Course Objectives
            Course Objectives
            Learn how the Internet works
                     – Foundational/conceptual knowledge
            Assume some basic familiarity
                     – Basic networking concepts
                     – Baseline idea of main Internet entities, IP, TCP
            Extend knowledge / applicability of knowledge
            Depth
                     – Learn more, examine, experiment with baseline knowledge
                     – Substantiate all answers (prior knowledge)
            Breadth
                     – Learn about more protocols
                     – Some idea of capabilities/limitations of the Internet
                     – Architectural issues – possible evolution
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            Scope
            Scope
            Protocol descriptions and socket programming 
                   only briefly as preliminaries / building blocks
            Focus on
                     – Investigation by doing
                     – RFC reading
                     – Paper reading
            Will not address some important and relevant 
                   topics in any detail
                     – Queuing models or other analytical results
                     – Simulation or other performance questions
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            Background
            Background
            You need to understand networking
                     – ECE/CSC570 or equivalent
                              Need to be conservative in estimating “equivalent”
            You need to be able to program
                     – Comfortable with C/C++
                     – Familiar with Unity / VCL
            You need to “learn-on-the-fly”
                     – Basic goal of graduate study
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            Instructional Mode
            Instructional Mode
             Self-guided, inquiry-driven, group-based
             No typical lectures except a few introductory / overarching
                    – Some archived video lectures available for “catch-up”
             Descriptive topics
                    – Question list will be provided – feel free to contribute
                    – Texts, cited papers, RFCs are automatic sources
                    – Other sources may be flagged for some topics
                    – Cite source in answer
                    – Slidepacks will be provided for most topics
             “Get-ahead” lecture periods: Q&A, discussion, investigation
                    – Sometimes I may have no answers – at least immediately
             Programming / lab topics
                    – In-class demos will be provided for baseline
                    – Q&A in some lecture periods
                    – Many will be group
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            Course Eval, Fall 2015
            Course Eval, Fall 2015
The Homeworks are good. The project was good. The recorded 
                                                                                    The instructor is really helpful and nice when answering 
video lectures were good. But since the professor assumed that 
                                                                                    questions. However, it would be better if the instructor can use 
the students should have a prerequisite of the recorded video 
                                                                                    shorter sentences when teaching, since one could lose 
lectures, logically speaking then i learnt nothing new in the course 
                                                                                    focus/context when the sentence is too long.
since the only thing useful and explained well were the video 
lectures but those i was supposed to know beforehand anyway. At 
               Great course which gives knowledge about internet and networks. The 
the end of the course, I neither know TCP, nor OSPF nor BGP 
properly. details of how the network works and depending on your project, know 
               more about the working of the network or the working of the components 
               of the network.                                                                 Loved the way teams were distributed..how assignments were 
                                                                                               provided at perfrct stage..overall very well planned course
      This course did teach me a lot, although not the things which 
                      I feel the groups for the project shouldn't be random and 
      was intended. I felt overwhelmed with the sheer volume of                                          professor himself may be technically strong, but he 
                      the students need to pick a group. The final assignment 
      topics(being explained in class or through assignments and                                         should make sure that EACH AND EVERY STUDENT 
                      could have been an individual assignment. In my humble 
      projects and other materials) but in the end some of the topics                                    in the class understands what he teaches!! And that's 
                      opinion, less content with a thorough explanation is more 
      do stick to me.                                                                                    inexcusable, because we pay $15k per semester and 
                      beneficial.                                                                        only few people benefiting from the class is not 
                                                                                                         acceptable. Other professors make sure that students 
                                                                                                         understand and absorb every bit of he teaches, but 
    1. Please give reading material for next class. Slides are not                                       this professor just doesn't care and seems to be 
    enough. Some chapters/papers to refer. 2. Give trick questions on                                    ruthless!Sorry to be saying this.
    weakly basis that challenge the fundamentals of networking. In 
    first 2 assignments I found lot of these questions but later the 
                                                                                    Fantastic course. Though the in class learning is not much, 
    assignments were less tricky. Tricky questions stimulate thinking 
                                                                                    the assignments and the projects are brilliant. They make you 
    and help strengthen the concepts. 3. Would love to see more 
                                                                                    a master at the subject.
    centmesh/Netlabs based projects than Geni based projects. I feel 
    project in real machines will let us more about networking than 
    Geni.
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