Virginia Tech

Department of Computer Science

CS4254 Computer Network Architecture and Programming

Spring 2006

Lectures: Tuesday and Thursday, MCB room 216, 5-6.15 PM

INSTRUCTOR

Dr. Ayman Abdel-Hamid

Office: MCB 525

E-mail: hamid at cs dot vt dot edu

Course home page: http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs4254/

Office hours: TR 2-3 PM, or by appointment.

Office phone: 540-231-1927

Teaching Assistant

Likhita

Office:

Email: likhita7@cs.vt.edu

Office Hours: T 1-2 PM and W 10-12 AM in MCB 116

Syllabus

Project

Textbook source code

LECTURE LOG

Week	Date	Lecture	ToDo
1	1/17/2006	Course Introduction	Read Chapter 1 from the textbook
1	1/19/2006	Introduction (Part I)	Read Chapter 1 from the textbook
2	1/24/2006	Introduction (Part II)	Read Chapter 1 from the textbook
2	1/26/2006	OSI and TCP/IP Layers	Hw1 is assigned Due on Thursday, Feb. 2^nd 2006
3	1/31/2006	Internet Protocol Suite (updated)	Read sections 2.1-2.5 from textbook Read section A.2 from the textbook
3	2/2/2006	Internet Protocol Suite (cont.)	Hw2 is assigned Due on Thursday Feb. 9^th 2006
4	2/7/2006	Transmission Control Protocol	Read Chapter 2 from textbook
4	2/9/2006	Transmission Control Protocol (cont.)	Read Chapter 2 from textbook Hw3 is assigned Due on Thursday Feb. 16^th 2006
5	2/14/2006	User Datagram Protocol	Read Chapter 2 from textbook
5	2/16/2006	Sockets Programming Introduction	Read Ch1 and Ch3 from textbook
6	2/21/2006	Sockets Programming Introduction (cont.) Elementary TCP Sockets (4 slides/page) (1 slide/page)	Read Ch4 from textbook
6	2/23/2006	Elementary TCP Sockets (cont.)	Read Ch4 from textbook Hw4 is assigned Due by Midnight on Wednesday March 15^th, 2006
7	2/28/2006	TCP Client/Server Example	Read Ch5 from textbook Midterm is scheduled on this Thursday at class time The exam will cover all material up to and including 2/23/2006
7	3/2/2006	Midterm Exam Class time
8	3/7/2006	Spring Break
8	3/9/2006	Spring Break
9	3/14/2006	Elementary UDP Sockets	Read Ch8 from textbook
9	3/16/2006	Elementary UDP Sockets (cont.) Name and Address Conversions	Read Ch8 and Ch11 from textbook Hw5 is assigned Due by Midnight on Wednesday March 22^nd, 2006
10	3/21/2006	Name and Address Conversions (cont.) Multicasting (Part I)	Read Ch11 and Ch 21 from textbook
10	3/23/2006	Multicasting (Part I) (cont.) Multicasting Part II	Read Ch21 from textbook
11	3/28/2006	Multicasting Part II (cont.)	Read Ch21 from textbook
11	3/30/2006	Multicasting Part II (cont.)	Read Ch21 from textbook Hw6 is assigned Due by Midnight on Wednesday April 5^th, 2006
12	4/4/2006	Course Project Discussion	Course Project is assigned
12	4/6/2006	I/O Multiplexing	Read Ch6 and section 8.15
13	4/11/2006	I/O Multiplexing (cont.)	Read Ch6 and section 8.15
13	4/13/2006	Threads	Read Ch26 from textbook
14	4/18/2006	Client/Server Design Alternatives	Read Ch30 from textbook
14	4/20/2006	Client/Server Design Alternatives (cont.)	Read Ch30 from textbook
15	4/25/2006	Out-of-Band Data	Read Ch24 from textbook
15	4/27/2006	Socket Options	Read Ch7 from textbook Project Submission is due by Midnight May 1^st If you have not scheduled a project demo slot yet, please see the instructor at once
16	5/2/2006	Advanced UDP Sockets Review	Read Ch22 from textbook (sections 22.4, 22.5, and 22.7) Final Exam is on Saturday May 6^th at 7 PM in MCB 216
16	5/4/2006	No Classes. Reading Day
17	5/6/2006 Saturday	Final Exam 7 - 9 PM

GRADING

Homework and Programming Assignments	30%
Midterm Exam	20%
Comprehensive Final Exam (May 6^th 7-9 PM)	30%
Course Project	20%

HOMEWORK/ASSIGNMENTS

Assn #	Assigned	Due
1	1/26/2006	2/2/2006
2	2/2/2006	2/9/2006
3	2/9/2006	2/16/2006
4	2/23/2006	3/15/2006
5	3/16/2006	3/22/2006
6	3/30/2006	4/5/2006

Send email to Instructor: hamid at cs dot vt dot edu

Last update: May 1^st, 2006