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Networks and Distributed Systems 2012-2013
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Instructor: Dr Mirco Musolesi (m.musolesi [AT] cs.bham.ac.uk) Teaching Assistant: Ian Batten (igb986 [AT] cs.bham.ac.uk) Teaching Assistant: Antonio Lima (a.lima [AT] cs.bham.ac.uk) Offered to Undergraduate final year students and Master students in Spring Term Timetable Link to syllabus pages containing information about the assessment of the module: 06-24644 Networks and Distributed Systems - for Undergraduate students 06 -23640 Networks and Distributed Systems (Extended) - for Master students |
Description of the Module
This module will explore the basic concepts, technologies and standards in the areas of Computer Networks and Distributed Systems. It will cover topics related to the Internet architecture and protocols, networking technologies, distributed systems and algorithms. It will also introduce the students to the recent trends in network technologies and systems, such as wireless networks, mobile computing, cloud computing and online social networks, by discussing real-world case studies, research papers and standardisation documents. Finally, another key part of the module will be about the practical design and implementation of distributed systems and applications.
Office Hours
Office hours: Tuesdays 3-4pm and 5-6pm (room 1.38)
If you want to arrange a meeting outside the office hours please email me (m.musolesi [AT] cs.bham.ac.uk).
Lab Classes
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays 4-6pm in UG04.
Programming Project
You can download the assignment here.
Deadline: 21st March 2013 at 12 noon.
Submission instructions will be available soon here.
Resources for the Project:
J. Dean and S.
Ghemawat.
Map-reduce: simplified data processing on
large clusters. Communications of the ACM 51:1.
Pages 107-113. 2008.
Link
to the paper
OSDI'04
version
A detailed description of Map-Reduce can be found in the Chapter 2 of the book:
Anand Rajaraman and Jeffrey David Ullman
Mining Massive Datasets
Cambridge
University Press, October 2011.
An introduction to Page Rank can be found in
the original paper by Brin and Page:
Link to the paper
Textbooks
James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross. Computer Networking. A Top-Down Approach. 6th Edition. Pearson, 2012
Amazon link
Book Website with additional resources (5th Edition)
The 5th Edition of this book is also fine.
[Indicated as Kurose&Ross below]
George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg and Gordon Blair. Distributed Systems. Concepts and Design. 5th Edition. Addison Wesley, 2011
Amazon link
Book Website with additional resources
[Indicated as CoulourisEtAl below]
Additional Resources
Larry L. Peterson and Bruce S. Davie. Computer Networks. 5th Edition. Morgan and Kaufmann, 2011.
Amazon link
John Day. Patterns in Network Architecture. Prentice-Hall, 2008
Amazon link
Srinivasan Keshav. An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking. Prentice-Hall, 2008.
Amazon link
George Varghese. Network Algorithmics. Morgan Kaufmann, 2004.
Amazon link
Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Marteen Van Steen. Distributed Systems: Principle and Paradigms. 2nd Edition. Prentice Hall, 2006.
