General and Historic Course Information
Course Information and Procedures |
Academic Honesty Policies |
Student Disabilities
: last modified 20 Oct 06
Required Text:
Computer Networks, Fourth Edition, Andrew Tanenbaum |
Networks Reference Textbooks
: last modified 20 Oct 06
Recommended Text: TCP/IP Sockets in C, Practical Guide for Programmers, Michael Donahoo
and Ken Calvert
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 early 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 30 Nov 06
Class List (pdf)
: last modified 8 Nov 06
Programming Teams (pdf)
: last modified 25 Nov 06
Teams Demo Schedule (pdf)
: last modified 11 Dec 06
Programming Assignments
All the programming assignments were significantly revamped in B05 after Hurricane Katrina.
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.
Choosing team partners:
ALL three members MUST send an email to rek indicating that they agree to be a team by Monday, November
6th by 8 p.m.
Those students remaining as 'free agents' will be assigned to teams.
Each team must participate in a REQUIRED 30-minute office hour meeting to discuss their design report
by 5 p.m. on Friday, November 10th.
Program 1 (pdf)
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Program 2 (pdf)
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Design Report (pdf)
: last modified 10 Nov 06
Assignment 3: WLAN Measurements (pdf)
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Program 4 (pdf)
: last modified 20 Oct 06
Office | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
Bob Kinicki | FL 135 | 10-11 a.m. |   | 9-10 a.m. | 2-3 p.m. | ||
TA: Mingzhe Li | FL A22 | 4-6 p.m. | 11 a.m - 1 p.m. | ||||
SA: Isaac Chanin | ADP Lab | 3-5 p.m. | 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. |
Mid Term Exams | B06 Review (pdf) | B05 (pdf) | B04 (pdf) | C04 (pdf) | Answer Q13 Midterm B05 (pdf) |
Final Exams | B06 Review (pdf) | B05 (pdf) | B04 (pdf) | C04 (pdf) | Answer Q15 Midterm B04 (pdf) |
Answer Q14 Midterm C04 (pdf) | |||||
Answer Q13 Midterm B06 (pdf) |
Help Session 1 [B06] | ppt | Updated: 26 Oct 06 | |
Help Session 1 [B05] | ppt | Updated: 31 Oct 05 | Help Session 1 [B04] | ppt | Updated: 28 Oct 04 |
Help Session 2 [B06] | ppt | Updated: 8 Nov 06 | |
Help Session 2 [B05] | ppt | Updated: 9 Nov 05 | Help Session 2 [B04] | ppt | Updated: 9 Nov 04 |
Help Session 3 [B06] | ppt | Updated: 27 Nov 06 | |
MATLAB Help Session Slides |   | Updated: 29 Nov 06 | |
Log Files | html |   | Updated: 30 Nov 06 |
TypePerf | html |   | Updated: 30 Nov 06 | Help Session 3 [B05] | ppt | Updated: 5 Dec 05 | Help Session 3 [B04] | ppt | Updated: 1 Dec 04 |
Introduction: Network Definitions and Classification | ppt | Updated: 19 Oct 06 | Internet, HTTP and DNS Examples | ppt | Updated: 26 Oct 06 | TCP Sockets | ppt | Updated: 25 Oct 06 | OSI Reference Model | ppt | Updated: 20 Oct 06 | Network Switching | ppt | Updated: 20 Oct 06 | Network Performance Measures | ppt | Updated: 20 Oct 06 | Sample Network Delay Problems | ppt | Updated: 3 Nov 06 | Physical Layer | ppt | Updated: 2 Nov 06 | Data Encoding | ppt | Updated: 1 Nov 06 | Transmission Media | ppt | Updated: 1 Nov 06 | Transmission Errors | ppt | Updated: 1 Nov 06 | Bit and Byte Stuffing | ppt | Updated: 2 Nov 06 | Data Link Layer | ppt | Updated: 10 Nov 06 | Local Area Networks | ppt | Updated: 3 Nov 06 | Media Access Control (MAC) | ppt | Updated: 11 Nov 06 | Ethernet | ppt | Updated: 16 Nov 06 | Wireless LANs | ppt | Updated: 20 Nov 06 | Computer Network Performance Evaluation |
Video |
  | Updated: 16 Nov 06 | "Characterization of 802.11 Wireless Networks in the Home" | ppt | Updated: 26 Nov 06 | "Performance Analysis of the Intertwined Effects between Network Layers for 802.11g Transmissions" | ppt | Updated: 25 Nov 06 | Bridges | ppt | Updated: 27 Nov 06 | Token Ring and FDDI | ppt | Updated: 29 Nov 06 | Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet | ppt | Updated: 6 Dec 06 | SONET | ppt | Updated: 4 Dec 06 | ATM | ppt | Updated: 2 Dec 06 | Network Layer | ppt | Updated: 8 Dec 06 | TCP Sliding Windows | ppt | Updated: 7 Dec 06 | TCP Congestion Control | ppt | Updated: 30 Nov 06 | Distributed Denial of Service Tutorial | ppt | Updated: 10 Dec 06 |
Last modified: 11 December 2006
Bob Kinicki