Course Information

• Overview
  This course is being taught as part of the ECI 2000. ECI is the Escuela de Ciencias Informaticas. The following is an overview of the course (in Spanish)

• Lecture Time/Place
• Time: Monday(23-Jul) through Friday(27-Jul), 19:00 - 22:00
• Location: Unknown
• Course WWW Page
  • http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~almeroth/classes/S01.ECI/

• Course Material
  • Important: All information for this course will either be given in class or available via this WWW page.

  • The references below are interesting reading only and are not required.
    • As a general reference, the book below is very good. It includes much of the material used in this course.
      • J. Kurose and K. Ross, "Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet", Addison-Wesley Pub Co, 1st edition, July 2000.

    • The following is a good history of the Internet:
      • K. Hafner and M. Lyon, "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet", Touchstone Books, Reprint Edition, January 1998.

    • Material included on this WWW page:
      • Powerpoint Presentation on the Evolution of the Internet

      • R. Govindan and A. Reddy, "An Analysis of Internet Inter-Domain Topology and Route Stability", IEEE Infocom 1997.

      • Assignment #1

      • W. Montgomery, "Techniques for Packet Voice Synchronization", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications, pg 1022-1027, December 1983.

      • Packetized Video--Options for Interaction Between the User, the Network and the Codec", The Computer Journal, pg 55-67, January 1993.

      • Assignment #2

      • K. Almeroth, "The Evolution of Multicast: From the MBone to Inter-Domain Multicast to Internet2 Deployment", IEEE Network Special Issue on Multicasting, January/February 2000.

      • "White Paper-QoS Protocols & Architectures", originally available from QoSforum.com.

      • D. Tynan, "Internet2: The Once and Future Net", originally available from http://www.technologyreview.com/web/tynan/tynan071001.asp.

      • Internet2 Maps
        

• Required Prerequisites
  • A fundamental understanding of network communication.

Instructor Information

Kevin Almeroth (almeroth@cs.ucsb.edu)
Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
WWW: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~almeroth