Spring 2016
ENSC 833: PERFORMANCE OF COMMUNICATION NETWORKS

Assignment #4:

Read:
  • Kurose and Ross: Chapter 3: Transport Layer.
  • Walrand and Varaiya: Chapter 3: Packet-Switched Networks.
  • Walrand and Varaiya: Chapter 4: The Internet and TCP/IP Networks.

  • If you have not already done:
    Update the abstract describing the topic of your final project. (Please email the paragraph in plain ASCII format to ljilja at cs.sfu.ca.)

  • Complete working on the ns-2 Tutorials:
        IX. Running Wireless Simulations in ns
        X. Creating Wired-cum-Wireless and MobileIP Simulations
        XI. Generating traffic-connection and node-movement files for large wireless scenarios

  • Submit printouts illustrating each step of the ns-2 tutorial.
    Include time-stamps on the printouts.
    Briefly describe the main steps.
    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 project proposal(s) to ljilja at cs.sfu.ca.
         Include: propsed project title(s), the team number, full names (last name, first name), and email addresses of team members.
  • Browse through past projects. Note: Past ENSC 833, ENSC 835, ENSC 894, and ENSC 895 projects have been submitted by graduate students.
    Those links are provided with the intention to generate ideas and elicit your interest    .

    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: Janaury 29, 2016
    Due: February 7, 2016

    Last modified: Sun Jan 31 17:30:34 PST 2016.