Instructor Baochun Li Room 4118, Bahen Centre of Information Technology bli@ece.toronto.edu Lectures Room PB-B250, Leslie L. Dan Pharmacy Building Thursdays, 2 — 4 p.m. First lecture: Friday, September 15, 2023 Last lecture: December 1, 2023 Office Hours Tuesdays 1 p.m. — 2 p.m., or by appointment (send email to: bli@ece.toronto.edu) Office Hours Location In person: BA 4118 Course material lecture notes and critique papers Required textbooks (Salzer) Principles of Computer System Design: An Introduction, J. H. Saltzer, and M. Frans Kaashoek (Chapter 7: The Network as a System and as a System Component) (Keshav) An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking, Addison-Wesley, 1997 (Chapter 5, 6, 9, 13, 14, 16) (Easley) Networks, Crowds, and Markets, D. Easley and J. Kleinberg, Cambridge University Press (Chapter 6-15) Important deadlines Six paper critiques (18%): due on Fridays, starting September 29, 2023, Thursday Midterm paper draft (17%): due on October 20, 2023, 11:59 p.m., Friday Final paper (30%): due on December 22, 2023, 11:59 p.m., Friday Final Examination (35%): December 15, 2023, 1 — 3 p.m., Friday, TBD Grades Posted in the Grade Centre, located in the course website on Quercus Announcements Posted in the Announcement section, located in the course website on Quercus