Amazon link
Sape Mullender. Distributed Systems. 2nd Edition. Addison-Wesley, 1993
Amazon link
Class Calendar
Note In the following the references to the textbooks are abbreviated as follows:
Kurose&Ross James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross. Computer Networking. A Top-Down Approach. 6th Edition. Pearson, 2012
CoulourisEtAl George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg and Gordon Blair. Distributed Systems. Concepts and Design. 5th Edition. Addison Wesley, 2011
8 January 2013 Introduction to the Module |
Link to Slides Slide Set 1 - Introduction to the Module [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading None Further Reading Barry M. Leiner, Vinton G. Cerf, David D. Clark, Robert E. Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, Daniel C. Lynch, Jon Postel, Larry G. Roberts, Stephen Wolff. A Brief History of the Internet. Internet Society. Link to the article Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff. The Web is Dead. Long Live to the Internet. Wired. August 2010. Link to the article |
9 January 2013 Basic Networking Concepts |
Link to Slides Slide Set 2 - Basic Networking Concepts (First Part) [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading Kurose&Ross Section 1.1 What's the Internet? Section 1.3 The Network Core |
10 January 2013 Basic Networking Concepts |
Link to Slides Slide Set 2 - Basic Networking Concepts (First Part) [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading Kurose&Ross Section 1.2.1 Access Networks |
15 January 2013 Access Networks |
Link to Slides Slide Set 2 - Basic Networking Concepts (First Part) [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading Kurose&Ross Section 1.2.1 Access Networks Further Reading Cisco Systems. Digital Subscriber Line. 2000. Link to the article |
16 January 2013 Access Networks Internet Topology |
Link to Slides Slide Set 2 - Basic Networking Concepts (First Part) [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading Kurose&Ross Section 1.2.2 Physical Media Section 1.3.3 A Network of Networks Further Reading Kurose&Ross Section 6.1 Introduction Section 6.2 Wireless Links and Networks Characteristics Section 6.3 WiFi: 802.11 Wireless LANs Section 6.4 Cellular Internet Access ColourisEtAl Section 3.2 Section 3.5 Note: I suggest Coulouris et al.'s introduction if you are interested in an overview. More technical details can be found in Kurose&Ross' book. Links on Wireless Technologies IEEE 802.11 Standards 3GPP Specifications Motorola. Long Term Evolution (LTE): A Technical Overview. 2010 Wireless Networking in the Developing World [a free book about wireless technologies for developing regions - it contains interesting information about "practical" computer networking] Michalis Faloutsos, Petros Faloutsos, Christos Faoutsos. On Power-law Relationships of the Internet Topology. Proceedings of SIGCOMM '99. ACM. 1999. Link to the paper Links on Internet Topology George Siganos, Petros Faloutsos, Christos Faoutsos. Power Laws and the AS-Level Internet Topology. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Vol 11. No 4. 2003. Link to the paper Hamed Haddadi, Miguel Rio, Gianluca Iannaccone, Andrew. W. Moore, Richard Mortier. Network Topologies: Inference, Modeling and Generation. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. Vol 10 (1-4): 49-69. 2008. Link to the paper Links on the History of the Internet Paul Baran. Reliable Digital Communications Systems Using Unreliable Network Repeater Nodes. RAND Corporation papers. Document P-1995. 1960. Link to the article Paul Baran. On Distributed Communications Networks. RAND Corporation papers. Document P-2626. 1962. Link to the article |
17 January 2013 Delay and Loss in Packet-Switched Networks |
Link to Slides Slide Set 3 - Basic Networking Concepts (Second Part) [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading Kurose&Ross Section 1.4.1 Overview of Delay in Packet-Switched Networks Section 1.4.2 Queuing Dealy and Packet Loss Section 1.4.3 End-to-End Delay Further Reading For students interested in analytical treatment of these problems I would like to suggest the following book for further study: Dimitri Bertsekas and Robert Gallager. Data Networks. Prentice Hall. 1995. Amazon link Also Keshav's book (listed above as additional textbook) contains a very good treatment of these topics. Srinivasan Keshav. An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking. Prentice-Hall, 2008. Amazon link Links to Websites of Interest Transmission versus Propagation Delay applet |
