COMP 431 -- Internet Services & Protocols Spring 2008 MW 9:30-10:45, SN115 Jasleen Kaur Office hours: MW 10:45-11:45 am; (in SN 316) Email: jasleen at cs.unc.edu TA: Zhimin Ren Office hours: Tu 1:00 - 3:00 pm, Th 1:00 - 2:00 pm; (in SN 045) Email: zren at cs.unc.edu Class Mailing List: comp431 at cs.unc.edu

Copies of Class Handouts

• Course outline & syllabus -- PLEASE READ (1/9)
• Programming and documentation guidelines (1/9)

Copies of Homework Assignments

• Homework 1 -- Java Warmup -- Email Parsing (1/9) (Due 1/16)
• Homework 2 -- Basic Mail Relay Server (1/16) (Due 1/23)
• Homework 3 -- Ethereal/Wireshark Introduction (1/23) (Due 1/28)
  • Laboratory Assignment 1
• Homework 4 -- Understanding delay and loss on the Internet (1/28) (Due 2/6)
• Homework 5 -- Chapter 1 written problems (2/6) (Due 2/13)
• Homework 6 -- Ethereal for HTTP and DNS (2/13) (Due 2/20) (Extended to 2/22)
  • Laboratory Assignment 2A
  • Laboratory Assignment 2B
• Homework 7 -- Mail Client/Server -- Socket Programming (2/20) (Due 3/17) (Extended to 3/19)
• Homework 8 -- Chapters 2 & 3 written problems (2/25) (Due 3/3)
• Homework 9 -- SMTP Client/Server -- Putting it All Together (3/19) (Due 3/26)
• Homework 10 -- Ethereal for TCP (3/26) (Due 4/2)
  • Laboratory Assignment 3
• Homework 11 -- Chapter 3 written problems (4/2) (Due 4/14)
• Homework 12 -- Chapter 4 written problems (4/14) (Due 4/23)

Copies of Lecture Notes

Note: The PowerPoint slides are based on the ones created by Jim Kurose and Keith Ross, the authors of the textbook used in the course and they copyright the material. A number of revisions and extensions have been made to adapt them for use in this course.

• Administrivia (1/9).
• Part 1 -- A Whirlwind Introduction to the Internet
  • Slide-set 1 and Unix tutorial slides (1/14)
  • Slide-set 2 (1/28)
• Part 2 -- Application-Layer Protocols
  • Slide-set 3 -- Client/Server Computing and Socket Programming (2/4)
  • Slide-set 4 -- The Web and HTTP (2/6)
    • RFC1945 -- HTTP/1.0
    • RFC2616 -- HTTP/1.1
  • Slide-set 5 -- HTTP Persistence & Web Caching (2/6)
  • Slide-set 6 -- SMTP & POP (2/11)
  • Slide-set 7 -- The Domain Name System (2/13)
• Part 3 -- Transport Layer Services and Protocols
  • Slide-set 8 -- Multiplexing/Demultiplexing & UDP (2/18)
  • Slide-set 9 -- Reliable Data Transport (2/20)
  • Slide-set 10 -- Pipelining (2/27)
  • Slide-set 11 -- TCP Intro & Flow Control (3/3)
  • Slidet-set 12 -- TCP Congestion Control (3/19)
  • Slide-set 13 -- TCP Performance (3/26)
• Part 4 -- Network Layer Services and Protocols
  • Slide-set 14 -- Intro & Link State Algorithms (4/2)
  • Slide-set 15 -- Distance Vector Routing & Hierarchical Routing (4/7)
  • Slide-set 16 -- The Internet Protocol IP (4/9)
  • Slide-set 17 -- Routing on the Internet (4/16)
  • Slide-set 18 -- Link-Layer Routing (4/23)

On-Line Java References

• The Sun Java tutorial.
• The Sun Java API specification.
• Threads and synchronization tutorial.
• Java language specification.