240-574 Special Topics Information Network Engineering I (Internet and Its Protocols)

The Internet and Its Protocols
Computer Engineering: 240-574

Lecture 1:

Introduction to the Subject

Teaching methods, etc.

Assessment

Books

ISO Reference Model

Lecture 2:

Addresses
Link sharing
Overview of the Internet Protocols
Link Layer
Example Link Layers
Ethernet
Repeaters & Bridges
Spanning Tree

Lecture 3:

Internet Origins
Addressing
Address Classes
Subnets
Subnet Masks
ICMP
ICMP error messages
ICMP Information messages

Lectures 4 & 5:

IP Fragmentation and Reassembly
Fragmentation method
Fragmenting Fragments
Reassembly queue
Merging fragments
TTL use in reassembly
Path MTU Discovery

Lectures 6 & 7:

ARP
IPv6 introduction
Comparison to IPv4
IPv6 Address Types
Autoconfiguration

Lecture 8:

Router Advertisements
Neighbour Discovery
Neighbour Unreachability Detection

Lecture 9:

Packet Forwarding
Transport Protocols
Transport Addressing
UDP
(TFTP - moved to lecture 10, to come)

Lecture 10:

UDP Applications
TFTP
Transmission COntrol Protocol (TCP)
TCP Header
TCP Sequence numbers
TCP Window
TCP Acknowledgments
Recovery from lost packets
PUSH & Urgent data

Lecture 11:

TCP Connections
State diagram
SYN & FIN
Sequence numbers and TCP SYN
COnnection open & close
Graceful termination

Lecture 12:

TCP Reset
Examples of TCP packets
Packet Loss & Network Congestion
Avoiding COngestion
Congestion & TCP
Packet Bursts, ACK timing

Lecture 13:

TCP ACK Timing, Slow Start
TCP Options
Maximum Segment Size (MSS)
Window Size Limitation

Lecture 14:

TCP Options
Maximum Segment Size (MSS)
Window Size Limitation
Window Scaling
Round Trip Time (RTT) Estimation
Timestamp Option
TCP or UDP ?
Minimal TCP
Maximum Transaction Rate

Lecture 15:

TCP Issues
Recognising old SYN
CC Option: T/TCP
Shortening Time Wait
T/TCP Packet exchange

Lecture 16:

T/TCP Packet exchange
T/TCP transactions
3 way handshake options
Lost State, CCnew
Large Requests
Other TCP Issues
SCTP

Lecture 17:

Names Addresses & Routes
Domain Name System
DNS Protocols
DNS Database & RRSets
DNS Name tree
Domains, Zones, Servers
DNS Queries
Resource Record (RR) format
Queries, Replies & Examples

Lecture 18:

DNS Examples
Query Types
Responses
DNS Limits
Truncated Replies, TCP retry
Name Compression

Lecture 19:

DNS Zone Transfer
Serial Numbers
The rest of the SOA RR
Incremental Zone Transfer
DNS NOTIFY
DNS Dynamic Updates

Lecture 20:

Mapping addresses to names
Extending the DNS
Well known names
Well known port
Service Location Protocol
Service Definitions
Queries
Scaling & Directory Agents
Communication systems

Lecture 21:

TELNET
Network Virtual Terminal (NVT)
Telnet Option Negotiation
Telnet Synch & Data Mark
SMTP (introduction)

Lecture 22:

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Commands and Responses
Message Format
Enhancing SMTP
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
FTP Model - 3 way transfers
FTP data connection modes
HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Sending IP with no source address
... and getting reply back again
DHCP Relay Agents
DHCP Protocol

Lecture 23:

Routing
Distance Vector Protocols
Bellman-Ford Algorithm
Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
Split Horizon
Counting to Infinity
Link State Protocols
Shortest Path First Algorithm
Distribuiting Link State Information - Flooding
Shared Links and Link State
Designated Routers

Lecture 24:

Open SPF Protocol (OSPF)
OSPF Areas
Area Routing
External Routes
Interior vs Exterior Routing protocols
EGP
BGP
Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR)
Adapting Routing
Multicast
Multicast on a LAN
Multicast Address Selection
Joining a Multicast Group
IP Multicast
Joining an IP Multicast Group

Lecture 25:

Router Join of Multicast Group
Internet Group Membership Protocol (IGMP)
Multicast Routing
Reverse Path Forwarding
Flood & Prune
Core Based Trees
Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)
PIM - Dense Mode
PIM - Sparse Mode
Summary of uses of IP addresses
Mobile IP
Home Agents
Care Of Address
Mobile Node Binding

Lecture 26:

Course Review