differentiated services design issues [Shenker95a]
- Integrated services [Clark92a]
- guaranteed, predicted, and best effort services
- token buckets
- FIFO+
- Differentiated services [Clark98a]
- Differentiated services [Nichols99a]
- premium, assured, and best effort services
- two-bit diff-serv
- border router profile meters
- Measurements
- Network performance measurements [Paxson99b]
- pathologies (reordering, duplication, corruption)
- bandwidth (bottleneck BW vs. available BW)
- loss (predictive?)
- packet bunch (problems with packet pair)
- Wireless & Mobile
- Mobile IP [Johnson96b]
- Media access for wireless LAN [Bharghavan94a]
- hidden terminal
- exposed terminal
- back-off
- SNOOP [Balakrishnan95b]
- Ad hoc routing
- Sensor network [Intanagonwiwat00a]
- directed diffusion
- data-centric communication
- Multicast
- IP multicast [Deering88b]
- composed of a service model, IGMP, and
multicast routing protocols
- MBone and tunnels
- DVMRP, MOSPF
- flood and prune in DVMRP
- receivers floods in MOSPF
- PIM [Deering96a]
- shared tree vs. source tree
- sparse mode vs. dense mode
- core/center/rendezvous point
- Single-source Multicast [Holbrook99a]
- Scalable Reliable Multicast [Floyd97c]
- sender reliable vs. receiver reliable error detection
- NACK implosion
- retransmission
- Class project
- 4/4/2010:
Office hour tomorrow (Monday, 4/5/2010) has been canceled. Sorry abou the inconvenience.
- 3/3/2010:
The midterm exam will be closed book,
closed notes, and closed everything (and no "cheat sheet").
Also, no calculators, cell phones, or any electronic gadgets are allowed.
Please bring a photo ID. Your ID will be collected at the beginning
of the exam and will be returned to you when you turn in your
exam. There will be assigned seating.
The midterm exam will cover everything from the beginning of the
semester till the end of Lecture 14 on 3/3/2010 (includes materials
from part of [Ramakrishnan90a]). For [Ramakrishnan90a], you will
only be responsible for part of it covered
under TCP congestion control (fairness and efficiency)
and not under queue management (DEC-bit).
Regarding what types of questions will be on the midterm, please see
the Exams section of the course description.
Here is a quick summary of the topics (not all topics covered are listed):
- Networking basics
- Architecture
- Internet design issues [Clark88a]
- End-to-end argument [Saltzer81a]
- IP (protocol hourglass) [Deering98a]
- Routing
- Landmark routing [Tsuchiya88a]
- Unicast routing
- static routing
- distance vector
- link state
- Interdomain routing (BGP)
- BGP messages
- BGP attributes and policy routing
- EBGP vs IBGP
- multihoming
- Delayed convergence [Labovitz00a]
- TCP
- basic TCP mechanisms
- window-based flow control
- SYN & 3WH
- FIN
- client state sequence
- server state sequence
- window flow control
- TCP extensions
- congestion control (includes part of [Ramakrishnan90a])
- congestion collapse
- congestion control vs. congestion avoidance
- fairness
- efficiency
- stability
- Congestion control mechanisms [Jacobson88a]
- slow start
- congestion avoidance
- fast retransmit
- TCP Tahoe, Reno, New Reno, TCP SACK [Fall96a]
- fast recovery
- New Reno partial ACK
- TCP SACK
- TCP Security and performance issues
- SYN floods
- SMURF attacks
- high bandwidth-delay networks
- Queue management
- Fair queueing & weighted fair queueing [Demers89a]
- arrival time
- start time
- finish time
- 1/7/2010:
On the
schedule of classes,
it says that this class starts at 12:00pm and ends at 1:50pm.
In actuality, the lecture time for this class is 80 minutes per class
meeting. Therefore, lectures will end at 1:20pm.
- 1/7/2010:
Registering with the class mailinglist
is required for this class because you must get your port assignments.
If you have not done so, please visit the
mailinglist page after the semester starts.
(You do not have to be registered for the course to register with the
class mailinglist.) In the registration confirmation e-mail, you will
also get your user ID and password for accessing protected area of this
web site.
- 1/7/2010: Watch this area for important announcements.
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Prerequisites
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Please note that the instructor has never and will never
sign anything that says that you can waive any of the prerequisites below
for a Master's student:
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Important Information about
the Class Projects
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The class projects will take more than 5,000 lines of C/C++ code
to be developed on a UNIX environment. No other programming language
will be accepted and your program must compile and run with a Makefile
on nunki.usc.edu. (Sorry, no Java.)
You must be familiar with the UNIX
development environment (vi/pico/emacs, cc/gcc or g++/CC, make, etc.)
If a student signs up late for this class or could not be present
at the beginning of the semester,
he/she is still required to turn all projects and homeworks
on time or he/she will receive a score of 0 for these assignments.
No exceptions!
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