Literature

Recommended text book

TCP/IP Protocol Suite, Third or Fourth Edition by Behrouz A. Forouzan, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-296772-2 (ISBN 0-07-111583-8 for the paperback version).
The book has a good coverage of modern Internetworking topics and has a very pedagogical top-down approach.

The second edition of the book can also be used.

Reading instructions for the text book

The book is quite large. A recommendation is to use the lecture slides as guidelines on what is relevant.
Reading instructions for 3rd Edition summarizes the chapters that you should read for the exam if you are using the third edition of the book.
Reading instructions for 4th Edition summarizes the chapters that you should read for the exam if you are using the fourth edition of the book.

Optional reading material

Here you find pointers to some interesting review articles related to the course. Please note that the articles are subject of copyright rules, and the electronic copies are provided for your personal use only, you are not allowed to publish or redistribute them.

• B.M. Leiner, V.G. Cerf, D.D. Clark, R.E. Kahn, L. Kleinrock, D.C. Lynch, J. Postel, L.G. Roberts, S. Wolff, "A Brief History of the Internet", in ACM Computer Communication Review, 39(5), Oct. 200\ 9, pp. 22-31., [link] [pdf]
• Computer Networking: Princpiples, Protocols and Practice (an open-source networking textbook, under development) [link].
• C.A. Sunshine, Y.K. Dalal, "Connection Management in Transport Protocols", Computer Networks, Vol 2, No. 6, 1978, pp. 454-473 [link] [pdf]
• Y.-D. Lin, C.-C. Tseng, C.-Y. Ho, Y.-H. Wu, "How NAT-compatible are VoIP applications?", in IEEE Communications Magazine, 48(12), pp. 58-65., Dec. 2010. [link] [pdf].
• S. Iren, P.D. Amer, P.T. Conrad, "The Transport Layer: Tutorial and Survey", ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 31, No. 4, December 1999. [link] [pdf].

More to come...