22 January 2013 Network Abstraction: Layering Application Layer |
Link to Slides Slide Set 4 - Application Layer [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading Kurose&Ross Section 1.5.1 Layered Architecture Section 1.5.2 Encapsulation Section 2.1.1 Network Application Architectures Section 2.1.2 Processes Communicating Further Reading International Telecommunication Union. Recommendations. Data Networks, Open System Communications and Security Link to the documentation [these are the standards defining the ISO/OSI model] |
23 January 2013 Client-server Architecture |
Link to Slides Slide Set 4 - Application Layer [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading Kurose&Ross Section 2.1.3 Transport Services Available to Applications Section 2.1.4 Transport Services Provided by the Internet Section 2.1.5 Application-Layer Protocols Further Reading ColourisEtAl Section 3.3.4 Video Video of Google Datacenter [Link to the video] |
24 January 2013 Peer-to-Peer Systems |
Links to Slides Slide Set 5 - P2P Systems [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading Kurose&Ross Section 2.6.1 [excluding the part about the scalability of P2P architectures] Further Reading I suggest you to read this survey: Eng Keong Lua, Jon Crowcroft, Marcelo Pias, Ravi Sharma, Steven Lim. A Survey and Comparison of Peer-to-Peer Overlay Network Schemes. IEEE Communications Surveys. Vol. 7, No. 2. Second Quarter 2005. Link to the article And also these papers describing some examples of P2P systems in detail: Sylvia Ratnasamy, Paul Francis, Mark Handely, Richard Karp, Scott Shenker. A Scalable Content-Addressable Network. Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM'01. August 2001. Link to the article Ion Stoica, Robert Morris, David Liben-Nowell, David R. Karger, M. Frans Kaashoek, Frank Dabek and Hari Balakrishnan. Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Protocol for Internet Applications. Proceedings of SIGCOMM'01. Link to the article Antony Rowstron and Peter Druschel. Pastry: Scalable, decentralized object location and routing for large-scale peer-to-peer systems. Proceedings of Middleware'01. November 2001. Link to the article Stefan Saroiu, P. Krishna Gummadi. Steven D. Gribble. A Measurement Study of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Systems. Proceedings of the Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN'02). January 2002. Link to the article Daniel Stutzbach and Reza Rejaie. Understanding churn in peer-to-peer networks. Proceedings of IMC'06. 2006. Link to the article |
29 January 2013 Case Studies: BitTorrent and Skype |
Links to Slides Slide Set 5 - P2P Systems [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading Kurose&Ross Section 2.6.1 [excluding the part about the scalability of P2P architectures] Section 7.3.4 Case Study: VoIP with Skype Further Reading CoulourisEtAl Section 4.5.1 Section 4.5.2 Section 20.6.2 BitTorrent Protocol Specification v1.0 Link to the specification [this document contains several pointers to documents, papers and software of interest] Bram Cohen. Incentives Build Robustness in BitTorrent. Proceedings of 1st Workshop on Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems. 2003. Link to the article R. Srikant and Dongyu Qiu. Modeling and performance of BitTorrent-like peer-to-peer networks. Proceedings of SIGCOMM'04. 2004. Link to the article Johan Pouwelse, Pawel Garbacki, Dick Epema and Henk Sips. The Bittorrent P2P File-Sharing System: Measurements and Anaysis. Proceedings of IPTPS 2005. LCNS 3640. 2005. Link to the article M.Izal, G. Urvoy-Keller, E.W. Biersack, P.A. Felber. Al Al Hamra and L. Garces Erice. Dissecting BitTorrent: Five Months in a Torrent's Lifetime. Proceedings of PAM'04. LCNS 3015. 2004. Link to the article R. Bindal, Pei Cao, W. Chan., J. Medved, G. Suwala, T. Bates and A. Zhang. Improving Traffic Locality in BitTorrent via Biased Neighbor Selection. Proceedings of IEEE ICDCS 2006. Link to the article Michael Piatek, Tomas Isdal, Thomas Anderson, Arvind Krishnamurthy and Arun Venkataramani. Do Incentives Build Robustness in BitTorrent? Proceedings of NSDI'07. 2007. Link to the article Salman A Baset and Henning Schulzrinne. An Analysis of the Skype Peer-to-Peer Internet Telephony Protocol. Proceedings of INFOCOM'04. 2004. Link to the article Saikat Guha, Neil Daswani, Ravi Jain. An Experimental Study of the Skype Peer-to-Peer VoIP System. Proceedings of IPTPS'06. 2006. Link to the article Dario Bonfiglio, Marco Mellia, Michela Meo and Dario Rossi. Detailed Analysis of Skype Traffic. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. Vol 11. Issue 1. IEEE Press. Link to the article |
