This course teaches the methods and tools used for network programming. Topics include: Operating System support for network protocols; inter-process communication facilities such as pipes, Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) and sockets; design of client and server sides of network protocols; and network security.
General Class Information
Professor
- Mike Parsa, Email: meparsa@ucsc.edu
- Office: TBD
- Office Hours: Monday, 6:00 PM – 6:45 PM
Teaching Assistant
- Kerry Veenstra, Email: veenstra@soe.ucsc.edu
- Office Hours: during lab sessions
Class Meeting Times
- Lecture: Monday and Wednesday 7:00 PM – 8:45 PM, Social Sciences 1, Room 161
- Labs: Tuesday and Thursday, Noon – 2:00 PM, Baskin Engineering 301A
Other Dates
- Begins: Monday, January 4
- Midterm: February 22, 2016, covers topics through Lecture 11.
- Holidays: Monday, January 18 and Monday, February 15
- Ends: Friday, March 11
- Final Exam: Wednesday, March 16, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
Prerequsites
Books
Unix Network Programming, Volume 1, The Sockets Networking API, 3rd ed.
By W. Richard Stevens, Bill Fenner, and M. Rudoff
ISBN-10: 0131411551, ISBN-13: 9780131411555
© 2004 Addison-Wesley Professional
Published November 14, 2003
It is worth the investment to have a personal copy of this book. You will use it for years!
The book's web site has a link to let you download all of its source code examples.
Evaluation Criteria
| Programming Assignments | 30% |
| Midterm | 25% |
| Final Project | 30% |
| Final Quiz | 10% |
| Class Participation | 5% |
Academic Integrity
All programs submitted must be your own. Any unauthorized collaboration will be treated as a violation of academic integrity and handled according to University policies (see Academic Misconduct Policy for Undergraduates for details).
Topics By Week
Tentative schedule:
- Week 1: (1/4–1/6) Introduction and Review, Transport Layer (TCP and UDP), Sockets.
- Weeks 2 and 3: (1/11, 1/13, 1/20) Operating System support for network protocols (process management, memory management, mutual exclusion). Inter-process communication mechanisms: sockets, forks.
- Week 4: UDP sockets, SCTP.
- Week 5: DNS, HTTP.
- Week 6: Design of client and server sides of network applications.
- Week 6: Case study: Apache Web Server
- Week 7: Multicast and broadcast
- Week 7: Network security: Authentication and encryption, Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
- Weeks 8-10: Final project
Lecture Notes And References
- Lecture 1 (1/4): Introduction and Review (Ch. 1)
- Lectures 2 and 3 (1/6 and 1/11): Sockets (Ch. 3)
- Lecture 4 (1/13): pThreads (Ch. 26)
- Lecture 5 (1/20): Producer/Consumer and TFTP
- Lecture 6 (1/25): Thread Safety, Client/Server (Ch. 5), and I/O Multiplexing (Ch. 6)
- Lecture 7 (1/27): Socket Options (Ch. 7) and first half of UDP (Ch. 8)
- Lecture 8 (2/1): second half of Lecture 7's UDP slides and SCTP (Ch. 9)
- Lecture 9 (2/3): Name and Address Conversion (Ch. 11), Broadcasting (Ch. 20 and 21)
- Lecture 10 (2/8): IPv6 (Ch. 12) and first half of Advanced I/O (Ch. 14 and 16)
- Lecture 11 (2/10): second half of Lecture 10's Advanced I/O slides (Ch. 16)
- Lectures 12 and 13 (2/24, 2/29): HTTP
- Lecture 14 and 15 (3/2, 3/7): Routing
- Lecture 16 (3/9): Server Discussion (Ch. 30)
Programming Assignments
- Assignment #1 (due date: Friday, January 22): Assignment #1 PDF, Quick Reference on using Sockets
- Assignment #2 (updated due date: Sunday, February 7): Assignment #2 PDF
- Assignment #3 (updated due date: Friday, February 19, 11:59 PM) Assignment #3 PDF
- Assignment #4 (due date: Wednesday, March 2, 11:59 PM): Assignment #4 PDF, Kerry's Powerpoint, Forum comment on assignment organization
Final Project
Topic: RIP router (see references). The Final Project PDF. Due March 16, 11:59 PM.