Instructors

Instructor: Alberto Dainotti

• (Please put 6250 or 4251 in the email subject) Office Hours: Wednesdays at 3pm or by appointment on Zoom.  (Please send me an email if you want to meet at other times.)

Co-Instructors: Zachary Bischof , Thomas Holterbach

Teaching Assistants:

• Himani Mukne, Office Hours: Thursday, 12 PM - 1 PM, [email protected]
• Zhiyang Zhang, Office Hours: Friday 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM [email protected]
• Saurab Sirpurkar, Office Hours: Tuesday 2:30 PM- 3:30 PM [email protected]
• Ritvik Iyer, Office Hours: Tuesday 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, [email protected]

Course topics and schedule

Unit 0: Introductory topics + Internet design goals and challenges + Memory refresh on IP routing & forwarding

Introduction [1 lecture]

CAIDA’s ……

• Introductions (Instructor, TAs, students, …)

• Prerequisites

• Course subject

  • What’s the theme and what are the high-level questions
  • How would you visually represent the Internet?
  • What do you think are key challenges in designing/developing/deploying Internet protocols and infrastructure and in Internet operations?
  • Some representative numbers and events from the real world

• Course organization: units, material, assignments/tests and grading

• Other networking classes this and next semester

  6250.lesson00.pdf

The Internet Architecture / IP Routing and Forwarding Refresh [1 lecture]

• What’s in the news • Twitter, Amazon, NANOG, …
• The Internet • Challenges, original architecture design goals, layered protocol architecture
• IP Routing and forwarding
  • Basics
  • Static routing
  • Intra-domain routing / OSPF

Our Mini Internet [1/2 lecture]

Mini Internet environment

*https://gitlab.com/inetintel/mini-internet-wiki/-/wikis/home*