Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Monday, October 24, 2011

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Class 18-TCP Implementation Details

TCP: Sequence and Acknowledgement numbers, header fields, estimated RTT and timeout calculations, fast retransmit.

Monday, October 10, 2011

Friday, October 7, 2011

Class 16-Reliability, Pipelining

Reliability: NAK-free protocol, dealing with loss as well as errors. Utilization and pipelining.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Class 15-Reliable Transport

Reliable transport with perfect underlying channel, with ACKs/NAKs, Sequence Numbers.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Monday, September 26, 2011

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Class 10-Email Protocols

E-mail systems and protocols: SMTP, POP3, IMAP. HTTP front-ends to e-mail systems. Message formats and base64 encoding.

Monday, September 19, 2011

Class 9-HTTP Wrap Up, E-Mail Intro

HTTP cookies, caching, proxy servers. E-Mail system components and processing overview.

Friday, September 16, 2011

Class 8-HTTP Lab Part 2

HTTP Conditional GET, retrieving large objects, embedded objects, authentication.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Class 7-HTTP Lab Part 1

Introduction to WireShark, packet captures, filters. Simple HTTP request/response analysis.

Monday, September 12, 2011

Friday, September 9, 2011

Class 5-Application Layer Concepts

Introduction to the Application Layer. Client-server and peer-to-peer architectures. Transport layer services.

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Class 4-Circuit Switching, Packet Switching, Delay

Circuit Switching vs. Packet Switching. Frequency Division Multiplexing and Time Division Multiplexing. Delay components and calculations.

Friday, September 2, 2011

Class 3-Transport, Physical Media

Transport layer protocols (TCP & UDP), Guided/Unguided Media, Digression on electromagnetic interference, Circuit switching.

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Class 2-Internet History, Overview

Brief history of the Internet. What makes up the Internet? What is a protocol? We look at the composition of the Internet from a "nuts & bolts" view and a service view.

Monday, August 29, 2011

Class 1-Syllabus Review, Course Overview

An introduction to the course and overview of how the networking area of computing is organized. The last 10 minutes or so of the podcast got cut off--not sure why at this point...will try to figure it out within the next couple of classes, though.

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Class 0-Welcome

This is a placeholder episode for the lecture podcasts for Dr. Dan McKee's Fall 2011 Networking I class at Mansfield University.