Network Architecture I

CSEE 5110 – Fall 2020

Lecture #1
Course overview, organization and logistics

Farid Naït-Abdesselam
[email protected]

Wednesday 8/26/2020
Agenda
• Few words about me

• Course overview

• Information & logistics

• Assignments

• Projects
 Who am I ?

Appointments Research
Professor (06/2019 – present)
•
University of Missouri Kansas City, MO, USA • Wireless Networking
• Research Professor (04/2018 – 05/2019)
Iowa State University, IA, USA
• Security & Privacy
• Professor (09/2010 – 08/2018) • Internet of Things
Paris Descartes University, Paris, France
• Healthcare Systems
• Visiting Professor (09/2015 – 08/2016)
Illinois Institute of Technology, IL, USA

• Associate Professor (09/2003 – 08/2010)

University of Lille, Lille, France

• Associate Professor (09/2000 – 08/2003)

INSA of Lyon, Lyon, France
• My lab: SOXS
• Assistant Teaching Professor (09/1999 – 2000) Security & Optimization of X-Systems
University of Lille, Lille, France
• Visiting Research Associate (01/1998 – 12/1998)
University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada X standing for Wireless, Networked,
• Network Engineer & Software Engineer for Communication, Mobile, Software-
multiple companies (01/1995 – 12/1997)
France defined, Healthcare, Smart
 Course overview (1/6)

Topics
• What is a computer network ?

A computer network is a digital

telecommunications network which
allows nodes to share resources and
exchange data with each other using
connections.
 Course overview (2/6)

Focus on Internet Architecture

• In this network architecture course, we’ll
focus mainly on:

– Learning fundamental principles and concepts

in computer networking

– Understand how Internet is architected and

works

– Gain hands-on experiences (via a project and

assignments)

– Focus on network architecture and software of

various layers of the network protocol stack
 Course overview (3/6)

Reference models
• OSI model • TCP/IP model

Fiber-Optic Cables, Coaxial Cable, Radio Waves,

links
Infrared…
 Course overview (4/6)

The Internet network

• The Internet is a massive network of networks. It
connects millions of computers together globally,
forming a network in which any computer can
communicate with any other computer as long as
they are both connected to the Internet.
• Around 3 billion people with internet access and
approximately about 750 million routers in the
world.
• A network made of routers and switches, helping
computers exchange packets/data.
• Three types of packets in the network: data packets,
control packets, and management packets
 Course overview (5/6)

Course objectives
• Understanding the different concepts, architectures, and protocols across the 4
upper-layers of the TCP/IP networks

• Application layer
– Principles of network applications, Web and HTTP, E-mail, SMTP, IMAP, The Domain Name System
DNS, P2P applications, video streaming and content distribution networks, socket programming with
UDP and TCP
• Transport layer
– understand principles behind transport layer services: multiplexing, demultiplexing, reliable data
transfer, flow control, congestion control, …
– learn about Internet transport layer protocols: UDP: connectionless transport, TCP: connection-
oriented reliable transport, TCP congestion control
• Network layer
– Understand principles behind network layer services, focusing on data plane, IP protocol (IPv4),
ICMP protocol, packet forwarding, fragmentation, routing, addressing, etc.. (IPv6 if we have time)
– Understand principles behind network control plane: traditional routing algorithms, SDN controllers,
network management, …
• Link layer
– understand principles behind link layer services: error detection, correction, sharing a broadcast
channel: multiple access, link layer addressing, local area networks: Ethernet, VLANs, Wi-Fi, etc.
 Course overview (6/6)

Course objectives – Cont’d.

• Understand the inherent parameters to consider before
architecting a network

• Hands-on experience in the design of network architectures

(Cisco Packet Tracer), in analyzing network traffic (Wireshark)
Questions about course overview ?

Any questions about content, focus, etc.,

send an email through canvas
 Information & logistics (1/10)

Course materials and so on.

CANVAS
https://canvas.umkc.edu/
https://umkc.instructure.com/
 Information & logistics (2/10)

Prerequisites
• The course has official prerequisites

– You’re a graduate student

– CS-420, CS-431 (Algorithms, Operating Systems, Basic Knowledge of

Probability)

– Decent computer-programming expertise (C/C++, JAVA, Others)

– Your best friend is Google to find manuals, tutorials, etc. to help you with the
above
 Information & logistics (3/10)

Deliverables and grading Evaluation Percentage

• Individual work – 20% Homeworks 20%

– 2 assignments Project 40%
– Deadline for turning in the work is exactly 2 weeks
Exam 40%
– Late submission 10% per day penalty on the assignment,
up to 2 days
Marks
A [85–100]
• Project – 40% A- [80–85[
– 4 presentations (pitch, proposal, progress, final) – 20% B+ [78–80[
Graded individually, everyone must participate B [73–78[
– 2 written reports (proposal report and final report) – 20% B- [70–73[
No late submissions accepted C+ [68–70[
C [63–68[
• Exam – 40% C- [60–63[

