352 Announcements

Breaking news about the course

May 11
Final exam grades and final course grades are posted on sakai. Final exam grades ranged from 29 to 99.
May 9

Reminder: the final exam takes place on Monday, May 9 from 8:00-10:00pm in our regular classroom. Note that it is scheduled for a later time than our lectures. If you are definitely not planning to take the exam, have a non-zero bump grade, and have not informed me, please let me know so I can print fewer copies.

If you are planning to take the final, be sure to arrive on time and to bring your Rutgers ID.

Expect the material to focus on material from the latter two thirds of the course. I do not plan to ask you about application layer protocols or the sockets API. Be sure you understand the transport, network, and datalink layers. I will not about VoIP.

May 3

Pre-final grades are posted on sakai. This is the grade that you will receive if you do not take the final. Grades are on a standard 4-point scale: 4.0=A, 3.5=B+, 3.0=B, 2.5=C+, 2.0=C, 1.0=D, 0=F.

Final exam information is posted on the exam page.

You have the option of taking the final exam. The Bump Grade that is posted on sakai is the grade that you need to get on the final to raise your course grade to the next half grade level (e.g., B to B+). A bump grade of 0 means that there is no grade on the final that will increase your final course grade and you should not take the final. In computing grades, I drop the lowest exam grade. Right now, you have a grade of zero for the final exam and that grade is dropped. A better performance on the final exam may result in another exam being dropped instead of the final. If all your grades were generally consistent, it is unlikely that good performance on the final will affect your grade. I will not reward you for taking the final.

If you decide that you definitely plan to take the exam, please let me know. If your bump grade is not zero and you decide that you definitely plan not to take the exam, please let me know as well so I will not print extra copies.

April 22

Reminder: Exam 3 takes place on Monday. Be sure to arrive on time, well-rested, and prepared. I made minor fixes to the lecture notes and exam study guide (mostly correcting typos, fixing some awkward sentences, and fixing a few markdown formatting errors). To prepare, be sure to check:

April 18
It's a bit late in the semester to be sending this reminder but... Note that 352 starts at 6:40pm. Please make every effort to get to the class on time.
April 6
There will be no 352 recitation today.
Assignment 8 (a written assignment) is posted and due on Wednesday, April 13.
March 25
I've posted an FAQ for assignment 7. Please check it periodically for answers to questions you might have or might not even be aware you have. It also addresses the use of third-party libraries and possible problems you might experience with the newest version of dig on Linux (not on the iLab machines).
March 18
In case you missed the update to the syllabus several weeks ago, the announcement in class, and the information on the exam info page, the second exam will take place on Monday, March 28.
March 10
Assignment 7 is posted and is due on Sunday, April 3, 2016 via sakai prior to 11:59pm.
This is a programming assignment. You may work in a group if you wish but pay attention to the deadline and be aware that there will be an exam and written assignments during this period so budget your time accordingly.
February 24
Assignment 6 (a written assignment) is posted and due on Wednesday, March 9. I also posted the exam review under the recitation notes.
February 24
Assignment 5 (a written assignment) is posted and due on Wednesday, March 2.
February 24
There will be no 352 recitation today.
February 22
Reminder: the first exam takes place today. We will have a lecture for the first third or half of class followed by the exam. Please plan to come on time to avoid distrupting the class. Latecomers to the exam will not be permitted to take it.
February 18
I posted an FAQ for assignment 3. I will be updating it with answers to questions that I feel would be of use to the class. Please check it periodically to ensure that you're not misunderstanding any aspect of the assignment.
February 17
I had a typo in the exam info page where I stated that you are responsible for material from the first three weeks of class for the first exam. That was a mistake: you are responsible for the material from the first four weeks of class. The list of topics and study guide reflected this correctly.
February 14
The first exam is in 10 days. The exam info page contains a preliminary list of things you should and shouldn't know for the exam. It also has a link to the exam from the last (and only) time I taught this class. Expect the format to be similar. The page also has a link to a study guide. It's somewhat long (about 23 pages if printed) but I tried to put all the pertinent material along with some examples and some items that are not covered in the text. If, in your studies, you find anything that is incorrect or just unclear, please let me know. I may make minor changes to both the study list and study guide but do not expect to make substantial changes. I also fixed some typos and added some clarifications in the lecture slides for app layer protocols.
February 10
Assignment 4 is posted and is due on Wednesday, February 17, 2016 via sakai prior to 6:25pm.
Please pay attention to the deadline. The assignment is due before the start of section 1 recitation and is due before the programming assignment.
February 10
Grades for homework 1 have been posted. If you have any questions regarding the grading, please either email Hongyu or talk to him after recitation next week. Solutions are posted under recitation notes.
February 5
Assignment 3 is posted and is due on Friday, February 26, 2016 via sakai prior to 11:59pm.
This is a programming assignment. You may work in a group if you wish but pay attention to the deadline and be aware that there will be an exam and written assignments during this period so budget your time accordingly.
February 4
Assignment 2 is posted and is due on Wednesday, February 10, 2016 via sakai prior to 6:25pm.
Please pay attention to the deadline. The assignment is due before the start of section 1 recitation.
February 1
Clarification on the homework: For question 3, you should consider the delay before a packet can be transmitted. You have a stream of data coming in at 64,000 bits per second. Before the first bit of the packet can be transmitted, you need to generate the 56-byte packet. After that, you add the time to transmit the packet (56 bytes at 2 megabits per second) and, finally, the propagation delay (10 ms). The thing to watch out for is units. The first number will probably give you an answer in ms (milliseconds) while the second value will likely be in µs (microseconds). If you just use a calculator, you should be ok. Express your answer in ms (milliseconds).
January 26
Assignment 1 is posted and is due on Wednesday, February 3, 2016 via sakai prior to 6:25pm.
January 20
There will be no recitation tonight since we did not have our first lecture. The first lecture will take place on Monday, January 25 at 6:40pm in TIL-257.