Jean Walrand

Internet Topology

EE122: Introduction to Communication Networks

For spring 2009, EE122 will be co-taught by Dr. Shyam Parekh and Prof. Walrand.  This will be a new version of the course. The main objective is to focus on the key ideas in networking and avoid obscuring them with many variations of protocols and terminology.

 

The topics will be as follows:

 

1. The Internet

- How it works

2. Basic Principles

- Layers, end-to-end, scalability

3. Ethernet

- How it works

4. Routing   

- Inter and Intra-domain routing; wireless networks.

5. Congestion control

- TCP.

6. HTTP and DNS

7. Inside a Router

8. Security

9. Models

10. Selected Topics