Computer Networks Course

WPI Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Computer Science Department

CS4514 Computer Networks - Term B03
Instructor: Bob Kinicki

Notice to Students
All files that are updated in 2003 are current.
Those files last updated in 2002 are acting as placeholders.
These files will be improved and updated as the course proceeds.

General and Historic Course Information
Course Information and Procedures | Academic Honesty Policies | Student Disabilities : last modified 20 Oct 03
Required Text: Computer Networks, Fourth Edition, Andrew Tanenbaum | Networks Reference Textbooks
Course Syllabus (pdf) : last modified 23 Oct 03
Class List (pdf) : last modified 3 Nov 03

Programming Assignments
Program 1 (pdf) :last modified 30 Oct 03
Program 2 (pdf) :last modified 23 Oct 03
Program 3 (pdf) :last modified 25 Oct 03

 

Office Hours Schedule
  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Professor (FL135)          
Bob Kinicki 8:15-9:00 a.m. 10:00-10:55 a.m.     3:00-3:45 p.m.
TAs FLA22          
Mingzhe Li 7:00-9:00 p.m.   3:00-5:00 p.m.    
Choong-Soo Lee 3:00-5:00 p.m.   1:00-3:00 p.m.    
Song Wang   7:00-9:00 p.m.   7:00-9:00 p.m.  

Old Exams

Mid Term Exams B02 (pdf) Answer Question 11 B02 (pdf) C02 (pdf) Answer Question 11 C02 (pdf) B03 Mid Term Review (pdf)
Second Exams B02 (pdf)        
Final Exams B02 (pdf) C02 (pdf) B01 (pdf) B03 Final Review (pdf)

Homework Problems

Homework 1 (pdf)

Help Session Slides

Help Session 1 [B03] pdf ppt Updated: 5 Nov 03
Help Session 1 [B02] pdf ppt Updated: 28 Oct 02
Help Session 1 [C02] pdf   Updated: 11 Oct 02
Help Session 2 [B03] pdf ppt Updated: 24 Nov 03
Help Session 2 [B02] pdf ppt Updated: 25 Nov 02
Help Session 2 [C02] pdf ppt Updated: 11 Oct 02
Help Session 3 [B03] pdf ppt Updated: 8 Dec 03
Help Session 3 [B02] pdf ppt Updated: 6 Dec 02
Help Session 3 [C02] pdf ppt Updated: 11 Oct 02

Course Lecture Slides

Introduction: Network Definitions and Classification pdf ppt Updated: 23 Oct 03
Network Performance Measures pdf ppt Updated: 23 Oct 03
Network Switching pdf ppt Updated: 23 Oct 03
Sample Network Delay Problems pdf ppt Updated: 18 Nov 03
HTTP and DNS Examples pdf ppt Updated: 6 Nov 03
OSI Reference Model pdf ppt Updated: 29 Oct 03
TCP Sockets pdf ppt Updated: 31 Oct 03
Physical Layer pdf ppt Updated: 5 Nov 03
Data Encoding pdf ppt Updated: 5 Nov 03
Transmission Media pdf ppt Updated: 5 Nov 03
Transmission Errors pdf ppt Updated: 10 Nov 03
Bit and Byte Stuffing pdf ppt Updated: 10 Nov 03
Data Link Layer pdf ppt Updated: 17 Nov 03
Local Area Networks pdf ppt Updated: 30 Nov 03
Ethernet pdf ppt Updated: 2 Dec 03
Bridges pdf ppt Updated: 1 Dec 03
Token Ring and FDDI pdf ppt Updated: 3 Dec 03
Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet pdf ppt Updated: 3 Dec 03
Wireless LANs pdf ppt Updated: 7 Dec 03
SONET pdf ppt Updated: 8 Dec 03
ATM pdf ppt Updated: 8 Dec 03
Network Layer pdf ppt Updated: 10 Dec 03
TCP Sliding Windows pdf ppt Updated: 14 Dec 03
TCP Congestion Control pdf ppt Updated: 14 Dec 03

REK's Home Page

Last modified: 14 December 2003

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