| Date | Lectures on | Reading Assignment (Initials: Chapter.Section) |
| 1/23 | Course presentation. | . |
| . | Basic Network Mechanisms. | WV 2.1-2.6. |
| . | Layered Architecture. | WV 2.7-2.8. |
| . | OSI and IP Models. | WV 3.1. |
| . | Ethernet / Token Ring. | WV 3.2-3.3. |
| . | FDDI / DQDB / Frame Relay / SMDS. | WV 3.4-3.7. |
| . | Internet Protocols. | WV 4.1-4.3. |
| . | TCP/UDP. | WV 4.4. |
| . | Sonet / DWDM. | . |
| . | DSL / CaTV. | . |
| . | Network Security. | . |
| . | Special lecture: the ECE network. | . |
| . | Basics on Image and Video Coding. | . |
| . | Anatomy of a (Crude) Video Coder. | . |
| . | Multiacess communication. The Aloha protocol. | . |
| . | Window Flow Control. | . |
| . | Routing. | . |
| . | Graph Algorithms for Routing. | . |
| . | Switching. | . |