TCOM 509-002 Internet Protocols (1.5)

Instructor          Dr. Qiang Lin

Office                 Room 235, Science & Technology  II

E-mail                qiang.lin@saic.com

Telephone          (703) 676 - 8028

Time and Place Tuesday 7:20 PM – 10:00 PM, R B205.

Office Hours     Before class or by appointment.

Required Textbook D. E. Comer, Internetworking with TCP/IP, 5th, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.

Slides

There is a course web site for posting slides and homework assignments, which is at: http://briefcase.yahoo.com/.

Sign in is required to access the contents in the briefcase. Please do not remove anything from the briefcase or change the file permissions.

Homework

Will be assigned every Tuesday and is due the following week's class unless specified differently. Although the homework can be turned in later time without penalty if the student gets my permission, there will be 20% penalty on turning in more than TWO homeworks on the final exam date.

Exams

There will be one mid-term exam and one final exam for this course. Both exams will be open book and open notes.  The mid-term exam will cover the contents taught before the mid-term exam. The final exam will cover the contents taught after the mid-term exam and before the final exam. The precise dates for the exams will be listed below.

Project

There will be no projects for this course due to the extensive materials covered and the time constraint. 

Final Grade

The final grade will be determined from the combined scores of homework, mid-term exam, and final exam as follows:

·         Homework 20%

·         Mid-term Exam 35%

·         Final Exam 45%

Course Outline

Jan 22,   Tuesday:    Introduction, Concept and Classful Address. Reading: Chapters 1, 3 and 4

Jan 29,   Tuesday:    ARP, Datagram Delivery and Forwarding IP Datagram. Reading: Chapters 5, 6 and 7

Feb 5,     Tuesday:   Mid-term Exam

Feb 12,   Tuesday:   ICMP and CIDR. Reading: Chapters 8 and 9
Feb 19,   Tuesday:   UDP, TCP and Routing Architecture. Reading: Chapters 11, 12 and 13

Feb 26,   Tuesday:   BGP, RIP and OSPF. Reading: Chapters 14 and 15

Mar 5,    Tuesday:   Final Exam