| Assignment | | Date Assigned | | Date Due | | Related Links | | Class Notes | | Grading Guidelines |
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| Lab 1: Setting Up Linux |
| January 15 |
| January 31 |
| Linux Documentation,
XFree86,
Linux PPP HOWTO,
Recommended Linux kernel configuration changes,
Sample xorg.conf,
Sample Grub configurations |
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FC8 Installation (Week 1),
Routing and PPP (Week 2)
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| Grading Guidelines
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| Lab 2a: UML Setup |
| January 29 |
| February 6-7 |
| Kernel HOWTO
(refer to local document if not available),
User Mode Linux,
UML Wiki Web Site,
Old UML HOWTO
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UML (Week 3),
UML post 1
| | Grading Guidelines
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| Lab 2b: TCP Timers |
| February 5 |
| February 13-14 (demo)
February 20-21 (report) |
| Congestion Control in Linux TCP,
Sock,
TcpDump,
TcpTrace,
Related Tools,
IPerf,
CScope,
CBrowser,
Wlan-NG Driver,
testip.c (Convert IP address to internal representation),
modified ip_forward.c (used in conjunction with testip.c),
Enhanced sock program
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| Kernel Instrumentation (Week 4),
TCP Timers (Week 5),
UML post 2
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| Grading Guidelines
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| Lab 3: SNMP |
| February 19 |
| February 27-28 (1st demo)
March 5-6 (2nd demo/report) |
| Net-SNMP,
Linux Kernel Newbies Wiki,
Unreliable Guide to Locking
(also in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/DocBook),
Sysctl Interface,
Stalling's 1998 paper on SNMPv3,
Linux networking kernel paper
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| Introduction to SNMP,
Lab3 Impl. Notes (Week 6),
Network Impl. in Kernel (Week 7)
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| Grading guidelines
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Lab 4: Encapsulating
TCP Packets |
| March 4 |
| March 26-27 |
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TCP/UDP echo servers
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| Lab4 Impl. Notes (Week 8)
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| Grading guidelines
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| Lab 5: Real-Time TCP |
| March 25 |
| April 9-10 |
| Liang and Cheriton' 2003 paper on TCP-RTM
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| TCP-RTM (Week 9),
Servers for experiments
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| Grading guidelines
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Lab 6: Independent
Project |
| April 1 |
| April 8 (discussion)
April 15 (1st pres.)
April 22 (2nd pres.)
April 29 (3rd pres.)
May 6-8 (demo) |
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Datagram Congestion Control Protocol,
Kohler's page on DCCP,
Reliable Multicasts,
INFOCOM'2000 paper on CHOKe,
ToN'2004 paper on Understanding CHOKe,
RFC page,
Troll Application Program,
ETFA'06 paper on wireless QoS
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Lab6 Impl. Notes (Week 11)
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Presentation guidelines
Demo/report grading guidelines
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