Computer Networks (CS 212) Spring 2024

About This Course

• This is an introductory course on Computer Networks for second-year CS undergraduate students.

• The goal of this course is to build an understanding of how computer networks are structured,
  how they are designed, and how they function, using the Internet as a guiding example.

• Credits: 4 (3 hours per-week of lectures, 3-hours per-week of Labs/Assignments).

Lectures (Venue: LT1)

• Wednesdays 11am-12noon

• Thursdays 9am-10am

• Fridays 9am-10am

Labs (Venue: CC Lab)

• Tuesdays 3pm-6pm

People

• Instructor: Neha Karanjkar

• TAs: Tushar Lone, Lekshmi P

Textbook and Reference books:

• Course Textbook: Kurose and Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (7th edition)

• Reference Book: Tanenbaum and Wetherall, Computer Networks (5th edition)

Video Lectures

• A few recorded lectures from the Spring 2020 offering of this course are publicly available here: YouTube Playlist

Lab Exercises (Tentative)

• Lab 1: IP, Ping, Traceroute and Wireshark Exercise (pdf)

• Lab 2: Wireshark Exercise (pdf)

• Lab 3: Socket Programming Exercise (pdf)

• Lab 4: Principles of Reliable Data Transfer Link

• Lab 5: Sliding Window Protocols Link

Other Resources

• Powerpoint slides and interactive exercises for Kurose and Ross 6th ed. are available here.

• Computerphile is a great YouTube channel on all things related to computers. Here are some of the playlists and videos specific to Networking and Network Security

  • Computerphile Networking-related Playlist

  • Cryptography-related Playlist

  • Traceroute

  • TCP Congestion Control

  • Tunneling out of a Network!

  • Dijkstra's Shortest Path

  • Transport Layer Security