6.263/16.37: Tentative course syllabus

Lec# Day Date Topic

L1 Th 9/4 Introduction, OSI 7-layer architecture

L2 T 9/9 Data Link Layer: Framing, error detection

L3 Th 9/12 Point-to-Point Retransmission Algorithms

L4 T 9/16 End-to-End Retransmission & TCP

L5 Th 9/18 Queueing Models - Introduction & Little's theorem

L6 T 9/23 M/M/1, M/M/m, queues etc.

L7 Th 9/25 Networks of queues

L8 T 9/30 M/G/1 queues, M/G/1 w/ vacations

L9 Th 10/2 Reservations, priority, queue stability

L10 T 10/7 Multiple access & Aloha

L11 Th 10/9 Stabilized Aloha, Tree Algorithms

L12 T 10/14 CSMA, CSMA/CD and Ethernet

L13 Th 10/16 Traffic Modeling – LRD & Self-similar traffic

L14 T 10/21 Wireless LANs

L15 Th 10/23 Introduction to switch architecture

L16 T 10/28 High Speed Switch Scheduling

L17 Th 10/30                  Routing Algorithms

L18 T 11/4 Routing Algorithms

L19 Th 11/6 Exam

T 11/11 No Class – Veteran’s Day

L20 Th 11/13 Internet routing, IP, BGP

L21 T 11/18 Scheduling in wireless networks     

L22 Th 11/20 Scheduling in wireless networks

L23 T 11/25 Transport layer: UDP & TCP, ATM

Th 11/27 No class – Thanksgiving holiday

L24 T 12/2 Project Presentations

L25 Th 12/4 Project Presentations

L26 T 12/9                  Flow Control