| Week | Date | Topic | Reading | 
| 1 | Introduction to Architecture of the Internet and Cell Biology | 
| 5 Jan (T) | Course overview, applications and administration | Syllabus; Template:Ncsbook | 
| 7 Jan (Th) | Case study: Alice | Cremean et al, 2005 | 
| Architecture Case Studies: Cell Biology, Clothing, Legos | 
| 31 Mar (F) | Message transfer systems: spread | Template:Ncsbook; Lamport, 1978 | 
| 2 | 3 Apr (M) | Multi-threaded control systems: pthreads | Template:Ncsbook; Pthreads | 
| 5 Apr (W) | Alice: adrive, astate, trajFollower | Template:Ncsbook; GCwiki | 
| 7 Apr* (F) | No class |  | 
| 3 | Real-time trajectory generation and receding horizon control (R. Murray) | 
| 10 Apr (M) | Real-time trajectory generation | Template:Ncsbook | 
| 12 Apr* (W) | Receding horizon control (T. Keviczky) | Template:Ncsbook | 
| 14 Apr (F) | Alice: plannerModule | Template:Ncsbook; Kogan, 2005 | 
| 4 | State estimation (H. Sandberg) | 
| 17 Apr (M) | Kalman filtering | Template:Ncsbook; Welch and Bishop | 
| 19 Apr (W) | Moving horizon estimation | Template:Ncsbook | 
| 21 Apr (F) | Alice: roadFollowing (L. Cremean) | Template:Ncsbook | 
| 5 | Packet-based estimation and control, I (B. Sinopoli) | 
| 24 Apr (M) | Packet-based estimation | Template:Ncsbook | 
| 26 Apr (W) | Packet-based Control: the TCP case | Template:Ncsbook | 
| 28 Apr (F) | Packet-based Control: the UDP case | Template:Ncsbook | 
| 6 | Packet-based estimation and control, II (L. Shi, Y. Mostofi) | 
| 1 May (M) | Packet-based Control with Norm Bounded Uncertainties | Template:Ncsbook | 
| 3 May (W) | Impact of Communication Noise on Estimation over Wireless Links | Template:Ncsbook | 
| 5 May (F) | Optimum Receiver Design for Estimation over Wireless Links | Template:Ncsbook | 
| 7 | Distributed estimation and control (V. Gupta) | 
| 8 May* (M) | Distributed Estimation | Template:Ncsbook | 
| 10 May* (W) | Introduction to Distributed Control | Template:Ncsbook | 
| 12 May (F) | Estimation and Control in Networked Systems | Template:Ncsbook | 
| 8 | Cooperative control of multi-agent systems (Z. Jin, T. Keviczky) | 
| 15 May (M) | Consensus Problem and Algorithms | Template:Ncsbook | 
| 17 May* (W) | Cooperative and Coordinated Control Scheme for Multi-Agent Systems | Template:Ncsbook | 
| 19 May (F) | Distributed Receding Horizon Control | Template:Ncsbook | 
| 9 | Project Presentations (All) Template:MWFrow
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