WPI Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Computer Science Department


CS4516 Advanced Computer Networks - Term C13
Instructor: Bob Kinicki

General and Historic Course Information
Course Information and Procedures | Academic Honesty Policies | Student Disabilities : last modified 3 Jan 13
Required Text: Computer Networking A Top-Down Approach, Sixth Edition, James Kurose and Keith Ross 5th Edition on Reserve
Recommended Text: TinyOS Programming, Philip Levis and David Gay, Cambridge University Press, 2009
Other Reference Texts: Networks Textbooks : last modified 11 Jan 13
Other Network Programming Resources : last modified 11 Jan 13

Course Syllabus (pdf) : last modified 11 Feb 13
Class List (pdf) : last modified 16 Jan 13
Programming Teams (pdf) : last modified 19 Feb 13

Programming Assignments

Program 0: Enhanced TCP Echo Client and Server : last modified 3 Jan 13
Design Report: Disaster Victim Location Database with Selected Repeat : last modified 18 Jan 13
Program 1: Disaster Victim Location Database with Selected Repeat : last modified 4 Feb 13
WLAN Report: Wireless Measurement Study : last modified 11 Feb 13
Program 2: Sensing and Communicating using TinyOS and TelosB Motes : last modified 19 Feb 13
Program 3: A Network of TelosB Sub-Networks : last modified 22 Feb13

TinyOS Helpful Sites

ER8600 Switch
WPI Campus Network

Office Hours Schedule

  Office Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Bob Kinicki FL 135   9-10 a.m. 4-5 p.m.   2-3 p.m. 3-4 p.m.
TA: Hao Wan FL A22     8-9 p.m. 3-4 p.m. 11-noon
4-5 p.m.
 

Help Session Slides

Help Session 1 [C13] pdf pptx Updated: 18 Jan 13

Old CS4516 and CS4514 Exams

Mid Term Exams MidTerm Review C13 (pdf) D12 (pdf) D11 (pdf) C10 (pdf) Answer Q13 Midterm D11 (pdf)
Final Exams C13 Review (pdf) D12 (pdf) B07 (pdf) C10 (pdf) Answer Q16 Midterm D12 (pdf)

CS4516 Lecture Slides

Course Objectives pdf pptx Updated: 2 Jan 13
Review: TCP Sockets pdf pptx Updated: 2 Jan 13
Review: Architecture, OSI Reference Model and TCP/IP Suite pdf pptx Updated: 14 Jan 13
Review: Network Performance Measures pdf pptx Updated: 4 Jan 13
Sample Network Delay Problems pdf pptx Updated: 30 Jan 13
Review: Data Link Layer pdf pptx Updated: 17 Jan 13
Framing, Bit and Byte Stuffing pdf pptx Updated: 22 Jan 13
Transmission Errors pdf pptx Updated: 25 Jan 13
Physical Layer pdf pptx Updated: 22 Jan 13
Data Encoding pdf pptx Updated: 28 Jan 13
Transmission Media pdf pptx Updated: 5 Feb 13
Local Area Networks pdf pptx Updated: 5 Feb 13
Ethernet pdf pptx Updated: 29 Jan 13
Bridges pdf pptx Updated: 5 Feb 13
Wireless Networks pdf pptx Updated: 11 Feb 13
"Characterization of 802.11 Wireless Networks in the Home" pdf pptx Updated: 15 Feb 13
"Performance Anomaly of 802.11b" pdf pptx Updated: 11 Feb 13
"Performance Analysis of the Intertwined Effects between Network Layers for 802/11g Transmissions" pdf pptx Updated: 11 Feb 13
Wireless Sensor Networks pdf pptx Updated: 8 Feb 13
Berkeley Introduction to Motes pdf pptx Updated: 8 Feb 13
Computer Network Performance Evaluation Video
  Updated: 16 Nov 06
Introduction to TinyOS and nesC pdf pptx Updated: 19 Feb 13
TinyOS Applications pdf pptx Updated: 18 Feb 13
Cellular and Mobile Networks pdf pptx Updated: 20 Feb 13
FDDI pdf pptx Updated: 21 Feb 13
Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet pdf pptx Updated: 21 Feb 13
SONET pdf pptx Updated: 21 Feb 13
ATM pdf pptx Updated: 21 Feb 13

REK's Home Page

Last modified: 4 March 2013

Bob Kinicki
Fuller Labs 135
Computer Science Department
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, MA 01609
rek@cs.wpi.edu