CSC 557  Schedule of Lectures -- Fall 2006

This schedule is subject to change, but all changes will be reflected below.

All assignments are due at 11:30PM (eastern time) on the post due date.

The papers in the reading assignment are referred by their first authors and you can find the link to the papers from the class home page.

* Video Lectures Web-page Link

Date	Lecture Topic	Reading	Assignment	Optional Reading
Week 1
24 Aug	Course overview; introduction	Syllabus Lecture slides
Week 2
29 Aug	Audio compression	Pan Lecture slides (PPT)
31 Aug	Audio compression continued	Human Speech Production Lecture slides (PPT)	Program HW1 (socket literacy) assignment
Week 3
5 Sept	Audio Compression continued, Video compression	Lecture Slide Wallace Gall Marshall
7 Sept	Video compression continued		Program 1 Due Program HW2 assignment
Week 4
12 Sept	Networking Basic	Lecture Note
14 Sept	Multicast	S&M 1, 2 Microsoft Kumar Lecture Note
Week 5
19 Sept	Multicast	S&M 1, 2 Microsoft
21 Sept	Delay Jitter	Stone & Jeffay Lecture Note
Week 6
26 Sept	Audio/Video Recovery	Perkins, Rhee Lecture Note	Program HW2 Due Program HW3 assignment	HW3 Q&A (2004)
28 Sept	Audio/Video Recovery Multicast  Recovery	Lecture Note Floyd, Nonnenmarcher, Paul, Rhee on LMR  (layered  multicast recovery) Lecture Note
Week 7
3 Oct	RTP	Lecture Note
5 Oct	RTP			Midterm 2004
Week 8
10 Oct	(No class)
12 Oct	Fall Break(no class)		Program HW3 Due Program HW4 Assigment	HW4 Q&A (2004) HW2 solutions C, linux - dwgoehri java, Win - rfeng
Week 9
17 Oct	Midterm exam in class (10 out of 25%)    Midterm - Solution
19 Oct	SIP	Lecture Note
Week 10
24 Oct	SIP		Paper Presentation Groups and Chosen Paper List Due
26 Oct	Congestion Control	RFC 2581
Week 11
31 Oct	Congestion Control continued	Lecture Note Mahdavi,Floyd,Rhee, Widmer
2 Nov	Congestion Control continued
Week 12
7 Nov	RSVP	RSVP paper Lecture Note	Program HW4 Due Program HW5 Assigment	HW5 Q&A (2004)
9 Nov	RSVP
Week 13
14 Nov	Student Presentations Mohan Iyer, Kanishka Joshi	Revisiting IP Multicast (SIGCOMM 2006)	Review  Form
16 Nov	Student Presentations Prashant Wason, Prasun Ratn	Performance of VoIP in a 802.11 Wireless Mesh Network (Infocom 2006)
Week 14
21 Nov	Student Presentations Vijay Patel	A Compound TCP Approach for High-speed and Long Distance Networks
23 Nov	Thanksgiving (no class)
Week 15
28 Nov	Student Presentations Chinmay Patel, Thileepan Subramanian	Designing DCCP :Congestion Control without reliability (SIGCOMM 2006)	Program HW5 Due
30 Nov	Student presentations Hwang JeeHyun, David Schlorff	Practical synchronization techniques for multi-channel MAC (MobiCom 2006)
Week 16
5 Dec	Student presentations Dan Goehring, Tamer El Calamawy	Quantifying Skype User Satisfaction (SIGCOMM 2006)
7 Dec
Final Exam