CSE 316 · Autumn 2026 · 12 weeks

Lectures

Sun 13 Sep – Thu 3 Dec — 23 lectures, two classes a week. Classroom Quiz 1 rides in Week 5 (Class 1), Quiz 2 in Week 11 (Class 1); the midterm falls in Week 7, on a date between 27 and 31 October that the Department fixes. Every session opens with its full video lecture, then the animations with voice-over and the live demos.

1

Week 1Sep 13–17

S01What is data communication? S02Networks, topologies and switching

2

Week 2Sep 20–24

S03Layers, encapsulation and the OSI model S04Signals and digital transmission

3

Week 3Sep 27–Oct 1

S05Transmission impairments and channel limits S06How good is the network?

4

Week 4Oct 4–8

S07The data-link layer: framing, MAC addresses and ARP S08The network layer: best-effort, delays and congestion

5

Week 5Oct 11–15

S09IPv4: the space, the notation, the classesQUIZ 1 S10Classless: prefixes and masks

6

Week 6Oct 18–22

S11Block arithmetic: size, first address, last address S12Subnetting I: equal-size subnets

7

Week 7Oct 25–29

S13Midterm review and problem clinic

MIDTERM EXAMINATIONDATE TBD · 27–31 OCT

8

Week 8Nov 1–5

S14Subnetting II: designing unequal subnets S15The ISP block allocation problem, end to end

9

Week 9Nov 8–12

S16Aggregation — the knife runs backwards S17Forwarding — every rule that fits speaks

10

Week 10Nov 15–19

S18MPLS — the road not taken, taken anyway S19IPv6 — a bigger everything

11

Week 11Nov 22–26

S20IPv6 II — the self-addressing machineQUIZ 2 S21Transport — the last hop is inside

12

Week 12Nov 29–Dec 3

S22ARQ — and a protocol that bins good data S23TCP, and the whole stack