TCP/IP networking
Summary
In the lectures you will learn and understand the main ideas that underlie and the way communication networks are built and run. In the labs you will exercise practical configurations.
Content
-- The internet architecture.
-- Layer 2 networking; switching/bridging.
-- The Internet protocol versions 4 and 6.
-- The transport layer, TCP, UDP, sockets, QUIC.
-- Routing algorithms: Link state routing, OSPF, Distance Vector routing. Interdomain routing, BGP.
-- Congestion control principles. The fairness of TCP. Application to the Internet (TCP Reno, Cubic, DCTCP, BBR).
-- Tunnels and hybrid architectures.
-- A few things about internet security.
-- Application layer protocols.
Keywords
TCP/IP
Computer Networks
Learning Prerequisites
Required courses
A first programming course (Python)
Recommended courses
An undergraduate course on Computer Networks
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student must be able to:
- Run and configure networks
- Understand the main ideas that underlie the Internet
- Write simple communicating programs
- Use communication primitives for internet and industrial applications.
Transversal skills
- Access and evaluate appropriate sources of information.
- Continue to work through difficulties or initial failure to find optimal solutions.
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Online quizzes.
Labs on student's computer.
Expected student activities
Participate in lectures
Participate in online quizzes
Make lab assignments (in the rule, every other week)
Assessment methods
Theory grade = final exam
Practice grade = average of labs
Final grade = mean of theory grade (50%) and practice grade (50%).
The research exercice may add a bonus of at most 0.5 points in 1-6 scale to the practice grade.
Supervision
| Office hours | Yes |
| Assistants | Yes |
| Forum | Yes |
Resources
Bibliography
"Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (6th or later Edition)". James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross. 2012. Pearson.
"Computer Networking : Principles, Protocols and Practice". O. Bonaventure, open source textbook, http://inl.info.ucl.ac.be/CNP3
Ressources en bibliothèque
Notes/Handbook
Slides are on moodle
Websites
Moodle Link
In the programs
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: TCP/IP networking
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Labs: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: mandatory
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: TCP/IP networking
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Labs: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: mandatory
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: TCP/IP networking
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Labs: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: mandatory
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: TCP/IP networking
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Labs: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: mandatory
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: TCP/IP networking
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Labs: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: mandatory
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: TCP/IP networking
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Labs: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: mandatory
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: TCP/IP networking
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Labs: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: TCP/IP networking
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Labs: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: TCP/IP networking
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Labs: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: TCP/IP networking
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Labs: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: TCP/IP networking
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Labs: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional