| Date | Announcement |
| 5/7/2009 | Please refer to the demo instruction for lab #2: click here. The room for the demo is EECS 2-209 (TA office). |
| 5/6/2009 | [TA office hour] TA will hold extra office hours before the final: Friday 3-4pm, Monday 11-12pm. |
| 5/6/2009 | [Lab #2 Extension] Lab #2 is extended to Friday 11am, May 8th. There will be no more extension. |
| 5/1/2009 | [Lab #2 Grading] Lab #2 grading will be done on a basis of 30-minute demonstration of each group in front of TA. For this, each group needs to send an email to TA with 3 preferable time slots (to avoid conflicts) for the demonstration. The time slot is a 30-minute interval basis and should be between 10am to 5pm from Fri (May 8) to Wed (May 13), except weekend. |
| 4/23/2009 | For those who did not get the midterm exam papers, you can get them at the TA office hours (M 2-3, W 4-5). |
| 4/23/2009 | Homework #4 correction: In the question 2(d), it should be "switches" instead of "bridges". |
| 4/21/2009 | Homework #4 goes out: [pdf] and [doc]. It is due at 11:00am on Tuesday, May 5th. |
| 4/9/2009 | Since some students pointed out a potential problem related to owner tracking of the peer list, we add a message for explicit notification: a downloading peer sends GETFILEDONE to the owner to tell that it has successfully downloaded. Revised document for lab #2 is available here. |
| 4/8/2009 | Project 2 goes out. In addition, we open project 1 code. The lab is due at 11:00am May 7 (Thursday). Good luck! |
| 4/2/2009 | Homework #3 goes out: [pdf] and [doc]. It is due at 11:00am on Thursday, April 16th. For question #4, you will need to run dijkstra and DV on the graphs. |
| 3/27/2009 | Yesterday slides (including midterm review) are posted. In addition, there will be an extra office hours at 11-12am in the midterm day (Tue, March 31). |
| 3/5/2009 | IMPORTANT: The midterm date has been changed to March 31st (Tuesday). |
| 3/2/2009 | Due to a power problem, today's TA office hours will be at 4-240 instead of 2-209. Since the project is due at tomorrow, the office hours will be extended until 5pm today. |
| 2/28/2009 | For project 1: Clip playing problems are most likely due to driver issues and there will be no deduction for these problems. |
| 2/23/2009 |
There will be progress check for project 1 this week. The progress check is to have a time (~5 min) for you to show code and to explain where your are. It is NOT intended as a "debugging" session but a status update. Plan on seeing either the professor or the TA in their office hours. Extra office hours (Professor): Tues/Thur 2-4:45pm, Weds 9-10:45am. Extra office hours (TA): Wed 1-5pm, Fri 3-5pm. |
| 2/23/2009 | Due to crowdedness of the TA room, the TA office hours will be changed to MW 4-5pm for Thursday. There is no change on Monday (2-3pm). |
| 2/20/2009 | I found the response code values in Protocol.java are different from the ones in the document. Please follow the document. You can use a new Protocol.java instead. Sorry for this confusion. |
| 2/19/2009 | Today's material is available here. |
| 2/17/2009 | We will have a time to discuss the project 1 at the end of the class on Thursday (~15 min). |
| 2/17/2009 | Homework #2 goes out: [pdf] and [doc]. It is due at 11:00am on Thursday, March 5th. |
| 2/12/2009 | For a compilation problem, new packages are uploaded; You can get the new packages by clicking the same links below. The packages have ".tar.gz" extension instead of ".zip" extension. You can decompress it by "tar xvfz file-name.tar.gz." |
| 2/10/2009 | The assignment submission link is working. |
| 2/9/2009 | Project 1 goes out. You can use a provided code as your base line. Additionally, our binary code is provided for your test. The lab is due at 11:00am March 3 (Tuesday). Good luck! |
| 2/9/2009 | The assignment submission link has been added in the left. You can submit your homeworks and projects by this link. |
| 2/5/2009 | Next week we will talk about socket programming (Section 2.7) in addition to Chapter 3. |
| 2/4/2009 | A new section is created in the left: "Interesting Reading" lists articles helpful for your study on computer networks. |
| 2/4/2009 | The MS word version of the homework #1 is available here: [Homework #1 MS word version] |
| 2/2/2009 | Some nice protocol animations. You can find some useful applets, e.g. transmission and propagation delay, HTTP delay estimation including non-persistent and persistent connections, etc. |
| 2/2/2009 | For the traceroute question in the homework 1, if you have any problems with the site "www.cnn.com", it would be fine to do it with the google site (i.e. "www.google.com"). |
| 1/28/2009 | Week 3 slides now available. Heads up: there is a *chance* that the midterm may be moved forward to March 31. |
| 1/28/2009 | Homework #1 goes out. A message is posted at Forum for "traceroute" from itlab machines. |
| 1/28/2009 | U of M Job and Internship Fair (Feb 9) |
| 1/22/2009 | Check out this fun explanation of bandwidth and throughput |
| 1/16/2009 | Lecture slides for week 1 are available. |
| 12/31/2008 | Textbook Information: Oak St. Textbooks is a local independently owned college textbook store serving the University of Minnesota. We specialize in discounted used books. Please see pricing information below for your class. Book: Computer Networking, 4th Our Price: $71.95 Coffman Price: $77.50 |
| 12/31/2008 | Welcome to CSci4211 Introduction to Computer Networks |