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TCOM 502 Course Wiki for Spring 2012

Current Announcements

5/07/2012 - Final exam grades have been posted on Blackboard. You can check your graded exam from Dru Spanner's desk, but will not be able to pick it up as per university rules. The scores distribution is as shown below together with the distribution of the overall letter grade for the class. Letter grades are available from Course-In-Touch.

5/01/2012 - Solution for the final exam has been posted in the Solutions to Past Exams section.

Old Announcements

4/23/2012 - As with the midterm exam, the final exam will be open-book, but Internet access will be prohibited. From the information on the registrar's web page, the exam is scheduled for Tuesday May 1^st, 2012, 12:00-2:00pm in DRLB A4.

The scope of the exam includes everything we have covered in the class from the start of the semester. However, the focus will be on material that was not part of the midterm's scope. In other words, while some problem may call on your knowledge of, say, OSPF or EIGRP, there wont be a full problem targeting solely the operation of the OSPF or EIGRP protocols. Again, as with the midterm, you are strongly encouraged to check past final exams that are all available on the wiki. The one caveat is that since we covered "Lookups" at the end of the semester instead of the start, which was the norm in previous years, "lookup" related problems are often to be found in past midterm exams rather than past final exams.
Note: The topic "Routing & Traffic Engineering" that has been covered in the last class (slides 83 and onward of TrafMgt.pptx) will not be included in the final exam. However, everything else in the slide-deck TrafMgt.pptx will.

4/09/2012 - As mentioned in class this morning, the last homework (Homework No. 10) has been posted in the Assignments section of the wiki.
Note that it is only due on Monday April 23^rd, 2012, at the start of class, which is our last class of the semester. I hesitated on whether or not to assign one more homework on traffic management, which we finished covering this morning, but decided that there are enough sample problems on the topic in past exams for you to practice for the final exam. Instead, Homework No. 10 will be a bit longer than usual, and so you should plan on getting started early even if we wont have covered everything you need to do the problems until probably the end of next week.

4/4/2012 - A reminder that project presentations will be held on Thursday 4/5, 4/12, and 4/19 at 5pm in DRLB 3W2.
Please remember that presentations are 10mins followed by 5mins of questions. I will stop presentations sharply after 10mins if they are not finished, so please plan your slides accordingly.

Project presentations are open for all to attend, and so feel free to come if your are interested.
For those of you presenting projects, please remember that I need to have received the final version of your slides and report by 10:00am on the day of your presentation.

4/3/2012 (Sangeetha) Homework 7 is available for pickup. Solution to homework 8 has been posted.

4/2/2012 - Homework No. 9 has been posted in the Assignments section of the wiki, and it is due on Monday April 9^th, 2012, at the start of class.

3/26/2012 (Sangeetha) - The solution to homework 7 has been uploaded.

3/26/2012 - Homework No. 8 has been posted in the Assignments section of the wiki, and it is due on Monday April 2^nd, 2012, at the start of class.

3/20/2012 - Midterm grades have been posted on Blackboard. You can retrieve your graded exam from Dru Spanner, but will only be able to pick-up your own. The scores distribution is as shown below. The highest score was 96, the lowest was 12, and the mean was 50.13.

3/19/2012 - Homework No. 7 has been posted in the Assignments section of the wiki, and it is due on Monday March 26^th, 2012, at the start of class.

3/14/2012 - Solutions to the midterm exam have been posted under Solutions to Past Exams.

3/02/2012 - MIDTERM EXAM SPLIT ROOM ASSIGNMENT. Because Moore 216 is not large enough to accommodate all 48 students with alternate seating, and there were no room large enough to fit the whole class anywhere on campus, we had to split the class across two rooms. As a result, the first 12 students in the class list (listed below), have been assigned to take the exam in room DRLB 4C2. If your name is not in the list below, you should take the exam in our regular classroom, Moore 216.

Amin, Abhay B
Anwar, Saad V
Bolakani, Dhruv
Cai, Han
Choudhury, Priyankan
Fotoohi, Parastoo
Gupte, Chinmay Nishikant
Ijeoma, Illoh
Jin, Xinwei
Kabbatende, Alline
Kassymkhanova, Indira
Liu, Jing

2/28/2012 - REMINDER: Our midterm will be held in-class on Wednesday March 14^th, 2012. It is open-book and you will be allowed access to your computer as well as all your notes, lecture slides, past homeworks and exams, etc., but Internet access will be prohibited. Hence, make sure you have local copies of any material you expect to need. Please check the material under Course Grading if you have doubts regarding this policy.
The exam coverage includes everything up to but excluding multicast.

2/27/2012 (Sangeetha)
Office hours and recitation - next 2 weeks
Tue Feb 28 - office hours (Towne 307 5pm-7pm)
Fri Mar 2 - recitation canceled
Tue Mar 6 - office hours canceled (Spring break)
Fri Mar 9 - recitation (if requested)
Mon Mar 12- recitation (DRL A6 (3pm-5pm)- Spring 2011 midterm discussion)
Tue Mar 13 - office hours (Towne 307 5pm-7pm)

2/23/2012 (Sangeetha) - Homework 4 is available for pick-up.

2/22/2012 - Homework No. 6 has been posted in the Assignments section of the wiki, and it is due on Wednesday February 29^th, 2012, at the start of class.

2/21/2012 (Sangeetha) - Homework 3 is available for pick-up.

2/20/2012 - Because we did not manage to completely cover the material relevant to Question 4.b of Problem 1, you don't need to answer it if you don't think you know how to do it.

2/15/2012 - Project presentation dates have been posted in Projects List.

2/14/2012 - Homework No. 5 has been posted in the Assignments section of the wiki, and it is due on Wednesday February 22^nd, 2012, at the start of class.

2/07/2012 - Homework No. 4 has been posted in the Assignments section of the wiki, and it is due on Wednesday February 15^th, 2012, at the start of class.

2/03/2012 - 5:00pm - Project selections are now officially closed

2/01/12 (Sangeetha) - Solution to Homework 2 has been posted.

2/01/12 - