CSCI 4403 Spring 2000
Assignments

Assignments will be posted here. An attempt will be made to keep this list up to date with the class. However, if an assignment is made in class then it is assigned, whether it appears here or not! In general, you are responsible for any material that is covered in the readings or in lecture. Other on-line information includes

Study Guides

  1. Study Guide for Exam 4.
  2. Study Guide for Exam 3.
  3. Study Guide for Exam 2.
  4. Study Guide for Exam 1.

Assigned Textbook Readings

  1. Chapter 1. all sections.
  2. pages 486-487 in the text on Berkeley Sockets
  3. Chapter 2. all sections except p. 135-139, 2.6.3, 2.7, 2.8.
  4. pages 750-753 in the text on the distribution network for multimedia
  5. Chapter 3. all sections except 3.5, 3.6.3.
  6. Chapter 4.
  7. Chapter 5. not including the material on congestion control or routing in ATM networks
  8. Chapter 7. overview on secret key and public key encryption only, and the material on Kerberos
Outside Assigned Readings
    Outside material will be given from time to time throughout the semester. You will be responsible for this material on homework and exams.

  1. bandwidth vs. latency
  2. Tutorial on socket programming.
  3. The Southwestern Bell Internet at Home products pages, including the information about dialup access, ISDN, and dsl services.
Written Homework
    Written homework should be done in your best handwriting or use a word processor. If it cannot be read it will not be graded. The due dates and points possible for each assignment will be given.

  1. Homework 1, due on Monday, February 7.
  2. Homework 2, due on Friday, February 25.
  3. Data Link Protocol Exercise, due on Monday, March 6.
  4. Homework 3, due on Friday, April 7.
Programming and Applied Exercises
    Programming and applied exercises will be assigned throughout the semester!

  1. Ping exercise. Due Monday, January 31.
  2. Client/server programming exercise using the BSD sockets library, due Wednesday, February 16.
  3. Sniffing Exercise, due before Spring Break.
  4. Semester project, due April 19.

Enrichment Readings

    You are not responsible for this material on quizzes and exams. This material may help you in understanding various network concepts, or may discuss relevent social or current technology issues. If it appears that an article is particularly relevent, it may be moved to the "responsible" category, with appropriate notice.

  1. Tutorial on ISDN from Southwestern Bell
  2. Unix Guide
  3. Cari's study guide on physical layer material.
  4. A network primer from Novell (long).

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