This is the Syllabus of the course NJIT CIS 656-101, Fall 2005.
Instructor: Teunis J. Ott
Saturday 9:15 - 12:10, in Kupf 211.

Much more information about this course can be found on Dr Ott's website, 
web.njit.edu/~ott  , of course in particular in  web.njit.edu/~ott/CIS656  
and in  web.njit.edu/~ott/CIS656/CIS656.F.05  .
You can go there by copying any of these three URLs into your browser.

The prerequisite for this course is graduate standing in computer science.
In particular, knowledge of a higher level language (C++, Java, or C).
Students must be able to do the programming required for the project.

For homework, grading, more detailed outline, project, additional
information, see the webpages. Make sure to read the ``General
Remarks'' page, and the pages it points at.

Students will adhere to the NJIT honor code. Violations will be reported 
to the Dean of Students.

Weekly schedule:

09/03/2005 week 1 
OSI model, introduction to ethernet,
Physical addresses (ethernet) and logical addresses (IP),
IP packets and their headers.

09/10/2005 week 2
Addresses of Interfaces,
the IANA database, 
ARP, RARP,
ping, arp, ifconfig, netstat,
Supernetting, Subnetting, CIDR,
start of routing and forwarding.

09/17/2005 week 3
Review of ARP, RARP,
Forwarding and Forwarding Tables,
Delays in Networks, Use of ping,
IP fragmentation.

09/24/2005 week  4
The IP Protocol,
Review of IP header,
IP Options,
start of ICMP.

10/01/2005 week  5 Midterm I
ICMP, IGMP.

10/08/2005 week  6
Finish IGMP,
UDP,
the Client-Server model, with UDP as example.

10/15/2005 week  7 Miniproject due (see website)
VoIP (Voice over IP),
more on delays in the Internet,
RTP (Real Time Protocol),
Traceroute.
Repeaters, Hubs, Bridges, Switches, and Routers.

10/22/2005 week  8
The TCP Protocol,
the TCP header, 
flow control and overload control, 

10/29/2005 week  9
The TCP Protocol,
TCP Options
Output of TCPdump.
Explicit Congestion Notification

11/05/2005 week 10 Midterm II
The TCP Protocol,
Performance of TCP,
Start with SCTP
(Stream Control Transmission Protocol).

11/12/2005 week 11 Maxiproject due (see website)
Finish SCTP,
Start with Routing,
difference between Routing and Forwarding,
RIP, OSPF.

11/19/2005 week 12
BGP,
introduction to Multicast Routing,
Multicast trees,
the DNS (Domain Name System) system. 

11/26/2005: no class

12/03/2005 week 13
BOOTP and DHCP
Telnet and FTP

12/10/2005 week 14
IPv6 and miscellaneous topics.

12/17/2005         Final Exam.