MAT 201B: Media Networks and Services

MAT 201B -- Media Networks and Servicess
Fall 1999

Lecture Time/Place: Tuesday(MRL, 2053)/Thursday(Engr I, 2114); 10:00am to 12:00pm
Course WWW Page: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~almeroth/classes/201B/
Course Material
- There is no required textbook. Material will either be found online or handed out in class.
- Four very helpful books are:
  - Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 3rd Edition.
  - W. Richard Stevens, UNIX Network Programming, Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI, Volume 1, 2nd Edition.
  - Douglas E. Comer, Internetworking with TCP/IP, 3rd Edition.
  - J. Kurose and K. Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet. (http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~ross/book/Contents.htm)
Required Prerequisites: None -- See instructor if questions

Understand the basics of network communication.
Understand how the Internet is used to deliver audio/video including protocols and techniques.
Build small tools and prototype applications to ``put concepts into action''.
Sample some of the advanced research currently underway in the field.

Num	Date	Lecture Topic	Reading
01	Sep 30, Th	Background and Overview	Familiarize yourself with the available texts
02 03	Oct 05, Tu Oct 07, Th	OSI Stack Data Link (Ethernet)	Tanenbaum, Chapter 1 (1.1,1.4) Tanenbaum, Chapters 3,4 (4.3.1)
** 04	Oct 12, Tu Oct 14, Th	No Class Data Link (Ethernet)	Tanenbaum, Chapters 3,4 (4.3.1)
05 06	Oct 19, Tu Oct 21, Th	Sockets Medium Access Control (Ethernet)	Handouts (Stevens Chap 5 and 8) Tanenbaum, Chapter 4 (4.2)
07 08	Oct 26, Tu Oct 28, Th	Network Layer Overview Network (IP) (PA #1 DUE)	Tanenbaum, Chapter 5 Tanenbaum, Chapter 5 (5.5)
** 09	Nov 02, Tu Nov 04, Th	No Class Transport Layer Overview	None Tanenbaum, Chapter 6
** 10	Nov 09, Tu Nov 11, Th	No Class Transport (TCP/UDP)	None Tanenbaum, Chapter 6 (6.4) Kurose/Ross Online Book
11 12	Nov 16, Tu Nov 18, Th	DNS and the WWW Catch up Day(PA #2 DUE)	Kurose/Ross Online Book None
13 **	Nov 23, Tu Nov 25, Th	Jitter and Media Encodings No Class	Montgomery and Wakeman papers None
14 15	Nov 30, Tu Dec 02, Th	Scalability and WWW performance Multicast	Touch paper Semeria paper
16 ** 17	Dec 07, Tu Dec 07, Tu Dec 10, Fr	Reliability/Congestion Control EXAM HANDOUT Exam review	Obraczka and Li papers
**	Dec 13 Dec 15	EXAM DUE AT 5PM PA #3 DUE AT NOON

MAT 201B -- Media Networks and Servicess Fall 1999