MIDTERM EXAMS:
Thursday, February 13, 2025, 16:30 - 18:20, WMC 2532
Thursday, April 3, 2025, 16:30 - 18:20, WMC 2532

FINAL EXAM:
, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 19:00 - 22:00, WMC 3510

FAS policy on mid-terms and finals is described in Section 5.7 of the FAS Handbook
Academic honesty and plagiarism

PROJECT REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS:

Project teams are due January 12, 2025 (midnight: 11:59 PM + 1 minute).

Project proposal(s) are due January 26, 2025 (midnight: 11:59 PM + 1 minute).

Project title, abstract, and a list of five references are due February 9, 2025 (midnight: 11:59 PM + 1 minute).

Web page describing your project and including the list of five references is due February 16, 2025 (midnight: 11:59 PM + 1 minute).

Interim report is due March 2, 2025 (midnight: 11:59 PM + 1 minute).

Project class presentations will be held in class on April 8, 2025.

The following files are due on Friday, April 18, 2025 (midnight: 11:59 PM + 1 minute):

• Presentation slides (Power Point and PDF files) of your final project,
• URL for the web pages of your final project, and
• Final written report (LaTEX or MS Word file and PDF file) of your final project.

The final project grading policy
The final project grading form

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GRADING:
Assignments 20%, Midterm exam 1 10%, Midterm exam 2 10%, Final exam 25%, project class presentation 10%, and final project report 25%.
Click here to see your scores and midterm exam 1, midterm exam 2, final exam, and overall scores distribution charts.

Average letter to grade mapping (tentative):
Standard SFU grade system

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RESOURCES: Conflict resolution

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TEXTBOOKS:

Recommended reading:

J. F. Kurose and K. W. Ross, Computer Networking, 8th Edition, Pearson, 2021.
     Interactive end-of-chapter exercises, Supplement to Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, 8th edition.

A. Leon-Garcia and I. Widjaja, Communication Networks: Fundamental Concepts and Key Architectures, 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill, 2004. Errata page.

Other sources (in alphabetical order)

D. Bertsekas and R. Gallager, Data Networks, Second edition, Prentice Hall, 1992.

M. De Prycker, Asynchronous Transfer Mode: Solutions for Broadband ISDN, Ellis Horwood, 1991.

I. Katzela, Modeling and Simulating Communication Networks, A Hands-on Approach Using OPNET, Prentice Hall, 1999.

S. Keshav, Engineering Approach to Computer Networking: ATM Networks, the Internet, and the Telephone Network, Addison Wesley, 1997.

L. L. Peterson and B. Davie, Computer Networks, A Systems Approach, 5th edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2012.

T. G. Robertazzi, Computer Networks and Systems, Queuing Theory and Performance Evaluation, Third edition, Springer Verlag, 2000.

J. Walrand and P. Varaiya, High-performance Communication Networks, 2/e, Elsevier, 2000.

J. Walrand, Communication Networks, A First Course, 2/e, McGraw-Hill, 1998.

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JOURNALS:

IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials

IEEE Communications Magazine

IEEE Network, The magazine of global information exchange

ACM Computer Communication Review

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

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SCHEDULE:
Lectures:
Tuesday 16:30 - 18:20, WMC 2532
Thursday 16:30 - 18:20, WMC 2532

Tutorials:
Thursday 17:30 - 18:20, AQ 5008

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PROFESSOR:

• Ljiljana Trajkovic
  ASB 10835
  Tel.: (778) 782-3998
  ljilja at cs.sfu.ca
  
• Office hours:
  Tuesdays 18:30 - 19:30, WMC 2532
  Thursdays 18:30 - 19:30, WMC 2532

TEACHING ASSISTANT:

• Soroush Oraki
  soroush_oraki at sfu dot ca
  Office hours:
  Mondays 14:00 - 15:00, ASB 10868
  Wednesdays 14:00 - 15:00, ASB 10868
  

COMPUTING HELP:

• FASnet login issues: IT Services Research Computing, itshelp at sfu.ca

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PROJECTS:
ENSC 427 Spring 2025 project teams
ENSC 427 Spring 2025 project proposals
ENSC 427 Spring 2025 projects
ENSC 427 Spring 2025 project presentations schedule

Instructions for in class presentations of your ENSC 427 final projects
Instructions for writing ENSC 427 final project reports

IEEE Author Center:
   IEEE Author Tools
   Create your IEEE Article
   IEEE Editorial Style Manual

Past course web pages are located at: http://www.ensc.sfu.ca/~ljilja/teaching.html

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SOFTWARE TOOLS:

Get familiar with Linux/CentOS. The following sites have links to useful Unix tutorials and documentation:
    http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-unix-commands-cheat-sheets.html
    http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.html
    http://wiki.centos.org/HowTo

To run ns-3 on a PC running MS operating system, download:
    Option 1 (easier): Downlaod Ubuntu virtual machine VirtualBox in order to run the virtual machine.
    Option 2: cygwin

Ptolemy

Omnet++

S-PLUS for Unix

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Wireshark network protocol analyzer

Quagga Routing Suite

GNU Zebra: Free routing software

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TRAFFIC TRACES:
Various sites with collected traffic traces

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)
Email messages with hints and answers to some frequently asked questions.
(Check FAQ pages from prior ENSC 427 offerings for useful hints.)
FAQ in 2025

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WEB SITES OF INTEREST:

Communication Networks Laboratory

Research with OPNET at SFU

Previous offerings of ENSC 427, ENSC 833, ENSC 835, ENSC 894, and ENSC 895

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Acronyms:

Dictionary of Acronyms in Communications and Informatics (DACI)

http://www.csrstds.com/acro-a-d.html
General references:

What is page
Documents:
Internet Requests for Comments (RFC) site:

IETF
Daily news of interest:

Wired News: DoS: Defense Is the Best Offense
Fun things:

RFC 1121

RFC 1149

RFC 2100

UC Berkeley EECS20: Structure and Interpretation of Signals and Systems

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INFO:

• RECORDING of ENSC 427 LECTURES:
  Audio recordings of ENSC 427 lectures is not available this term.

• ENSC 427 URL:
  http://www.ensc.sfu.ca/people/faculty/ljilja/ENSC427/

• ENSC 427 MAILING LIST:
  ensc-427 at sfu.ca

• ENSC 427 Spring 2025 CANVAS sites:
  ENSC427_Spring_2025

• SAMPLES of PAST ENSC 427 EXAMS:
  List of PDF files

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TOPICS WEEK IN REVIEW ASSIGNMENTS EXAMS TEXTBOOKS

SCHEDULE STAFF PROJECTS TOOLS WEB SITES INFO

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Created by
Ljiljana Trajkovic
ljilja at cs.sfu.ca

Last modified: Tue 22 Apr 2025 19:36:35 PDT.