The Internet and Public Policy (4). How the Internet works. Current public policy issues concerning the Internet. Introductory economics. Communications law. Interactions between information technology, economics, and law. Case studies about Internet and communications policy. (II or III)
| Lecture |
Topic |
Reading (page numbers for Leon-Garcia & Schiller refer to green reader page numbers, page numbers for Kurose refer to textbook page numbers) |
Assignment |
| 1 (1/10) |
Networks: telephone networks, terminology, Internet topology, packets, delays, layers, applications |
Tanenbaum 2.5, Leon-Garcia 1.1.2(6-10) |
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| 2 (1/12) |
Kurose 1.1(2-9), Kurose 1.7(61-68), Kurose 1.3-1.4.1(25-40), Leon-Garcia 1.1.3(10-23) |
PS1 |
| 3 (1/17) |
Kurose 1.4.2-1.5 (40-54), Kurose 2.1-2.2(85-90,100-102,110-112), Kurose 2.4(120-126), Kurose 2.6(146-147,151-153) |
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| 4 (1/19) |
Economics: utility, demand, production, supply, equilibrium, public goods, externalities, market power |
Kurose 7.1.1 (598-601), Schiller 19(62-67), Schiller 3(40-44), Schiller 20(95-100) |
PS2 |
| 5 (1/24) |
Schiller 20(100-104,106-107), Schiller 3(48-50), Schiller3(37-40,44-46,50-56) |
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| 6 (1/26) |
Schiller 4(122-129) |
PS3 |
| 7 (1/31) |
Law & Public Policy, Economics: monopoly |
Schiller 23(145-157), Benjamin 2, Sterling 1.3 |
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| 8 (2/2) |
Economics: monopoly, regulations, subsidies, anti-trust |
Schiller 23(157-165), Schiller 26(170-186) |
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9 (2/7) |
Privacy case study |
see case materials |
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| 10 (2/9) |
PS4 |
| 11 (2/14) |
Networks: congestion control, addresses, routing, Ethernet, Wi-Fi |
Kurose 3.1(197-203), Kurose 3.3 (210-214), Kurose 3.7(281-289), Kurose 4.4.2(348-351), Kurose 4.1.1(315-320) |
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| 12 (2/16) |
Kurose 2.5(132-141), Kurose 4.6.2-4.6.3(398-407), Kurose 5.3(455-468), Kurose 5.4.1-5.4.2(469-474), Kurose 5.5(475-486) |
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13 (2/21) |
Copyright Infringement case study |
see case materials |
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| 14 (2/23) |
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| 15 (2/28) |
Networks: cellular, cable, QoS |
Kurose 6.4(558-563), Tanenbaum 2.7-2.8, Kurose 7.1(597-607), Kurose 7.5-7.6(647-672) |
PS5 |
| 16 (3/1) |
Law |
Leon-Garcia 1.3(25-30), Black 2.5.5 |
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| 17 (3/6) |
Net Neutrality case study |
see case materials |
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| 18 (3/8) |
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| 19 (3/13) |
Review |
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| 20 (3/15) |
Review |
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| Final (3/20 4:00-6:00pm) |
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all readings listed above |
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