Topics related to Transport Protocols

The scope of the content includes concepts of transport protocols - an important point is that some of these functions are likely to be done multiple times at different layers in a networking stack. As an example, error detection and recovery is a concept that applies to virtually every layer of a layered network stack, from the physical layer to the application layer. We've developed the UDPEcho program throughout the semester to help understand these concepts.

Text book and outside sources covering this material:

• Kurose text, chapter 3 covers transport protocols
• Donahoo - sections that relate to TCP sockets, including the discussion in Ch 7 (which is talking about TCP flow control)
• Several papers: (assume these are for background....check the schedule page to see if these are required reading)
  • The paper : "You don't know Jack about Network Performance" covers performance implications of windowed protocols, including the BDP concept
  • The paper : Congestion Avoidance and Congestion Control

Lecture notes that highlight material from the texts and papers:

• Transport Protocols - Sliding Window
• IP stuff - just introducing the IP Datagram concept and header formats (as this contains transport layer data)
• icmp-udp
• tcp- introduction

last updated: 3/4/2018