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Contents
• Computer Networking : Principles, Protocols and Practice, third edition
• Part 1: Principles
• Part 2: Protocols
• Part 3: Practice
• Appendices

• Preface

• Connecting two hosts

◦ The physical layer
◦ The datalink layer
▪ Framing
▪ Recovering from transmission errors
▪ Reliable data transfer on top of an imperfect link
▪ Go-back-n and selective repeat
• Building a network
◦ The datagram organization
▪ Computing forwarding tables
▪ Flat or hierarchical addresses
▪ Dealing with heterogeneous datalink layers
◦ Virtual circuit organization
◦ The control plane
▪ Distance vector routing
▪ Link state routing
• Applications
• The transport layer
◦ Transport layer services
▪ The connectionless service
▪ The connection-oriented service

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▪ The request-response service

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◦ The transport layer
▪ Connectionless transport
▪ Connection establishment
▪ Data transfer
▪ Connection release
• Naming and addressing
◦ Benefits of names
• Sharing resources
◦ Sharing bandwidth
◦ Network congestion
◦ Distributing the load across the network
◦ Medium Access Control algorithms
▪ Static allocation methods
▪ ALOHA
▪ Carrier Sense Multiple Access
▪ Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
▪ Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance
▪ Deterministic Medium Access Control algorithms
◦ Congestion control
▪ Congestion control with a window-based transport protocol
• The reference models
◦ The five layers reference model
◦ The Physical layer
◦ The Datalink layer
◦ The Network layer
◦ The Transport layer
◦ The Application layer
◦ Reference models
▪ The TCP/IP reference model
▪ The OSI reference model
• Network security
◦ Threats
◦ Cryptographic primitives
◦ Cryptographic protocols
◦ Key exchange

• The application layer

• The Domain Name System
• Electronic mail
◦ The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
◦ The Post Office Protocol
• The HyperText Transfer Protocol
• Making HTTP faster
• Remote Procedure Calls
◦ Encoding data
◦ Reaching the callee
• Remote login
◦ The secure shell (ssh)
• Transport Layer Security
◦ The TLS handshake
◦ The TLS record protocol
◦ Improving TLS
• Securing the Domain Name System
• Internet transport protocols
• The User Datagram Protocol

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• The User Datagram Protocol

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◦ TCP connection establishment

◦ TCP reliable data transfer
▪ Segment transmission strategies
◦ TCP windows
◦ TCP’s retransmission timeout
◦ Advanced retransmission strategies
◦ TCP connection release
• Congestion control
◦ Controlling congestion without losing data
◦ Modeling TCP congestion control
• The network layer
◦ IP version 6
▪ IPv6 addressing architecture
▪ IPv6 packet format
◦ ICMP version 6
◦ The IPv6 subnet
▪ Interactions between IPv6 and the datalink layer
• Routing in IP networks
• Intradomain routing
◦ RIP
◦ OSPF
• Interdomain routing
◦ The Border Gateway Protocol
▪ The BGP decision process
▪ BGP convergence
• Datalink layer technologies
◦ The Point-to-Point Protocol
◦ Ethernet
▪ Ethernet Switches
▪ The Spanning Tree Protocol (802.1d)
▪ Virtual LANs
◦ 802.11 wireless networks

• Exercises
• Reliable transfer
◦ Open questions
◦ Practice
◦ Discussion questions
• Using sockets for inter-process communication
◦ Sending data to a peer using a socket
◦ Receiving data from a peer using a socket
◦ connect: connecting a socket to a remote address
◦ Creating a new socket to communicate through a network
▪ Sending a message to a remote peer using its IPv6 address
◦ Endianness: exchanging integers between different computers
◦ Exercises
• Building a network
◦ Multiple-choice questions
◦ Open questions
◦ Discussion questions
• Serving applications
◦ Multiple choices questions
◦ Open questions
◦ Practice

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◦ Practice
Discussion questions
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• Sharing resources
◦ Medium Access Control
◦ Fairness and congestion control
◦ Discussion questions
• Application layer
◦ The DNS
• Internet email protocols
• The HyperText Transfer Protocol
• TLS and ssh
• Analyzing packet traces
• TCP basics
• A closer look at TCP
◦ Injecting segments in the Linux TCP stack
◦ Open questions
• IPv6 Networks
◦ Basic questions on IPv6 Networks
◦ Design questions
◦ Configuring IPv6 Networks
◦ IPv6 packets
• Inter-domain routing
◦ Exercises
• Exploring routing protocols
◦ Exploring OSPF
◦ Exploring RIP
◦ Exploring BGP
◦ Exercises
• Local Area Networks: The Spanning Tree Protocol and Virtual LANs
◦ Exercises
◦ Testing the Spanning Tree with IPMininet

• Glossary
• Bibliography

Indices and tables

• Index
• Search Page

© Copyright 2019 Olivier Bonaventure.

Last updated on Oct 18, 2023.

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