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Lab assignments


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 (in October 2012).

  • Instructions (availible)
  • Deadline: Oct. 12, 16:59 (hard deadline)

Required (mandatory) assignments

The laboration series consists of a series of programming assignments to be presented gradually to a laboration assistant. To pass the lab series you need to have passing grade on all requiered (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 (updated 24/8/2012): October 19 is the deadline for the assignments. This is the last date for demonstration of, and handing in the code for, the laboration assignments. From this date up until the exam, the TAs will not answer any questions about the labs. Please use this time to study for the exam. For those assignments that still require "more work", the final, hard deadline is on October 31, at 17.00. This is the last date for demonstration of, and handing in the code for, the laboration assignments. Contact your lab assistant and schedule a suitable time. After the deadline you will only be allowed to hand in assignment solutions during the exam periods for the TDTS06 course in January, but only if you have previously passed at least assignments 1 and 2. The hard deadline to hand in the assignments during the January exam period will be at the date of the TDTS06 exam (during that period).

From the date of the hard deadlines, there will be a two week window during which you have one chance to address the TA's concerns and resubmit an improved version. (One week for the TA to mark the assignment and one week for you to address his/her concerns.) Please take the TA's concerns seriously and address them as carefully as possible. If you have problems keeping a deadline, please contact your lab assistant as soon as possible.


Registering in Webreg

  • Register here
  • Deadline: August 31 (or as soon as possible!!)
  • IMPORTANT NOTE (28/8/2012): Unfortunately, we do not seem to be able to register non-registered international students (at least) in WebReg. If you have problem registering in the course, please try at the student centre. Once you are registered for the course AND verified your selections on the student portal (new for this year), you should (supposedly) be able to sign up in WebReg. In the meantime, I would strongly suggest that you start doing the assignments (and attend the lab sessions). Looking at the current numbers in the lab groups there should be most room in lab groups B and C. (Depending on student numbers we may or may not use group C. For the first few weeks all lab sessions will be open for students.)

Assignemnt 1: "Wireshark lab: Getting started + HTTP" (1 time slot)
  • Instructions (availible)
  • Deadline: Sept. 7 (for purpose of priority)

Assignment 2: Net Ninny (3 time slots)
  • Instructions (availible)
  • Deadline: Sept. 28 (for purpose of priority)

Assigment 3: Transport-layer and TCP friendly protocols (2 time slots)
  • Instructions (availible)
  • Deadline: Oct. 5 (for purpose of priority)

Assignment 4: Distance vector routing (2 time slots)
  • Instructions (availible)
  • Deadline: Oct. 19 ("semi-hard" for all assignments, please see deadline for labs above)

Old assignments

Previous year's assigments can be found here: 2010, 2011.

Page responsible: Niklas Carlsson
Last updated: 2012-09-24