Lectures by Dr. Les Cottrell, SLAC, Stanford

University of Helwan / Egypt, Sept 18 – Oct 3, 2010

1. The Internet, the world cup and Africa, see http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/scs/net/talk10/helwan10.pptx
   Thursday 30th September, 10:15-10:45am Grid Day
   • Methodology
   • Current State
   • What is happening?
   • Impact
   • Next Steps
2. Internet History, trends and futures, see http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/scs/net/talk10/internet-history.pptx
   Sunday 26th September 9:00-9:45am
   • Brief history
   • Design goals
   • Growth & Success
   • Current challenges
   • Internet NG
   • What is driving the changes
3. How is the Internet performing, see http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/scs/net/talk10/perform.pptx
   Sunday 26th September 9:45-10:30am
   • Internet characteristics
   • Users, capacities, satellites, packet sizes, protocols, routing, flows
   • How is it used apps etc.
   • How the Internet worldwide is performing as seen by various measurements and metrics
   • Application requirements
4. Cell Phones, see http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/scs/net/talk10/cellphone-work.pptx
   Monday 27th September, 9:00 - 9:45am
   • Not covering Cordless phones, CB radios, pagers, car phones, Iridium etc.
   • How they work
   • History
   • Cell phone components
   • Power
   • Carriers
   • Coverage
   • Bars
   • Growth
   • Concerns
5. Smart phones & other Mobile computing, see http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/scs/net/talk10/smartphones.pptx
   Monday 27th September, 9:45 - 10:30am
   • Wireless
   • What is a smartphone and their growth
   • Why are they important
   • How are they used
   • What’s coming
   • Bandwidth impact
   • Not for everybody yet
   • Laptops & Netbooks
   • Smartbooks
   • Tablets
   • WiFi
     • How it works
     • Protocols
     • WiFi and smartphones
6. Diagnosing network problems for non-networkers, see http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/scs/net/talk10/diagnosis.pptx
   Wednesday 29th September, 16:00 - 17:30pm
   • Goal: provide a practical guide to debugging common problems
   • Why is diagnosis difficult yet important?
   • Local host
   • Ping, Traceroute, PingRoute
   • Looking at time series
   • Where is a node
   • Who do you tell, what do you say?
   • Case studies and More Information
7. Network Measurements, see http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/scs/net/talk10/internet-measure.pptx
   Wednesday 29th September, 17:30-19:00pm
   • Why is measurement important?
   • LAN vs WAN
   • Passive
     • SNMP, Netflow
     • Effects of measurement interval
   • Active
   • Tools various
     • Ping, traceroute
     • Available bandwidth, achievable bandwidth
   • PingER

Others

Probably we will not cover the items below due to lack of time.

1. Geolocation, see http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/scs/net/talk10/geolocation.pptx
   • Importance
   • How is it done
   • Dynamic method
     • RTT => distance
     • Geometrical methods of finding location from circles
   • Application
   • Challenges
2. Internet case studies
   • Digital Divide and Africa (some of this will be covered in the Grid Day presentation)
   • Cable cuts
   • Impact of TEIN3
   • Pakistan
3. How does the Internet work, see http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/scs/net/talk09/ictp-tcpip.ppt