Computer Networks and Network Security, Fall 2025: Schedule

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Notes

All slides from this class can be copied and reused without any need for explicit permissions. Note that some slides are based on other people's slides (e.g., some are from the slides accompanied by the textbook); so please resolve copyright issues on your own.
Topics for future classes are tentative.

Lecture	Date	Topic	Lecture Topic	Textbook Reading	Additional Reading	Lab Assignment
1	Tuesday Sept. 2	Introduction	Course overview; an introduction to the Internet (pptx, pdf, video: part1, video: part2)	1.1, 1.2, 1.7	Interesting RFCs; Clos Networks; Google Datacenter Networks; ISP Backbone Maps;
2	Thursday Sept. 4		Taxonomy of communication networks (pptx, pdf video: part1 video: part2)	1.3, 1.4

Acknowledgment: The materials of this course are heavily based on CPSC 433/533 at Yale University, by courtesy of Dr. Y. Richard Yang.

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