CS 6250 Spring 2013
Computer Networks
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT LINKS
Instructor
Mostafa
Ammar, KACB 3344,
ammar AT cc dot gatech dot edu
Office Hours: Tuesday at 1pm or by appointment. For DL students I am available on Skype address GT-Ammar, but please send me an e-mail first to make sure I have Skype running. Additional office hours will be made available before tests.
Note: Video is being recorded for Distance Learning Students only and is not available for "local" students.
Teaching Assistants
Cong Shi, cshi AT gatech dot edu
Office Hours: Tuesday 2-3pm, KACB in front of room 3319.
Samantha Lo, samantha AT cc dot gatech dot edu
Office Hours: Friday 11-12pm, KACB in front of room 3319.
Mehmet Demirci, mdemirci AT cc dot gatech dot edu
Office Hours: Tuesday 3-4pm, KACB in front of room 3319.
ESSENTIAL Prerequisites
- A previous introductory networking course (e.g., CS3251)
Course Meeting Time
MWF 10:05-10:55pm, Klaus 1456
Course Information
This is a "second" advanced course in networking.
We will cover a broad spectrum of topics in networking building on basic knowledge
you already have.
Please do not take this class if you have never had a networking class before.
While we will cover some basic "textbook" topics, the course will be
primarily based on paper readings.
This course is an advanced graduate course and you will be expected to
do a significant amount of readings on your own.
An outline of course topics is available here
Readings
We will not follow any particular text but these should serve you well if you need a refresher.
- L.L.Petterson and B.S.Davie, Computer Networks: A Systems Approach (second edition)
- Leon-Garcia, COMMUNICATION NETWORKS, McGraw-Hill (second edition)
- J. Kurose and K. Ross, Computer Networking, A top down approach featuring the Internet
- Comer, "Internetworking with TCP/IP, volumes 1 and 3", Prentice Hall.
A link to the course READING MATERIAL including papers and Internet resources
(This list may modified periodically so check often)
Assignments, and Tests
There will be
- 2 HW assignments,
- Two Tests
- A term-long project
There will be no final exam.
All assignments will be submitted electronically using t-square
A schedule for HW and Tests is available here
LATE POLICY
HW and project milestones will be due at 11:59pm on the date specified. There is a 1-hour grace period after that where late submissions will not incur a late penalty.
Submissions that are 1 to 24 hours late will incur a 20% penalty and submissions that are 24 to 48 hours late will incur a 50% penalty. No submissions will be accepted more than 48 hours late.
Grading
Class Participation: 10%, 6% is based on class attendance and participation, 4% is allocated to the entire class based on the percentage partcipation in the Class/Instructor Opinion Survey (CIOS) done at the end of the semester (For example, 80% participation will result in 3.2% added to all class grades).
HW: HW1,HW2: 10% each
Tests: 30% (15% each)
Project: 40% (see project writeup for details)
Important Notes About Grading
- I can only give out a grade of I for non-academic reasons.
- If you end up doing poorly in the class please don't ask for "extra work"
to raise your grade. This would not be fair to other students.
- For those registered as P/F. A Pass requires that you earn a"C" or better
and that you submit all work items (including the project) and take the tests.
The HWs are to be done individually .
You are strongly urged to familiarize yourselves with the
GT Student Honor Code rules.
Specifically, the following is not allowed:
- Copying, with or without modification, someone else's work when this work
is not meant to be publicly accessible (e.g., a classmate's program or solution).
- Submission of material that is wholly or substantially identical to that
created or published by another person or persons, without adequate credit
notations indicating authorship (plagiarism).
You are encouraged to discuss problems and papers with others as long as this
does not involve copying of code or solutions. Any public material that you
use (open-source software, help from a text, material you find on the web,
material from a paper, substantial help from a friend,
etc...) should be acknowledged explicitly in anything you submit to us.
If you have any doubt about whether something is legal or not please do check
with the class Instructor.