30 January 2013 HTTP |
Links to Slides Slide Set 6 - HTTP [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading Kurose&Ross Section 2.2.1 Overview of HTTP Section 2.2.2 Non Persistent and Persistent Connections Section 2.2.3 HTTP Message Format [you do not have to remember all the fields of the HTTP messages] Section 2.2.4 User-Server Interaction: Cookies Section 2.2.5 Web Caching CoulourisEtAl Section 5.2 (contains HTTP as case study) Further Reading RFC 2616. Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.1 Link to the document |
31 January 2013 Electronic Mail |
Link to Slides Slide Set 7 - Electronic Mail [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading Kurose&Ross 2.4 Electronic Mail in the Internet 2.4.1 SMTP 2.4.2 Comparison with HTTP 2.4.3 Mail Message Formats [you do not have to remember the format of the messages] 2.4.4 Mail Access Protocols Further Reading RFC 5321 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Link to the document RFC 1939 Post Office Protocol - Version 3 (POP3) Link to the document RFC 3501 Internet Message Access Protocol - Version 4rev1 Link to the document |
5 February 2013 DNS |
Link to Slides Slide Set 8 - DNS [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading Kurose&Ross 2.5.1 Services Provided by DNS 2.5.2 Overview of How DNS Works 2.5.3 DNS Records and Messages [you do not have to remember all the fields of the DNS messages] Further Reading RFC 1034 Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities Link to the document RFC 1035 Domain Names - Implementation and Specification Link to the document |
6 February 2013 Introduction to Socket Programming |
Links to Slides Slide Set 9 - Socket Programming [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Further Reading and Resources About Java Sockets: Java Tutorial on Networking Link to the tutorial Elliotte Rusty Harold. Java Network Programming. O'Reilly Media. October 2004 Link to O'Reilly website About Socket and Inter-Process Communication in Unix Brian "Beej Korgensen" Hall. Beej's Guide to Unix IPC. December 2010 Link to the tutorial W. Richard Stevens, Bill Fenner, Andrew M. Rudoff. Unix Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API (3rd Edition). Addison Wesley.2003. Amazon link W. Richard Stevens and Stephen A. Rago. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment. Addison-Wesley. 2005. Amazon link |
7 February 2013 TCP and UDP Sockets in Java |
Links to Slides Slide Set 9 - Socket Programming [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading CoulourisEtAl Section 4.2.2 Section 4.2.3 Section 4.2.4 All About Sockets Tutorial Link to the tutorial Further Reading Elliotte Rusty Harold. Java Network Programming. O'Reilly Media. October 2004 Link to O'Reilly website |
12 February 2013 Principles of Reliable Communication |
Link to Slides Slide Set 10 - Principles of Reliable Communication and TCP Design [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading Kurose&Ross 3.4 Principles of Reliable Data Transfer 3.4.1 Building a Reliable Data Transfer Protocol [overview, only the material covered in the slides - no finite state machines and implementation using functions] 3.4.2 Pipelined Reliable Data Transfer Protocols [overview, only the material covered in the slides - no finite state machines and implementation using functions] Further Resources Go back-N protocol demo |
13 February 2013 Principles of Reliable Communication |
Link to Slides Slide Set 10 - Principles of Reliable Communication and TCP Design [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading Kurose&Ross 3.4.3 Go-Back-N (GBN) [overview, only the material covered in the slides - no finite state machines and implementation using functions] 3.4.4 Selective Repeat (SR) [overview, only the material covered in the slides - no finite state machines and implementation using functions] Further Resources Selective Repeat demo |
