TDTS06 Computer Networks
Lab assignments
Required (mandatory) assignments
The lab series consists of a series of programming assignments to be presented gradually to a lab assistant. To pass the lab series you need to have passing grade on all required (mandatory) assignments. General guidelines can be found here.
The assignments should be handed in before their respective deadlines, as outlined below.
For most people there will NOT be enough time during the lab times to solve all the assignments.
As some of the later assignments can be demanding, and require programming,
you are responsible to work hard outside of the allocated lab times to keep up with the labs.
Based on past courses, we strongly encourage you to work hard from the first week of the course.
Students that fall behind often struggle to catch up.
IMPORTANT about deadlines (updated 30/8/2015):
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- For all emails regarding the assignments, you should use your LiU email and cc your lab partner.
- Advice: The first assignment is relatively straight forward, is intended as a warmup exercise that helps you get prepared for the second assignment. It is expected to be done very quickly in the first week, so that you can hit the second assignment running. The second assignment can be much more time consuming and it is strongly recommended that you start it as soon as possible and work hard, so that you can solve, demonstrate, and report the results within before the September deadline. Of course, doing assignment 1 carefully will help here.
Assignment series overview
- Similar to in your future work life, many of these labs have more than one solution, require that you identify the most important information (as given in the assignment, online, in textbooks, or in other resources that you may find credible and helpful), and require that you carefully explain your solutions and findings both verbally and in a written report. Please take this as a learning opportunity to communicate your solutions and findings.
- Assignment 2 and 4 require substantially more work than assignment 1 and 3. Therefore, please make sure to finish assignment 1 quickly so that you stay on pace with the assignment series.
- The lab slots are primarily to demonstrate the labs and ask questions to the TAs. Outside that, you are expected to allocate the time necessary for you and your lab partner to complete the assignments.
Registering in Webreg
- Register here
- Deadline: September 4 (or as soon as possible!!)
- NOTE (30/8/2013): Unfortunately, non-registered international students have occasionally had problem to register in WebReg. If you have problem registering in the course, please try at the student center. Once you are registered for the course AND verified your selections on the student portal you should (supposedly) be able to sign up in WebReg. (Unfortunately, it also appears that you may have to wait a day or so for the registrations to get through the system and your IDA accounts to be activated.) In the meantime, I would strongly suggest that you start doing the assignments (and attend the lab sessions).
Assignment 1: "Wireshark lab: Getting started + HTTP" (1 time slot)
- Instructions (available)
- Deadline: Sept. 4 (for purpose of priority)
Assignment 2: Net Ninny (3 time slots)
- Instructions (available)
- Sockets and Assignment 2 lecture (Vengatanathan): 2015
- Important note: This assignment can take time ... To complete this assignment on time, you are therefore strongly advised to spend lots of time on it as soon as possible.
- Deadline: Sept. 25 (for purpose of priority)
Assignment 3: Transport-layer and TCP friendly protocols (2 time slots)
- Instructions (available)
- Deadline: Oct. 9 (for purpose of priority)
Assignment 4: Distance vector routing (2 time slots)
- Instructions (available)
- Deadline: Oct. 16 ("semi-hard" for all assignments, please see deadline for labs above)
Optional (bonus) assignment
Solving an optional assignment during the course can render you up to 4 extra points to be used for the written examination (on October 30, 2014).
- Instructions (availible)
- Deadline: Oct. 18, 23:59 (hard deadline)
Old assignments
Previous year's assignments can be found here: 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014.
Page responsible: Andrei Gurtov
Last updated: 2016-08-24