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Extension School Tips to Avoid Plagiarism (www.extension.harvard.edu/resources-
policies/resources/tips-avoid-plagiarism), where you'll find links to the Harvard Guide
to Using Sources and two, free, online 15-minute tutorials to test your
knowledge of academic citation policy. The tutorials are anonymous open-
learning tools.
CLASS SCHEDULE
Lecture #1, August 29, 2016
Topics: Network Models and Network Architectures, Protocol Design Issues,
Network Building Blocks: Transmission, Multiplexing and Switching
No lecture, Sept. 5, 2016 Labor Day Holiday, No lecture
Lecture #2, Sept. 12, 2016
Topics: Protocol Layering and Protocol Framework (SP3), Link Level Protocols,
IETF and the Internet Standards Process
Lecture #3, Sept. 19, 2016 Homework #1 due
Topics: LAN Protocols, LAN Design and Implementation, Ethernet Switching,
Wireless Networks, 802.11
Lecture #4, Sept. 26, 2016
Topics: Internet Protocol (IP) Design, Internet Addressing
Lecture #5, Oct. 4, 2016 Homework #2 due
Topics: Internetworking and Routing, VLANs
No lecture, Oct. 10, 2016 Columbus Day Holiday, No lecture
Lecture #6, Oct. 17, 2016
Topics: IPv6 Protocol Design, IPv6 Addressing
Lecture #7, Oct. 24, 2016
Topics: Transport Layer Protocol Design, TCP and UDP
Lecture #8, Oct. 31, 2016 Homework #3 due on Friday Nov. 4th
Topics: TCP Congestion Control, Connection Management,
Network Address Translation (NAT)
Lecture #9, Nov. 7, 2016
Topics: Application Layer Protocols
Domain Name System (DNS)
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Lecture #10, Nov. 14, 2016
Topics: Email Protocols (SMTP), Email Management and SPAM
Network Security (part 1)
Lecture #11, Nov. 21, 2016
Topics: Network Security (part 2)
Lecture #12, Nov. 28, 2016
Topics: IP Telephony and Internet Video,
Network Quality of Service (QoS)
Lecture #13, Dec. 5, 2016 Homework #4 due
Topics: Networking for the Internet of Things (IoT),
Lecture #14, Dec. 12, 2016 Homework #5 due
Topics: Network Architectures for Cloud Computing and SDN
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