General and Historic Course Information
Course Information and Procedures |
Academic Honesty Policies |
Student Disabilities
: last modified 17 Oct 07
Required Text:
Computer Networks, Fourth Edition, Andrew Tanenbaum |
Networks Reference Textbooks
: last modified 17 Oct 07
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 17 Oct 07
Class List (pdf)
: last modified 30 Oct 07
Programming Teams (pdf)
: last modified 6 Nov 07
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
5th by 6 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 9th.
Program 1 (pdf)
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Program 2 (pdf)
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Design Report (pdf)
: last modified 17 Oct 07
Assignment 3: WLAN Measurement Test Design (pdf)
: last modified 9 Nov 07
Program 4 (pdf)
: last modified 18 Oct 07
| Office | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| Bob Kinicki | FL 135 | 2-3 p.m. | 1:30-2:30 p.m. | ||||
| TA: Feng Li | FL A22 | 7-9 p.m. | 3-5 p.m. | ||||
| SA: Isaac Chanin | ADP Lab | 4-6 p.m. | 4-6 p.m. |
| Mid Term Exams | B07 Review (pdf) | B06 (pdf) | B05 (pdf) | B04 (pdf) | Answer Q13 Midterm B06 (pdf) |
| Final Exams | B07 Review (pdf) | B06 (pdf) | B05 (pdf) | B04 (pdf) | Answer Q13 Midterm B05 (pdf) |
| Answer Q14 Midterm B07 (pdf) |
| Help Session 1 [B07] | ppt | Updated: 24 Oct 07 | Help Session 1 [B06] | ppt | Updated: 26 Oct 06 |
| Help Session 1 [B05] | ppt | Updated: 31 Oct 05 | |
| Help Session 2 [B07] | ppt | Updated: 7 Oct 07 | Help Session 2 [B06] | ppt | Updated: 8 Nov 06 |
| Help Session 2 [B05] | ppt | Updated: 9 Nov 05 | |
| Help Session 3 [B07] | ppt | Updated: | 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 |
| Introduction: Network Definitions and Classification | ppt | Updated: 17 Oct 07 | Internet, HTTP and DNS Examples | ppt | Updated: 18 Oct 07 | TCP Sockets | ppt | Updated: 18 Oct 07 | Network Performance Measures | ppt | Updated: 25 Oct 07 | OSI Reference Model | ppt | Updated: 19 Oct 07 | Network Switching | ppt | Updated: 28 Oct 07 | Sample Network Delay Problems | ppt | Updated: 28 Oct 07 | Physical Layer | ppt | Updated: 29 Oct 07 | Data Encoding | ppt | Updated: 30 Oct 07 | Transmission Media | ppt | Updated: 2 Nov 07 | Transmission Errors | ppt | Updated: 6 Nov 07 | Bit and Byte Stuffing | ppt | Updated: 4 Nov 07 | Data Link Layer | ppt | Updated: 9 Nov 07 | Local Area Networks | ppt | Updated: 7 Nov 07 | Ethernet | ppt | Updated: 7 Nov 07 | Wireless LANs | ppt | Updated: 19 Nov 07 | Computer Network Performance Evaluation |
Video |
Updated: 16 Nov 06 | "Characterization of 802.11 Wireless Networks in the Home" | ppt | Updated: 26 Nov 07 | "Distributed Dynamic Channel Selection in Chaotic Wireless Networks" | ppt | Updated: 25 Nov 07 | Bridges | ppt | Updated: 26 Nov 07 | Token Ring and FDDI | ppt | Updated: 28 Nov 07 | Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet | ppt | Updated: 2 Dec 07 | SONET | ppt | Updated: 30 Nov 07 | ATM | ppt | Updated: 30 Nov 07 | Network Layer | ppt | Updated: 7 Dec 07 | TCP Sliding Windows | ppt | Updated: 3 Dec 07 | TCP Congestion Control | ppt | Updated: 3 Dec 07 | Distributed Denial of Service Tutorial | ppt | Updated: |
Last modified: 10 December 2007
Bob Kinicki