EE 586 Communication and Switching Networks
Fall 2009 |
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Professor
Dr. Sen-ching Cheung
(cheung at engr.uky.edu)
Office: FPAT 687B FPAT (x7-9113)
Office hours: MWF 9-11am
Office: Room 831 VisCenter
at Kentucky Utility Building (7-1257 ext. 80299)
Office hours: By appointment only
Teaching Assistant
Jithendra K. Paruchuri (jkparu0 at engr.uky.edu)
Tel: 859-327-2854 (E-mail preferred)
Office hours: TBD
Schedule
Regular class: MWF 11:00am-11:50pm (FPAT 265)
Final Examination: 12/16/09, Wednesday, 10:30am – 12:30pm (FPAT 265)
Course Description
This course is an introductory survey of the design and implementation of computer networks. We will focus on the concepts and fundamental design principles that have contributed to the global Internet's scalability and robustness and will survey the underlying technologies that have led to the Internet's phenomenal success.
Topics include: congestion/flow/error control, routing, addressing, multicast, packet scheduling, switching, internetworking, network security, multimedia streaming and networking programming interfaces.
Expected outcomes of student learning
- To understand the layer
architecture of networks
- To design simple
networking applications using sockets
- To compare and contrast
TCP and UDP transport protocols
- To understand basic
network routing algorithms
- To compare and contrast
different Link Layer protocols
- To understand the
challenges of mobility in wireless and cellular networks
- To understand the challenges
of multimedia streaming
EE586 Topics
1. Introduction
(1 week)
2. Application
Layer (2 weeks)
3. Transport
Layer (2 weeks)
4. Network Layer
(3 weeks)
5. Link Layer (2
week)
6. Wireless and
Mobility (2 weeks)
7. Multimedia
Delivery (2 week)
8. Midterms and
review (2 weeks)
Grading
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Your
grade will be based on: |
Undergrad |
Grad |
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Homework
and Quiz |
30% |
15% |
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Midterm
1 |
20% |
20% |
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Midterm
2 |
20% |
20% |
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Comprehensive
Final Examination (12/16) |
30% |
30% |
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Term
Project (due 12/4) |
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15% |
- The letter grade
assignment is based on the following scale: from 100 to 90 pts => A,
from 89 to 80 pts. => B, from 79 to 70 pts => C, from 60 to 69 pts.
=> D, from 59 to 0 pts. => E.
- Homework will be
assigned weekly from the course website and is due in class.
- Each student must do his or
her homework.
Late homework will not be accepted without prior notice. NO EXCEPTION.
- Open-book pop quizzes
will be given to assess class attendance.
- Two midterms and a
comprehensive final will be given. They are closed-book and cheat sheets
are allowed.
- Students who miss fewer
than one homework OR one quiz will automatically receive 20% bonus towards
his/her final examination (or 6% of the overall course grade)
- Make-up exams will only
be given if the student contacts the instructor prior to the exam and
receives permission to make up for the test.
- Graduate students need
to complete an additional term project in order to obtain full credit. The
term project should obtain prior approval from the instructor.
- I have a zero-tolerance
policy for all forms of plagiarism, from duplicating one sentence from an
un-referenced source in your report, copying a homework answer from your
friend or solutions from previous terms to cheating in the exams. Not only
you will lose all the points for that assignment, the incident will also
be reported to the Department Chair who will determine the appropriate
disciplinary action.
Required Text
Kurose and Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, Fifth edition (preferred) and Fourth edition (acceptable), Addison Wesley.
All
assignments are based on the fifth edition and USING THE WRONG EDITION OF THE
TEXT IS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE EXCURE for handing in solutions to wrong homework
problems.
Prerequisites:
EE280 and CS 115
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modified: Saturday, August 02, 2009