Internet Programming and Protocols
    CS594      Fall '05

Administrative (section 011) UTK Computer Science

Where: C206 Claxton      When: Tu/Th 9:40-10:55

Instructor: Tom Dunigan

Office hours: Claxton 222 (by appointment)

Teaching assistant: Kent Galbraith galbrait@cs.utk.edu

Text: Hassan and Jain High Performance TCP/IP Networking: Concepts, Issues, and Solutions

Objective

Writing Internet software (TCP and UDP)

understanding the Internet protocols (TCP and UDP)

measuring and simulating network performance

optimizing TCP performance

Course work

Lectures, readings, exercises in C (BSD socket library) and ns-2 simulations, midterm, and final exam.

Prerequisites

Familiarity with UNIX and C, BSD socket lib, CS 360. class tattoo optional

Syllabus

• Introduction to networks
• BSD socket programming
• Internet protocols (IP, ICMP, UDP)
• TCP protocol
• ns-2 network simulation
• TCP congestion control (Tahoe, Reno, Vegas, SACK, FAST, HSTCP, BI-TCP, Westwood, H-TCP, ...)
• TCP implementations (Linux/BSD), zero-copy, off-load engines
• TCP performance, monitoring, and tuning (iperf, tcpdump, tcptrace, ethereal)
• analytical models of TCP performance
• asymmetric TCP, wireless TCP, indirect TCP, inter-galactic TCP
• parallel TCP streams, rate-based, AQM/ECN, XCP
• using TCP/IP in dinner conversation