14 February 2013 Design and implementation of TCP |
Link to Slides Slide Set 10 - Principles of Reliable Communication and TCP Design [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading Kurose&Ross 3.5 Connection-oriented Transport: TCP 3.5.1 The TCP Connection 3.5.2 TCP Segment Structure 3.5.3 Round-Trip Time Estimation and Timeout 3.5.4 Reliable Data Transfer [only part covered in the lecture] 3.5.5 Flow Control [only part covered in the lecture] 3.5.6 TCP Connection Management [only part covered in the lecture] Further Resources Selective Repeat demo |
19 February 2013 Multithreaded Servers in Java |
Link to Slides Slide Set 11 - Multithreaded Servers [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Further Reading and Resources Java Tutorial - Example of implementation of multi-threaded server Link to the article David Brown. A Simple Multithreaded Web Server. August 1997. Link to the article |
20 February 2013 Network Layer |
Link to Slides Slide Set 12 - Network Layer [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading Kurose&Ross 4.1.1 Forwarding and Routing 4.2.2 Datagram Networks 4.3 What's Inside a Router? Further Reading Kurose&Ross 4.3.1 Input Processing 4.3.2 Switching 4.3.3 Output Processing 4.3.4 Where Does Queuing Occur? |
21 February 2013 Introduction to the Design of Distributed Systems |
Link to Slides Slide Set 13 - Introduction to Distributed Systems Design [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading Coulouris&Al. 1.2.1 1.2.2 1.5.1 1.5.4 1.5.5 1.5.6 1.5.7 2.3.1 2.3.2 [No AJAX] 2.3.3 2.4.1 Further Reading and Resources Even if some parts are a bit outdated, this book contains some very well-written chapters about the general issues in designing distributed systems: Sape Mullender. Distributed Systems. 2nd Edition. Addison-Wesley, 1993 Amazon link Andrew D. Birrell and Bruce Jay Nelson. Implementing remote procedure calls. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS). Vol. 2. Issue 1. February 1984. Link to the paper Jim Waldo. Remote procedure calls and Java Remote Method Invocation. IEEE Concurrency. Vol. 6. Issue 3. July-September 1998. Link to the paper Java RMI Home Link to the website Java Tutorial - RMI Link to the website |
26 February 2013 IP |
Link to Slides Slide Set 14 - IP [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading Kurose&Ross 4.4 The Internet Protocol (IP): Forwarding and Addressing the Internet 4.4.1 Datagram Format 4.4.2 IPv4 Addressing Further Reading RFC 791 - Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) Link to the document IP Fragmentation Demo |
27 February 2013 Failures Models of Distributed Systems Distributed Computing as a Utility |
Link to Slides Slide Set 13 - Introduction to Distributed Systems Design [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading Coulouris&Al. 1.3.4 1.4 2.4.2 9.7.3 Further Reading About failure
models:
V. Hadzilacos and S.
Toueg. A Modular Approach to Fault-tolerant
Broadcasts and Related Problems. Technical
Report. Dept. of Computer Science. University of
Toronto 1994.
About distributed computing as a utility and cloud computing:
N. Leavitt. Is Cloud Computing Really Ready Ready for Prime Time? IEEE Computer. January 2009. Luis M. Vaquero, Luis Rodero-Merino, Juan Caceres, and Maik Lindner. A break in the clouds: towards a cloud definition. SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev. 39, 1. December 2008.Link to the article About the implementation of Facebook and Twitter:
Alan Mislove, Massimiliano Marcon, Krishna P. Gummadi, Peter Druschel, and Bobby Bhattacharjee. Measurement and analysis of online social networks. In Proceedings of ACM IMC'07. 2007. Link to the article |
28 February 2013 IP |
Link to Slides Slide Set 14 - IP [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading Kurose&Ross 4.4.2 IPv4 Addressing 4.4.4 IPv6 Further Reading and Resources RFC 791 - Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) Link to the document RFC 2460 - Internet Protocol Version (IPv6) Link to the document |
5 March 2013 Routing in the Internet |
