Internet Technologies and Applications (ITS413)

Topics

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Week	Date	Topic
1	8 Nov	Course Introduction Internet Technology Review
2	15 Nov	Internet Technology Review
3	22 Nov	Wireless LANs
4	29 Nov	Wireless LANs
5	6 Dec	Mobile Networking
6	13 Dec	Mobile Networking
7	20 Dec	Internet Privacy
8	27 Dec	Internet Privacy
9	3 Jan	Mid-Term Review
	10 Jan	Mid-term Exam
10	17 Jan	Searching the Internet
11	24 Jan	Peer-to-Peer Systems
12	31 Jan	Peer-to-Peer Systems
13	7 Feb	Instant Messaging
14	14 Feb	Internationalisation
15	21 Feb	(Makha Bucha Day - no lecture)
	28 Feb	(no lecture)
	7 Mar;	Final Exam

Course Introduction

Lecture Notes
Further reading: browse through this web site, becoming familiar with the assessment items, resources and lecture schedule

Internet Technology Review

Lecture Notes
Textbook: the material covered in this lecture is a review of topics covered in previous courses, in particular ITS 323. You should review your lecture notes and textbooks from that course. A list of textbooks can be found in the Study Guide.
Examples: Flooding; Case Study: SIIT Network
Internet Information Research Centre at NECTEC, Thailand. Includes maps of Internet connectivity in Thailand

Wireless LANs

Lecture Notes
Textbook: Not covered in Internetworking with TCP/IP, however many other textbooks do cover wireless LANs: Sections 6.1 and 6.3 of Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach; Chapter 17 of Data and Computer Communications; and Chapter 14 of Data Communications and Networking.
Two papers published by IEEE by William Stallings on Wireless LANs. The first, IEEE 802.11: Moving closer to practical wireless LANS, and the follow-up IEEE 802.11: wireless LANs from a to n.

Mobile Networking

Lecture Notes
Textbook: Chapter 18 of Internetworking with TCP/IP. Alternatively, Sections 6.5 to 6.8 in Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach

Mobile IP

IETF Mobile IP Standards: IP Mobility Support for IPv4 (RFC3344)
Mobile IP at Network Sorcery
Mobile IP by Debalina Ghosh published in ACM Crossroad magazine
Understanding Mobile IPv6 from Microsoft (orig inal | local copy)
Introduction to Mobile IPv6 by the Cable Guy at Microsoft

NEMO

The old IETF NEMO Working Group, including the NEMO Basic Support RFC 3963
IPv6 Network Mobility published in the Cisco Internet Protocol Journal (local copy in PDF)

MANETs

IETF MANET Working Group, including RFCs for several MANET routing protocols
A list of links to MANET pages provided by NIST

Internet Privacy

Lecture Notes: Network Security, Internet Privacy
Textbook: Chapter 30 of Internetworking with TCP/IP. Alternatively, Chapter 21 of Data and Computer Communications, Chapter 8 of Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach or Chapters 31 and 32 of Data Communications and Networking all provide goood introductions to network security.

IPsec

IPsec RFC 2401
IPsec at Microsoft
The above mentioned textbooks all describe IPsec.

TOR

TOR
TOR Status - lists the current set of TOR routers and their status.
Deploying Low Latency Anonymity, by Dingledine, Mathewson and Syverson in IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, September 2007.
TOR Design Document
Another presentation on TOR

Searching the Internet

Lecture Notes
Netcraft - includes surveys of web server statistics
Alexa - Internet search and statistics company, lists the top web sites
Truehits - Thailand search and web statistics

Peer-to-Peer Systems

Lecture Notes
ipoque - statistics on P2P (and other) application traffic in the Internet
OpenP2P - news and resources about P2P programming, applications and open source
Distributed Hash Tables at Wikipedia
P2P Applications and Protocols:

Instant Messaging

Lecture Notes
Instant messaging and presence technologies, in IEEE Network magazine, 2005.
Study of Internet instant messaging protocols, in IEEE Network magazine, 2006.

Internationalisation

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