Spring 2016
ENSC 833: PERFORMANCE OF COMMUNICATION NETWORKS

Assignment #2:

Read:
  • Kurose and Ross: Chapter 1: Computer Networks and the Internet
  • Walrand and Varaiya: Chapter 1: Overview

  • Begin working on the ns-2 Tutorials:
        I. Introduction
        II. Finding Documentation
        III. The Basics
        IV. The first Tcl script
        V. Making it more interesting

  • Submit printouts illustrating each step of the ns-2 tutorial.
    Briefly describe the main steps.
    Include time-stamps on the printouts.
    Limit your submission to ten pages (excluding the cover page).

  • Include the cover page. It should only include course title (ENSC 833: NETWORK PROTOCOLS AND PERFORMANCE), term (Spring 2016), assignment number, your full name (last name, first name), your SFU ID, and your SFU email address. This page should not be counted in the required page limit.

  • Send your project teams (please include student IDs, full names, and email addresses) to ljilja at cs.sfu.ca.
  • Prepare a paragraph describing the topic of your final project.
  • Browse through past projects:

    Graduate courses:
        ENSC 894 Spring '15 projects
        ENSC 894 Spring '14 projects
        ENSC 835 Spring '13 projects
        ENSC 894 Spring '12 projects
        ENSC 835 Spring '11 projects
        ENSC 895 Spring '10 projects
        ENSC 833/CMPT 885 Spring '09 projects
        ENSC 833/CMPT 885 Spring '08 projects
        ENSC 833/CMPT 885 Spring '06 projects
        ENSC 833/CMPT 885 Fall '03 projects
        ENSC 833/CMPT 885 Spring '03 projects
        ENSC 835/CMPT 885 Spring '02 projects
        ENSC 833/CMPT 885 Spring '01 projects
        ENSC 894/CMPT 885 Spring '00 projects

    Texts:
    J. Kurose and K. W. Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, 6/e, Addison Wesley, 2013.
    J. Walrand and P. Varaiya, High-performance Communication Networks, Second edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2000.

    Posted: January 15, 2016
    Due: January 24, 2016

    Last modified: Sun Jan 17 22:09:49 PST 2016.