WPI Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Computer Science Department


CS4514 Computer Networks - Term B05
Instructor: Bob Kinicki

This page will be continuously updated as the term proceeds!

General and Historic Course Information
Course Information and Procedures | Academic Honesty Policies | Student Disabilities : last modified 25 Oct 05
Required Text: Computer Networks, Fourth Edition, Andrew Tanenbaum | Networks Reference Textbooks : last modified 23 Oct 05

Lecture Organization

The undergraduate Computer Networks course has been restructured to provide more emphasis on Wireless Local Area Networks. The impact on the lectures is that some material will be presented "out-of-order" to enable the students to get an early start on the programming assignments.

Course Syllabus (pdf) : last modified 14 Nov 05
Class List (pdf) : last modified 30 Oct 05
Programming Teams (pdf) : lasy modified 9 Nov 05

Programming Assignments

All the programming assignments for Term B05 have been significantly revamped.

As a small token towards our awareness of the tragedies that have befallen the people of the U.S. Gulf Coast, all the programming assignments share a common theme of building software that could be seen in a context of providing technology assistance to disaster evacuees.

To keep the student programming effort reasonable for a seven week term, all the assignments except Program 1 are to be completed by three-person teams.

Program 1 (pdf) :last modified 24 Oct 05
Program 2 (pdf) :last modified 9 Nov 05
Design Report (pdf) :last modified 9 Nov 05
Assignment 3 (pdf) :last modified 28 Nov 05; Wireless Sniffer Tech Report (pdf)
Program 4 (pdf) :last modified 4 Dec 05

 

Office Hours Schedule

  Office Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Bob Kinicki FL 135   2-3 p.m.     10-11 a.m. 3:30-4:00 p.m.
Mingzhe Li FL A22     4-6 p.m.   2-4 p.m.  
Feng Li FL A22   3-5 p.m.     7-9 p.m.  

Old Exams

Mid Term Exams B05 Review (pdf)   B04 (pdf) C04 (pdf) B03 (pdf) Answer Q15 Midterm B04 (pdf)
Final Exams B05 Review (pdf) B04 Review (pdf) B04 (pdf) C04 (pdf) B03 (pdf) Answer Q14 Midterm C04 (pdf)
  Answer Q13 Midterm B05 (pdf)         Answer Q12 Midterm B03 (pdf)

Homework Problems

Homework 1 (pdf)

Help Session Slides

Help Session 1 [B05] pdf ppt Updated: 31 Oct 05
Help Session 1 [B04] pdf ppt Updated: 28 Oct 04
Help Session 1 [C04] pdf ppt Updated: 19 Jan 04
Help Session 2 [B05] pdf ppt Updated: 9 Nov 05
Help Session 2 [B04] pdf ppt Updated: 9 Nov 04
Help Session 2 [C04] pdf ppt Updated: 2 Feb 04
Help Session 3 [B05] pdf ppt Updated: 5 Dec 05
Help Session 3 [B04] pdf ppt Updated: 1 Dec 04
Help Session 3 [C04] pdf ppt Updated: 16 Feb 04

Course Lecture Slides

Introduction: Network Definitions and Classification pdf ppt Updated: 16 Oct 05
Internet, HTTP and DNS Examples pdf ppt Updated: 17 Oct 05
TCP Sockets pdf ppt Updated: 17 Oct 05
OSI Reference Model pdf ppt Updated: 29 Oct 05
Network Switching pdf ppt Updated: 31 Oct 05
Network Performance Measures pdf ppt Updated: 17 Oct 05
Sample Network Delay Problems pdf ppt Updated: 15 Nov 05
Physical Layer pdf ppt Updated: 24 Oct 05
Data Encoding pdf ppt Updated: 2 Nov 05
Transmission Media pdf ppt Updated: 6 Nov 05
Transmission Errors pdf ppt Updated: 6 Nov 05
Bit and Byte Stuffing pdf ppt Updated: 7 Nov 05
Data Link Layer pdf ppt Updated: 13 Nov 05
Local Area Networks pdf ppt Updated: 11 Nov 05
Ethernet pdf ppt Updated: 13 Nov 05
Wireless LANs pdf ppt Updated: 16 Nov 05
"Performance Analysis of the Intertwined Effects between Network Layers for 802.11g Transmissions" pdf ppt Updated: 28 Nov 05
"Characterization of 802.11 Wireless Networks in the Home" pdf ppt Updated: 1 Dec 05
Bridges pdf ppt Updated: 28 Nov 05
Token Ring and FDDI pdf ppt Updated: 30 Nov 05
Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet pdf ppt Updated: 30 Nov 05
SONET pdf ppt Updated: 4 Dec 05
ATM pdf ppt Updated: 5 Dec 05
Network Layer pdf ppt Updated: 12 Dec 05
TCP Sliding Windows pdf ppt Updated: 5 Dec 05
TCP Congestion Control pdf ppt Updated: 30 Nov 05

REK's Home Page

Last modified: 12 December 2005

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