Spring 2016
ENSC 833: PERFORMANCE OF COMMUNICATION NETWORKS

Assignment #3:

Read:
  • Kurose and Ross: Chapter 2: Application Layer
  • Walrand and Varaiya: Chapter 2: Networks Services and Layered Architectures
  • S. Floyd and V. Paxson, "Difficulties in simulating the Internet," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 392 - 403, August 2001.

  • Submit a paragraph describing the topic of your final project (include a working title).
    Please email the paragraph in plain ASCII format to ljilja at cs.sfu.ca.

  • Continue working on the ns-2 Tutorials:
        VI. Network dynamics
        VII. A new protocol for ns
        VIII. Creating Output Files for Xgraph

  • 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.

    • 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 22, 2016
    Due: January 31, 2016

    Last modified: Sun Jan 24 23:03:19 PST 2016.