Rough Plan of the Computer Networks course

Week 2a(6 oct)Services, traffic [J]P&D 1.all
Week 2b, 3, 4(6, 13, 20 oct)Data link and MAC protocols [G]P&D 3.all except 3.8
Week 5, 6(27 oct, 3 nov) Routing, ATM, Hardware switching [J]P&D 4.all except 4.4.4
Week 7(10 nov) Bridging, IP [G]P&D 5.1, 5.2
Week 8 (17 nov)TCP [J] P&D 6.1, 6.2
Week 9RWThe End to End ArgumentP&D p289, plus paper
Week 10(1 dec) Presentation [J] P&D 7.1
Week 11 (8 dec) Congestion [J] P&D 8.1, 8.2?, 8.3, 8.4, 8.6
Week 12 (15 dec)High speed [G and J] P&D 9 (most)
Week 16 (12 jan)Revision [J]

James Malcolm
November 1998