Computer Networking 2008 2nd Year Grenoble INP - Ensimag Telecom and CSE

Welcome to the Computer Networking course. This document is regularly updated to reflect the schedule and the current course material. The purpose of the lecture is to give you a sound understanding of computer networking with a strong emphasis on TCP/IP. Both theoretical and practical knowledge should be acquired.

Schedule

The lecture is every Friday 8:15-11:15AM (starting on September 12) in Auditorium H (in English) and in Auditorium D (en français).

Networking Lab also starts on October 13 at 2PM in rooms D200 and D201: all you need to know about the Networking Lab, in French.

Lecture notes and Calendar

• Introduction (9/12): 6 slides on page, 1 slide, with comments.
• supplementary material on Transmission - please look over it and print if needed
• Data-link layer (9/12): 6 slides on page, with comments.
• Local Area Networks (9/19, 9/26): 6 slides on page, with comments.
• Network Layer - IP (10/3, 10/10): 6 slides on page, 6 slides on page in Postscript, with comments.
• Network Layer - IPv6 and Routing (10/17): 6 slides on page.
• Network Layer - ATM (10/24): 6 slides on page.
• Reliable Transport (11/7): 6 slides on page, with comments.
• TCP (11/14): 6 slides on page, with comments.
• NAT (11/14): 6 slides on page.

Requirements

Computer Networking differs from other courses such as systems or programming. To give you a feeling of what knowledge is expected to be acquired during this course, I prepared checkup lists. The goal is to enable you to go over a chosen topic and check what kind of contents you will be required to learn. Each list has three items: Concepts to know what are the basic elements and general notions, Operation to know how the elements interact, cooperate, or function, and finally Vocabulary - you should be able to understand each term, e.g. explain it in a short sentence. The final exam will test whether you have acquired such knowledge.

Here are two checkup lists on chosen subjects - DNS and IP:

• DNS checkup list
• IP checkup list

Textbook

The course is based on the following textbook available in French and in English:

• James Kurose, Keith Ross, "Analyse structurée des réseaux. Des applications de l'internet aux infrastructures des télécommunications." Pearson Education France, 2003
• James Kurose, Keith Ross, "Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach" Featuring the Internet, 4/e, Addison-Wesley, 2007

Your team

• Prof. Andrzej Duda, Andrzej.Duda@imag.fr
• Prof. Olivier Alphand, Olivier.Alphand@imag.fr
• Dr. Mohammad Nassiri, Mohammad.Nassiri@imag.fr
• Mr. Sébastien Viardot, Sebastien.Viardot@imag.fr

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Andrzej Duda