– Take-home exams and comprehensive D+ [58–60[

Individual work. No cheating, otherwise, you fail the D [53–58[

course D- [50–53[
F ]50,0]
 Information & logistics (4/10)

Individual work – 20%

• 2 assignments
– Simulation/Experimentation/Programming/Building
component
– Research/Survey component/Paper presentation

• Assignment details and deadlines will be

indicated in canvas

• The work is individual à each student does

his/her own work
– Discussion is encouraged

• Emulation vs. Platform

– Network Emulation with Cisco Packet Tracer
Tons of tutorials available online
– Traffic Analysis with Wireshark
Tons of tutorials available online
– Platform using Raspberry Pi 3 (or similar platform)
 Information & logistics (5/10)

Project – 40%
• Project details
– Teams of 1, 2, or 3 students maximum
– Project topics – I can suggest you some or you can come with your own
project
– 4 presentations (pitch, proposal, progress, final) – 20% (Graded individually,
everyone must participate)
– 2 written reports (proposal report, final report in the form of a research paper)
– 20% (No late submissions accepted)
§ Recorded presentation (pitch) will be in mid-September, so form teams
and get started soon with a project
§ Formal project proposal report and zoom presentation in early-October
§ Recorded progress presentation in mid-November
§ Final presentation in early-December
§ Final report due during finals week
 Information & logistics (6/10)

Exam – 40%
• Take-home exam
– Exam 1 – 5th or 6th week (10%)
– Exam 2 – 10th or 11th week (10%)
– Final exam – 15th week (20%)

• Individual work. No cheating, otherwise, you fail the course

• Will take the form of:

– Questions on the covered material in class
– Problems solving
– Questions on research papers to read
– Multiple choice questions
– Etc.
 Information & logistics (7/10)

Contact
• Instructor
Farid Nait-Abdesselam

• Email
[email protected]

• Office
Flarsheim 570B

• Phone
816-235-2335

• Office hours
Monday and Wednesday 1PM – 2PM or send an email for an in-person or zoom
appointment
 Information & logistics (8/10)

Some other syllabus details

• Class meetings
No meetings. All lectures will be recorded and posted on Canvas.
Announcement/email will be sent each time a change is made on Canavas

• Class website – canvas.umkc.edu

Slides, assignments, papers, projects, submissions, …

• Textbooks
Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, 8th Edition, by James Kurose and
Keith Ross, Prentice Hall.
Data Communications and Networking, 5th Edition by Behrouz A. Forouzan.
Google, YouTube..
 Information & logistics (9/10)

Important policies
• Academic integrity
All students are expected to adhere to academic integrity policies set by UMKC

• Collaboration policy
Discussions are encouraged, but assignments must be done individually
à copying or sharing is cheating à failing grade

• Plagiarism
No copying, attribute all content sources using proper in-place references

• Re-grading
On case-by-case basis, contact me (mistakes are made by humans)
 Information & logistics (10/10)

Ethics
• Research, development, and experimentation with sensitive
information, attack protocols, misbehavior, etc. should be performed
with the utmost care

• You are expected to follow a strict ethical code, especially when

dealing with potentially sensitive information

• If anything is unclear, ask before going forward

Questions about information and logistics?

Feel free to email later if needed.

 Assignments

What and when

• Assignment #1 and #2

Questions on some covered topics till then and general networking domain
Problem solving

Assignment #1 will be posted online in canvas around late-September

Assignment #2 will be posted online in canvas around late-October

Each assignment should be returned 2 weeks after its posting on Canvas.

• Totaling 20% of your grade

 Projects (1/3)

Topics
• Relate to systems covered in class and focus on some aspects of
wireless network security

• Strive for new research/development contributions and plan to

submit a conference paper, poster, or demo

• It cannot be a project you’re working on for your research or another

course

• Examples of projects
– One-on-One video web-conferencing
– Dynamic web-based healthcare system collecting healthcare sensed data
– Privacy-preserving selective encryption between a sender and receiver
– …
 Projects (2/3)

Project teams
• Forming a team of 1, 2 or 3 students and choosing a project
These two things are not independent

• Try to choose members of a team with common interests, different

backgrounds, etc.
Not just your friends

• Each team must have its own independent project

Exceptions are made if independent parts are clearly distinguished in a common
bigger project – needs my approval
 Projects (3/3)

More details
• Projects could be sponsored by tech companies
Let me know if there are such plans

• A project output will include a paper, poster, and/or demo

Aim for conference-quality results

• We can negotiate hardware loan/purchase for project use

Have some Raspberry Pi 3 (for locals)

• Totaling 40% of your grade

 Exams

More details
• Take-home exams
– Exam 1 – 5th or 6th week (10%)
The best grade will be considered (20%)
– Exam 2 – 10th or 11th week (10%)

– Final exam – final week (20%)

• Totaling 40% of your grade

Questions about Assignments and Projects ?

Feel free to email later if needed.

 Network Architecture I
CSEE 5590 – Fall 2020

Lecture #2
Introduction to Network Architecture
Farid Naït-Abdesselam
[email protected]

Next Wednesday 9/2/2019