CISE Department
University of Florida

This page has important information related to this course. Through it, you can access the assignments and their keys as they become available. Also available will be any new developments in the course.

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	Instructor
	Teaching Assistants
	Basic Information
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	Apr. 22: Group Project Presentations for Team #20 (Leader Keshul Agrawal), and Team #21 (Leader Anuya Balutkar).
	Apr. 19: Group Project Presentations for Team #18 (Leader Nitin Agrahara Ravikumar), and Team #19 (Leader Aparna Ananthanayanan).
	Apr. 17: Group Project Presentations for Team #15 (Leader Chandrasekaran Ramanathan), Team #16 (Leader Divya Ginjupalli), and Team #17 (Leader Manas Gupta).
	Apr. 15: Group Project Presentations for Team #12 (Leader Aashwin Kumaar Goda), Team #13 (Leader Tirumala Naidu Tumati), and Team #14 (Leader Vikram S Bisht).
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	Apr. 12: Midterm Exam #2 will take place today.
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	Apr. 10: Group Project Presentations for Team #09 (Leader Sai Krishna Vadrevu), Team #10 (Leader Prachi Maheshwari), and Team #11 (Leader Ravi Kiran Nety).
	Apr. 08: Group Project Presentations for Team #06 (Leader Bhaswar Benerjee), Team #07 (Leader Yi Xu), and Team #08 (Leader Dhananjay Bhirud).
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	Apr. 05: For all team leaders: please sign up the demonstration slot (i.e., Apr. 29-30) for the implementation part of your term project. Please be sure to include your name and team number.
	Apr. 05: Solution Key for Assignment #3 (Mean=94.84 [out of 100]; StdDev=6.27). Students with last name [A..K] should pick it up from Yibin, and the rest of the students should pick it up from Yilin. Thanks,
	Apr. 05: Group Project Presentations for Team #04 (Leader Nachiket Hiralal Patil), and Team #05 (Leader Bhimender Arora).
	Apr. 03: Group Project Presentations for Team #01 (Leader Kushal Kewlani), Team #02 (Leader Rahul Sharma), and Team #03 (Leader Akshay Dhokale).
	Apr. 01 (Paper#09): "Experimental Evaluation of TCP Protocols for High-Speed Networks", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 15, No. 5, Oct. 2007. (Lecture Slides - PPT version) (Lecture Slides - PDF version)
	Mar. 29 (Paper#08): "TCP Smart Framing: A Segmentation Algorithm to Reduce TCP Latency", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 13, No. 2, Apr. 2005. (Lecture Slides - PPT version) (Lecture Slides - PDF version)
	Mar. 27: Since we need to cover 3 group presentations, we need 60 minutes of lecture time starting April 03. Please arrive early thus we can start the first presentation at 12:45pm SHARP, and hope we will finish the third presentation by 1:45pm SHARP. Thanks,
	Mar. 27 (Paper#07): "Impact of Hot-Potato Routing Changes in IP Networks", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 16, No. 6, Dec. 2008. (Lecture Slides - PPT version) (Lecture Slides - PDF version)
	Mar. 25 (Paper#06): "Handoff Algorithms in Dynamic Spreading WCDMA System Supporting Multimedia Traffic", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 21, Issue 10, Dec. 2003 (Lecture Slides - PPT version) (Lecture Slides - PDF version)
	Mar. 22: The range to be covered for the Midterm Exam #2 will be (1) Page 247 to Page 578 (i.e., Chapter 4, 5 and 6) of the textbook, and (2) 8 journal papers (i.e., Paper#1-Paper#8).
	Mar. 22 (Paper#5): "Multimedia support for wireless W-CDMA with dynamic spreading", ACM Journal of Wireless Networks, Vol. 8, Issue 4, July 2002. (Lecture Slides - PPT version) (Lecture Slides - PDF version)
	Mar. 20 (Paper#04): "Throughput Analysis of IEEE802.11 Multi-Hop Ad Hoc Networks", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 15, No. 02, Apr. 2007. (Lecture Slides - PPT version) (Lecture Slides - PDF version)
	Mar. 20: Assignment#3 dues on Wednesday Mar. 27, 2013.
	Mar. 18 (Paper#03): "System Study of the Wireless Multimedia Ad-hoc Network based on IEEE 802.11g", International Journal of Security and Its Applications, Vol. 2, No. 2, Apr. 2008. (Lecture Slides - PPT version) (Lecture Slides - PDF version)
