What's New?

• 12-16-2000

  Mark Huang will be in Monday 2 - 4:30 PM. If you want to see your final exam, please find him in 591 PGH or 547 PGH (he might work on upgrading Networking lab).

• 12-12-2000

  Okay. The grading for final is over. You can check your grade here. We are not going to post letter grade, so please check VIP or email Mark Huang at tihuang at cs . uh . edu to get your letter grade if it's urgent. If you want to look at your final exam, Mark Huang will be in 2 - 5 PM, Wed., Dec. 13.

  Dr. Subhlok will be away for a month. Please contact Mark Huang if you have question regarding your grade or this course.

  Wish you a great winter break and happy holiday.

• 12-07-2000

  If you see "*" in your grade for assignment #4, please come by this afternoon (2 - 5 PM) to see TA to demo your program or resolve some problems with your assignment. If you don't show up, TA will grade it as is. If you can't come, please contact TA (xjiang at cs . uh . edu) to find an alternative plan.

• 12-05-2000

  Grades for Assignment #4 have been added to grade sheet.

  TA will maintain her office hours this Thursday (12/07). If you have question regarding your assignments, please send her an e-mail and let her know you are coming. And this is likely your last chance to meet TA for the semester.

• 12-01-2000

  TA sent me updated grade sheet reflecting changes made to assignment #2. Please check for any error.

• 11-30-2000

  TA couldn't come to her office hours today due to car problem. She will be in next Monday (Dec. 4) 2 - 5 PM. Send her an e-mail and let her you are coming.

• 11-29-2000

  The syllabus of final exam is posted. Dr. Subhlok will keep his Monday office hours next week, but not necessary on Tu/Th office hours. Mark Huang will keep his Monday and Wednesday office hours next week.

  Please check your grade and report any any mistake. We will use that to calculate your final grade.

• 11-22-2000

  FAQ for assignment #4 has been updated. And please read "How to Submit" section for latest instruction. Please note that you don't need to turn in a hard copy of your README.txt, since we had changed deadline to Friday and no one will come to school on Friday or this weekend to collect your printout.

• 11-20-2000

  PDF file for Chapter 5a is posted.

• 11-17-2000

  Assignment No 4 can be submitted until noon Friday, Nov 24 without penalty. Submissions after that will be penalized 20 points (out of 200). No submission will be accepted after noon, Monday, Nov 27.

  Sorry. Last night I accidently overwrote this page with COSC 6377 project page. I will try to recover it as much as I can. If you had a printout of this page on Nov. 14, 15 or 16, please bring it to class so I can recover from it. Thanks.

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General Information

• Syllabus - General Information (instructor names, textbook, grading policy, etc.) (last update: 09/06/2000)

Assignments:

• Assignment #1 - due on Sep. 13, 2000.
• Assignment #2 - Socket programming - due on Oct. 16, 2000.
• Assignment #3 - due on Nov. 1, 2000.
• Assignment #4 - Configurable Router Simulation - due on Nov. 22, 2000.

Examinations:

• 1st Midterm Exam: Wed., Sep. 27th, 2000

  60-minute exam, closed book/notes; basically cover chapter 1 and 2 (excludes 1.9 and 2.6 - 2.8).
  Practice problems:

  • Chapter 1: Review Questions; Problems 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7;
  • Chapter 2: Review Questions; Problems 1, 4, and 5; Discussion Questions 4

• 2nd Midterm Exam: Wed., Nov. 1st, 2000.

  60-minute exam, closed book/note; basically cover chapter 3 to 4.3.
  Practice problems:

  • Review Questions for chapter 3 and sections 4.1-4.4;
  • Problems 17, 21, & 22 of chapter 3 and problems 3 & 4 of chapter 4.

• Final Exam: 2 - 5 PM, Dec. 11th, 2000.

  Comprehensive. Open book / notes. 100+ points. Should be less than 2 hours. Type of questions is toward problem solving which is similar to Midterm #2 (in respect to fact-oriented questions in Midterm #1). Material after Midterm #2 weights about 1/3.

  • Chapter 1: 1.1 - 1.8
  • Chapter 2: 2.1 - 2.7
  • Chapter 3 (for GoBack N, SR, TCP, and UDP, you only need to know the basic)
  • Chapter 4: 4.1 - 4.6 (for 4.6, you only need to know basic of a router and arouting table)
  • Chapter 5: 5.1 - 5.8
  • Network mask: covered in the class, but not much in textbook. Lecture note should be sufficient. If you like to read more, Chapter 5 of TCP/IP Protocol Suite is a good reference.

  A word of advice: Although it's an open book exam, you should prepare the exam as it's a closed book one. You won't have time to study and look for answers in books during exam.

  Practice problems:

  • All review questions in chapter 1 - 5 (except the part we didn't cover).
  • Work on as many problems in textbook as you can.

Grade

Overhead Slides

For PDF, you will need Acrobat or Acrobat Reader from Adobe.

• Chapter 1, part A (old, PowerPoint) (1,179,648 bytes)
• Chapter 1, part B (old, PowerPoint) (215,552 bytes)
• Chapter 1 (updated 08/28/2000, PDF) (622,776 bytes)
• Chapter 2, part A (updated 09/14/2000, PDF) (158,696 bytes)
• Chapter 2, part B (updated 09/25/2000, PDF) (166,361 bytes)
• Chapter 2, supplement - DNS (updated 09/20/2000, PDF) (77,415 bytes) from Chapter 16 of "TCP/IP Protocol Suite".
• Chapter 2, supplement - Socket Interface (updated 09/25/2000, PDF) (46,006 bytes) from Chapter 24 of "TCP/IP Protocol Suite".
• Chapter 3, part A (updated 10/10/2000, PDF) (997,824 bytes)
• Chapter 4, part A (updated 10/26/2000, PDF) (315,265 bytes)
• Chapter 4, part BC (updated 11/02/2000, PDF) (218,812 bytes)
• Chapter 5, part A (updated 11/20/2000, PDF) (464,454 bytes)
• Chapter 5, part B (updated 11/26/2000, PDF) (260,001 bytes)
• Chapter 5, part C (updated 11/26/2000, PDF) (298,064 bytes)

Last modified: December 16, 2000.