| Date | Day | Contents | Reading | Notes |
| 2-Sep | Tuesday | Introduction | Ch1 | |
| 4-Sep | Thursday | Internet Applicaitons | Ch2 | |
| 9-Sep | Tuesday | Distributed Data Processing | Ch2 | Form project group, homework #1 |
| 11-Sep | Thursday | Physical Layer | Ch3 | |
| 16-Sep | Tuesday | Physical Layer | Ch3 | Quiz 1 (Ch1, 2) |
| 18-Sep | Thursday | Physical Layer | Ch3 | Homework #2 |
| 23-Sep | Tuesday | Data Link Layer | Ch4 | Group homepage due |
| 25-Sep | Thursday | Data Link Layer | Ch4 | Homework #3 |
| 30-Sep | Tuesday | Midterm Exam1 | Ch2-4 | |
| 2-Oct | Thursday | Network Layer | Ch5 | |
| 7-Oct | Tuesday | Project 1 Discussion | Project 1 due | |
| 10-Oct | Thursday | Network Layer | Ch5 | Homework #4 |
| 14-Oct | Tuesday | Routing and QoS | Handout | |
| 16-Oct | Thursday | LAN | Ch6 | Quiz 2 (Ch5), Homework #5 |
| 21-Oct | Tuesday | LAN | Ch6 | |
| 23-Oct | Thursday | Backbone Network | Ch7 | Homework #6 |
| 28-Oct | Tuesday | Backbone Network | Ch7 | Homework #7 |
| 30-Oct | Thursday | WAN | Ch8 | |
| 4-Nov | Tuesday | Midterm Exam 2 | Ch5-7 | |
| 6-Nov | Thursday | WAN | Ch8, 9 | Homework #8 |
| 11-Nov | Tuesday | Wireless Networks | Handout | Quiz 3 (WAN), Homework #9 |
| 13-Nov | Thursday | Network Security | Ch10 | |
| 18-Nov | Tuesday | Network Security | Ch10 | Quiz 4 (Wireless), Homework #10 |
| 20-Nov | Thursday | Network Security | Ch10 | |
| 25-Nov | Tuesday | Network Management | Ch12 | Quiz 5 (Ch10) |
| 27-Nov | Thursday | Thanksgiving | ||
| 2-Dec | Tuesday | Advanced topics in data comm | ||
| 4-Dec | Thursday | Group presentations | ||
| 9-Dec | Tuesday |
Seminar: Grid Computing Guest Speaker: Jerry Perez, HPCC |
Project 3 due | |
| 13-Dec | Saturday | Final Exam (10:30a-1:00p) |
Comprehensive |