	Mar. 15 (Paper#02): "Third-Party Handshake Protocol for Efficient Peer Discovery and Route Optimization in IEEE 802.15.3 WPANs", ACM Mobile Networks and Applications, Vol. 11, May 2006. (Lecture Slides - PPT version) (Lecture Slides - PDF version)
	Mar. 15: Solution Key for Midterm Exam#1 (Mean=42.30 [out of 50]; StdDev=4.71). Students with last name [A..K] should pick it up from Yibin, and the rest of the students should pick it up from Yilin. Thanks,
	Mar. 15: Solution Key for Assignment #2 (Mean=97.0 [out of 100]; StdDev=4.47). Students with last name [A..K] should pick it up from Yibin, and the rest of the students should pick it up from Yilin. Thanks,
	Mar. 13: Attendance Check #2 is performed for 12:50pm-1:40pm lecture. It only takes out 1 point of your final score. Thanks,
	Mar. 13 (Paper#01): ``Supporting Multimedia Communication over A Gigabit Ethernet Network", International Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems and Networks, 4(2): 102--115, Jun. 2001 (Lecture Slides - PPT version) (Lecture Slides - PDF version)
	Mar. 11: The second midterm exam will be on Wednesday Apr. 12, 2013. Midterm Exam #2 will be in-class, OPEN-book, and OPEN-note (but no access to computer and Internet) with 50 minutes. Exam will start at 12:50pm sharp and finish at 1:40pm sharp. The range to be covered will be announced later.
	Mar. 11: Since each project presentation can be done within 20 minutes only, you can have one or two member(s) to make the presentation on behalf of the whole group. All members of a group will be assigned with the same score based on the presentation performance.
	Mar. 11: The group presentation dates have been determined. Each group only has 20 minutes to present their project. There is no need to cover the implementation part (since this part will be graded by the TAs) in the presentation.
	Feb. 20: Lecture Slides of Review on Chapter 6 (Powerpoint Format) (PDF Format)
	Feb. 20: Sample Questions for Midterm Exam
	Feb. 18: Attendance Check #1 is performed for 12:50pm-1:40pm lecture. It only takes out 1 point of your final score. Thanks,
	Feb. 15: Assignment#2 dues on Friday Feb. 22, 2013.
	Feb. 15: The range to be covered for the Midterm Exam #1 will be from Page 1 to Page 480 (i.e., up to Chapter 5) of the textbook.
	Feb. 15: Solution Key for Assignment #1 (Mean=99.2 [out of 100]; StdDev=1.67). Students with last name [A..K] should pick it up from Yibin, and the rest of the students should pick it up from Yilin. Thanks,
	Feb. 08: Lecture Slides of Review on Chapter 5 (Powerpoint Format) (PDF Format)
	Feb. 04: Part 2 of Review on Data Link Layer (Powerpoint Format) (PDF Format)
	Jan. 31: Due to the Career Development Workshop and Career Showcase, the deadline of Assignment #1 is postponed to Friday Feb. 08. Thanks,
	Jan. 30: Suggested topics/areas for your term projects
	Jan. 30: Assignment#1 dues on Friday Feb. 08, 2013.
	Jan. 28: The first midterm exam will be on Wednesday Feb. 27. Midterm Exam #1 will be in-class, closed-book, and closed-note with 50 minutes. Exam will start at 12:50pm sharp and finish at 1:40pm sharp. The range to be covered will be announced later.
	Jan. 28: Term Project Requirements and Deadlines (Powerpoint Format) (PDF Format)
	Jan. 25: Lecture Slides of Review on Data Link Layer (Powerpoint Format) (PDF Format)
	Jan. 18: Survey on the student background dues on Wednesday Jan. 23. Please print it out, fill-in and return the hard copy in Jan. 23 class.
	Jan. 18: Due to the university holiday, we will not have class on Monday Jan. 21 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)
	Jan. 16: Sorry that I made some typos on Mr. Shen's office hours on the syllabus. His office hours should be 3pm-4pm on Tuesday, Thursdays and Fridays. Thanks,
	Jan. 09: Lecture Slides of Review on Chapter 1 and 2 (Powerpoint Format) (PDF Format)
	Jan. 07: Course Syllabus

Textbook:	(1) Computer Networks by Tanenbaum , Latest Edition, Prentice Hall. (2) A Collection of research papers will be distributed to students.
Examination:	Two Midterm exams No make-up exam.
Assignments and Project:	One Term Project: Details will be announced later. 3-4 Written Assignments. Oral Presentation(s). Assignments and project are due at the beginning of the classes. No late assignments/project.
Grading Policy:	20% Assignments; 20% Term Project; 10% Oral Presentations; 40% Midterm Exams; 10% Attendance Check Records;