Lecture materials Note that the remainder of this web page has not yet changed since the 2005 instance of this course. However, the 2006 instance will be very similar, except the project will be replaced by an assignment.

Course description

Principles of network protocol design, including end-to-end arguments, scalability, robustness, and protocol implementation. Current issues in networking, in particular the performance of transport protocols such as the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) over wireless networks. Internal operation of switches and routers, including switching fabrics, packet classification, scheduling and queue management.

Lecturer in charge

Tim Moors

Preferred contact is during consultation time (the 1st half hour after lectures), otherwise try email.
Email: tele4363admin AT ee.unsw.edu.au with "TELE4363" in the subject line

Text

S. Keshav: An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking: ATM Networks, the Internet, and the Telephone Network, Addison-Wesley, 1997

• It is available through the bookshop.
• There is a list of errata for the text.
• How it corresponds to this course:

  Course section	Chapters of Keshav
  Protocol design	Chapters 5 (Layering), 6 (System Design), 16 (Protocol Implementation) (Chapters 1-4 provide some background)
  Transport protocols	Chapter 13 (Flow control) (Chapter 12 provides some background on error control)
  Switches and routers	Chapters 8 and 9

• It is recommended, not prescribed. You should be able to pass the course without reading this text (although you would have to read material listed on the Recommended Reading List).

Activities

• Lectures - use the username and password from the Course Outline.
• Tutorials
• Project
• Assignment
• Exam
• Bonus marks

TELE 4363 in past years