Link to Slides Slide Set 15 - Internet Routing [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading Kurose&Ross 4.5 Routing Algorithms 4.5.1 The Link-State (LS) Routing Algorithm [no implementation of the Dijkstra's algorithm] 4.5.2 The Distance-Vector (DV) Routing Algorithm Further Reading A good coverage of graphs algorithms can be found in the following book: T. H. Cormen, C. E. Leiserson, R. L. Riverst, C. Stein. Introduction to Algorithms. 3rd Edition. 2009. MIT Press. Link to the book |
6 March 2013 Bellman-Ford Equation and Distance Vector Algorithm |
Link to Slides Slide Set 15 - Internet Routing [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading Kurose&Ross 4.5.2 The Distance-Vector (DV) Routing Algorithm 4.5.3 Hierarchical Routing Further Reading R. Bellman. On a routing problem. Quartely of Applied Mathematics. 16:87-90. 1958 Link to the article D. Bertsekas and R. Gallager. Data Networks. Prentice Hall. 1995. Amazon link C. Huitema. Routing in the Internet. Prentice-Hall. 1999. Amazon link |
7 March 2013 RIP and OSPF |
Link to Slides Slide Set 15 - Internet Routing [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading Kurose&Ross 4.6.1 Intra-AS Routing in the Internet: RIP 4.6.2 Intra-AS Routing in the Internet: OSPF Further Reading RFC 1058 - Routing Information Protocol Version 1 Link to the document RFC 2453 - Routing Information Protocol Version 2 Link to the document RFC 2328 - OSPF Version 2 Link to the document |
12 March 2013 DHCP and NAT |
Link to Slides Slide Set 16 - DHCP and NAT [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading Kurose&Ross 4.4.2 IPv4 Addressing Further Reading RFC 2131 - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Link to the document RFC 2663 - IP Network Address Translator (NAT) Terminology and Considerations Link to the document RFC 3022 - Traditional IP Network Address Translator Link to the document |
13 March 2013 BGP |
Link to Slides Slide Set 15 - Internet Routing [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading Kurose&Ross 4.6.3 Inter-AS Routing: BGP [overview] Further Reading RFC 4271 - A Border Gateway Protocol (BGP-4) Link to the document RFC 4274 - BGP-4 Protocol Analysis Link to the document RFC 4276 - BGP-4 Implementation Report |
14 March 2013 Data Link Layer |
Link to Slides Slide Set 17 - Data Link Layer [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading Kurose&Ross 5.1 Introduction to the Link Layer [overview] 5.1.1 The Services Provided by the Link Layer [overview] 5.1.2 Where is the Link Layer Implemented? [overview] 5.3 Multiple Access Links and Protocols [overview] 5.4 Switched Local Area Networks [overview] 5.4.1 Link-Layer Addressing and ARP [overview] 5.4.2 Ethernet [overview] Further Reading and Resources CSMA/CD Demo 802.11 Standard Websites Link to the website Standard Group MAC Addresses: A Tutorial Guide Link to the document Robert M. Metcalfe and David R. Boggs. Ethernet: distributed packet switching for local computer networks. Communications of the ACM. Vol. 19. Issue 7. July 1976. ACM Press. Link to the article |
19 March 2013 Wireless Networks |
Link to Slides Slide Set 18 - Wireless Networks [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading Kurose&Ross Chapter 6 of the book covers wireless networks in great detail. An overview of the concepts described in this chapter are sufficient for this module (see also material covered in the slides). In particular focus on WiFi and cellular networks. Further Reading The IEEE 802.11 Standard Working group website Link to the website 3GPP Initiative Link to the website Vocabulary for 3GPP specification Link to the website |
20 March 2013 Wireless Networks |
Link to Slides Slide Set 18 - Wireless Networks [1 slide per page] [handouts - 2 slides per page] Required Reading Kurose&Ross Chapter 6 of the book covers wireless networks in great detail. An overview of the concepts described in this chapter are sufficient for this module (see also material covered in the slides). In particular focus on WiFi and cellular networks. Further Reading The IEEE 802.11 Standard Working group website Link to the website 3GPP Initiative Link to the website Vocabulary for 3GPP specification Link to the website |
Additional Lectures on Network Programming in Python
Tutorials by Antonio Lima
8 March 2013 Introduction to the Python Programming Language |
Link to Slides Slide Set A [1 slide per page] |
15 March 2013 Network Programming in Python |
Link to Slides Slide Set B [1 slide per page] |
Last updated: 3 April 2013