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Computer Networks, Spring 2026

Course Calendar - Lectures
Lecture Topics Lecture Videos & Reference Date
1 Introduction 1. Introduction

PD 1.1-1.2; TW 1.1-1.3
6/1
2 Scalability, packet and circuit switching 2. Scalability, circuit and packet switching
PD 1.1-1.2; TW 1.4
8/1
3 Network architecture, C Socket API 3. Layered network architecture
PD 1.3-1.4; TW 6.1
13/1
4 Physical media 4. Physical media, signals
PD 2.1; TW 2.1-2.3
15/1
5 Encoding, modulation, and multiplexing 5. Encoding and modulation, 6. Multiplexing
PD 2.2; TW 2.4
20/1
6 Performance: metrics, limits 7. Performance, limits
PD 1.5; TW 6.7.1-6.7.2
22/1
7 Link layer, framing 8. Framing
PD 2.3; TW 3.1
27/1
8 Error detection 9. Error detection
PD 2.4; TW 3.2
29/1
9 Reliable transmission: stop and wait,sliding window, ARQ 10. Reliable transmission
PD 2.5; TW 3.4
3/2, 5/2
10 MAC sublayer, contention-free multiple access, randomized medium access 11. Medium access control
PD 2.7; TW 4.1-4.2
10/2, 12/2
11 Wi-Fi, Bluetooth/ZigBee (brief introduction) 12. IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, Zigbee
PD 2.7; TW 2.6, 2.8
17/2
12 Ethernet 13. Ethernet
PD 2.6; TW 4.3
19/2
Midterm exams 21/2 - 1/3
13 Switching, virtual circuit switching 14. Switching
PD 3.1; TW 5.1.2-5.1.3
10/3
14 Learning switches, Spanning Tree Protocol 15. Learning bridges, STP, VLAN
PD 3.1; PD 4.7
12/3
15 IPv4, addressing, subnetting 16. IPv4, fragmentation, subnetting
PD 3.2.1-3.2.5; TW 5.1, 5.5, 5.7
17/3
16 CIDR, IPv6 17. CIDR, IPv6, IP tunneling
PD 4.1.3; TW 5.7
19/3
17 IP tunneling, NAT, ICMP PD 3.2.6-3.2.9; TW 5.6.4 24/3
18 Routing: distance vector, link state 18. Routing
PD 3.3; TW 5.2
31/3, 2/4
19 Router design PD 3.4 7/4
20 Interdomain routing, BGP, iBGP 19. Interdomain routing, BGP
PD 4.1; TW 5.7
9/4
21 Transport layer, UDP, TCP essentials 20. UDP, TCP
PD 5.1, 5.2; TW 6.1, 6.4, 6.5
14/4
22 TCP Sliding window, flow control 21. TCP Sliding window, flow control
PD 5.2; TW 6.5
16/4
23 QUIC and HTTP/3 RFC 9000; TW Ch. 6 21/4
24 SDN and OpenFlow Introduction PD (Online ebook) 23/4
25 Network Security: TLS, Firewalls TW Ch. 8 28/4
Quiz 2 27/4
Problem Sets
References