ECE435: Network Engineering

University of Maine ECE

Spring 2021

Instructor: Vincent Weaver
The class meeting time is Tuesday/Thursday at 9:30am-10:45am.
The meeting place is Barrows 125.
Lectures will also be recorded/streamed if you don't wish to attend in person.

The final exam is scheduled for: Tuesday 4 May 2021, 8am-10am


Office hours:

Syllabus

ece435_2021s.pdf

Course Listing


What We'll Do this Semester

Networking.

Class Schedule

TuesdayThursday
Week 1 26 January
Introduction to Networks / OSI Layers
Lecture 1 Notes
28 January
Socket Programming
Lecture 2 Notes
Week 2 2 February
No Class -- Snow
4 February
WWW, HTML, Web-Browser
Lecture 3 Notes
Week 3 9 Febuary
http protocol
Lecture 4 Notes
11 February
telnet/rsh/ssh, public-key encryption
Lecture 5 Notes
Week 4 16 February
E-mail
Lecture 6 Notes
18 February
DNS
Lecture 7 Notes
Week 5 23 February
Transport Layer/UDP
Lecture 8 Notes
25 February
TCP
Lecture 9 Notes
Week 6 2 March
More TCP
Lecture 10 Notes
4 March
The Network Layer
Lecture 11 Notes
Week 7 9 March
IPv4 Lecture 12 Notes
11 March
IPv4 header, ICMP, DHCP
Lecture 13 Notes
Week 8 16 March
Midterm
18 March
NAT, IPv6
Lecture 14 Notes
Week 9 23 March
"Reading Day" (no class)
25 March
Internal/External Routing, BGP
Lecture 15 Notes
Week 10 30 March
The Physical Layer -- Wired
Lecture 16 Notes
1 April
The Physical Layer -- Wireless
Lecture 17 Notes
Week 11 6 April
The Link Layer, Ethernet
Lecture 18 Notes
8 April
More Ethernet
Lecture 19 Notes
Week 12 13 April
Wireless Ethernet, Bluetooth
Lecture 20 Notes
15 April
"Reading Day" (no class)
Week 13 20 April
Bridging / VLAN
Lecture 21 Notes
22 April
Network Security
Lecture 22 Notes
Week 14 27 April
Project Presentations
29 April
Project Presentations

Homework Assignments


Final Project


Optional Useful Textbooks


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