CSCE515 Computer Network Programming

CSCE515: Computer Network Programming Fall 2008

MW 2:30PM- 3:45PM, SWGN 2A21

Instructor: Dr. Wenyuan Xu (wyxu cse.sc.edu)

Office Hours: MW 4:00am-5:00pm or by appointment

Room: SWGN 3A54

Office Hours: MW 4:00am-5:00pm or by appointment

Course mailing list: CSCE515-001 lists.cse.sc.edu

Announcement:

--Sept. 16: Sample code for project 1 is available online now.

Text book:

-Unix Network Programming, The Sockets Networking API, Volumes 1, by W Richard Stevens, Bill Fenner, Andrew M. Rudoff, published by Addison-Wesley (UNP).

Optional:

-TCP/IP Illustrated Volumes 1, by W. Richard Stevens, published by Addison-Wesley, 1994 (TI).

-Java Network Programming , by Merlin Hughes, Michael Shoffner, Derek Hamner, Maria Winslow, Conrad Hughes, published Manning Publications.

**indicates must read; *indicates recommended reading; others are supplementary reading

Date	Lecture Material	Reading & References	Assignments
08/25	Syllabus (pdf) Lecture 1	TI Ch. 1 ** How NOT to go about a programming assignment *	Who assigns homework on day one...
08/27	OSI Reference Model Link layer	TI 2.1, 2.2, 2.7, 2.8 **	Not yet
09/01	No class
09/03	Ethernet TCP/IP	IEEE 802.3 Overview IEEE 802.3 Standard TI 3,4,5,6 ** TCP/IP FAQ	Still Safe... But soon...
09/08	TCP/IP	TI 3,4,5,6, 17 ** TCP/IP FAQ
09/10	Sockets Programming API	UNP1, 3** Socket Programming FAQ	P1 Undergraduate Graduate Sample Code
09/15	TCP Details	UNP 2.4, 2.6, 2.7 ** Makefile tutorial
09/17	TCP Sockets Programming	UNP 3.9, 4.3-4.9 **
09/22	RLOGIN, TELNET, FTP Protocol	TIV 26, 27 ** RFC 854 TELENT RFC 959 FTP
09/24	Tinyos		Homework 1 Tinyos
09/29	No class Do your homework!
10/1	UDP Sockets Programming	UNP 8**
10/6	TiynOS Comm Discussion TFTP - Trivial File Transfer Protocol	TIV 15 *** RFC 1350 TFTP*
10/8	I/O Multiplexing and select()	UNP 5.12, 6.3-6.9**	P2 Undergraduate Graduate Sample Code
10/13	Threads Programming	UNP 5.8-5.10, 26.1-26.4, 26.7, 26.8 **
10/15	IP Routing,	TI Ch 3 *; Variable Length Subnet Masking On the Assignment of Subnet Numbers *
10/20	CIDR	RFC517
10/25	ICMP	TI Ch 7,8 **

10/27	Routing Principles,	TI Ch 9*
10/29	DNS	TI Ch 14** RFC 1034 RFC 1035
11/03	Mid-term
11/05	Mid-term & project review
11/10	HTTP, Web Client/Server Example		HTTP 1.1 HTTP 1.0 PJ3 Undergraduate Graduate
11/12	Advanced Sockets programming	UNP Ch 7.1-7.6, 11.3, 11.4, 11.6, 11.17 **	Sample code.
11/17	Daemons and inetd	UNP 24, 13 ****
11/19	Email Protocols	TIV Ch28.2, 28.4 ** SMTP POP3
11/24	Java Socket, ServerSocket, Multicasting, MulticastSocket		PROJECT 4 Package java.net docs smtpClient.java TCPEchoServer.java UDPEchoServer.java
12/01	Java RMI (remote method invocation)	RMI FAQ (Sun)	RemoteMathImpl
12/03	Security (buffer overflow) Reviews	Writing buffer overflow exploits - a tutorial for beginners Intel x86 Function-call Conventions - Assembly View	sample code
December 10 - 2:00 p.m.	Final exam