Spring 2009
ENSC 835: COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
CMPT 885: SPECIAL TOPICS: COMMUNICATION NETWORKS

Assignment #9:

Read:
  • Kurose and Ross: Chapter 5: The Link Layer and Local Area Networks.
  • Walrand and Varaiya: Chapter 6: Asynchronous Transfer Mode.
  • T. Griffin and B. Premore, "An experimental analysis of BGP convergence time," in Proc. ICNP, Riverside, CA, Nov. 2001, pp. 53-61.
  • A. Feldmann, H. Kong, O. Maennel, and A. Tudor, "Measuring BGP pass-through times," in Proc. Passive and Active Measurement Workshop (PAM), Antibes Juan-les-Pins, France, Apr. 2004, pp. 267-277.

  • Prepare an interim report: due March 15, 2009 (midnight).
        Read: Instructions for writing ENSC 835/CMPT 885 final project reports.

  • 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

    Texts:
    J. F. Kurose and K. W. Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, 4/e
    J. Walrand and P. Varaiya, High-performance Communication Networks, Second edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2000.

    Posted: March 6, 2009
    Due: March 15, 2009

    Last modified: Friday, March 6, 2009 8:49:00 PM PST.