Advanced Computer

Networks
EE/CS 6713
Dr. Amir Qayyum
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Instructors Profile
Ph.D. Mobile Wireless Net., Univ. of Paris-Sud, France
Elect. Engg.,U.E.T. Lahore
M.S. Comp. Engg., E.S.I.M., France
D.E.A. Parallel Comp. Arch., Univ. of Paris-Sud, France
MANET: Participant of working group of IETF since 1997
Co-author of an RFC on routing protocol for MANETs
INRIA, France: Worked as research fellow
On Praxitele, PRIMA and IPANEMA projects
Enabling Technologies: Network protocol stack develop.
Implementation of RTP/TCP/IP stack for RISC based packet processor
CARE Pvt Ltd: Design/dev. of long-range, secure MANETs
CASE: Chairman Computer Engineering Dept.
M A Jinnah University, Islamabad
Faculty member and Project Director of two ICT R&D Fund projects
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Acknowledgement

Slides are based in part on materials by L.
Peterson, S. Lumeta and others
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Course Significance and Rationale
Networks and telecommunication is getting more
and more importance
Future telecommunication will be more oriented
toward networks rather than communication
Widespread Internet, diffused in our daily life is a
ground reality; its beneficial to understand it
Its fun to play with protocols (software) and able
to design exciting new type of networks
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Foundation Course in Network Stream
This course is a foundation course for Networks
as the area of specialization
It is a pre-requisite course for advanced level
courses in networking
Network Security
Mobile and Wireless Networks
Multimedia Services over IP Networks
Performance Analysis of Communication Networks
Network and System Programming
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Prerequisites
Required:
An undergrad course on computer networks
Good knowledge of C language
Recommended:
C Programming experience on Linux
Understanding of computer architecture
Basic operating system concepts
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Course Staff
Instructor:
Dr. Amir Qayyum
Tel: 051 111 878787
Email: amir_qayyum@yahoo.com
Teaching assistant:
Mr Ehsan Elahi
Tel: 0333 6702101
Email: ehsan.zahoor@yahoo.com
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General Information
Discussion / mailing list
computernet@yahoogroups.com (students only)
Discussions, queries, announcements, , everything!

Web page to join the group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/computernet/
Click on Join this group
You must provide name & roll no in your request
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Course Schedule
Lectures
Tuesday & Thursday: 7:158:45 p.m.
Assignments
3 assigns today! Then 1 assign every 2 weeks
Quizzes / Project
1
st
quiz before midterm, 2
nd
before final exam
Midterm exam
Tentative: 20
th
26
th
October, 2008
Final exam
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Assessment and Grading
Assignments 32%
8 (or more) assignments will be given
Research paper, portfolio and product idea are also counted
as individual assignment
Quizzes / Project 13%
If not given, marks will be adjusted elsewhere
Midterm exam 25%
Final exam 30%
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Grading Policy
Relative marking: grades are given according to
the class standing of a student
Grading will follow the bell shaped curve, as
much as possible
Average marks of the class will be approx centered
around grade B
Approx 10% of the top students will get grade A
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Assignments
Its your responsibility to regularly check the
course yahoogroup for important notifications
Assignments will usually contain three parts:
Questions on course topics
Questions on research papers
Programming
Submission date given with each assign
Late assignment is not accepted
Plagiarism will not be tolerated
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Sessions on Linux Programming
A tutorial session with be conducted by the TA
For those students who are not experienced with
programming on Linux
The session should be attended by all
How to program, compile, debug and run your
code on Linux will be explained
Fedora Core 7 or 8 will be used for demonstration
You can use any Linux distribution at your own
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Academic Honesty
Your work in this class must be your own
For the first infraction, all involved students will
receive 0 marks
If they are found to have collaborated excessively or to
have cheated
e.g. by copying or sharing answers during an
assignment, project or examination
Further infractions will result in failure in the
course
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Course Material
Reference books
Many textbooks on networking may be consulted
Lot of research papers!
Many will be recommended and given in assign
RFCs and Internet drafts
Related to TCP/IP suite and other protocols
Web resources
Tutorials, white papers, reports, etc.
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Text Book
Larry L. Peterson and Bruce S. Davies,
Computer Networks: A Systems Approach
Fourth Edition [2007], Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers, California, USA

W. Richard Stevens, UNIX Network
Programming, Volume 1, (Networking
APIs: Sockets and XTI)
Second Edition, Prentice Hall
Recommended ONLY for programming part
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Objectives: Principles and Concepts
At the end of this course, you should be able to:
identify the problems that arise in networked
communication
explain advantages/disadvantages of existing solutions
to these problems in different networking scenarios
evaluate novel approaches to these problems
understand the components of Internet protocol suite
understand the implications of a given solution for
performance in various networking environments
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Objectives: Programming
At the end of this course, you should be able to:
identify and describe the purpose of each component
of the TCP/IP protocol suite
develop client-server applications using TCP/IP
understand the impact of trends in network hardware
on network software issues
understand over 1000 useful (or useless) VUAs
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Course Contents
Overview
Introduction to network programming
Direct link networks
Packet switching
Internetworking
End-to-end protocols
Congestion control and resource allocation
End-to-end data
Network Security
Applications
Performance analysis and queuing theory (?)
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Expectations
What do you want (or expect) to learn from

this course ?
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Expectations
This course IS about
Network principles and concepts
General purpose computer networks
Internet perspective
Major components of the Internet protocol suite
Network software
Designing and building a system
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Expectations
This course IS NOT about
Survey of existing protocol standards
Specialized networks (e.g. CATV, telephone)
OSI perspective
Network hardware
Data transmission on physical layer
Queuing theory (we do survey, if time permits)
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Expectations
We will learn

why

networks are like they are
Any Question ?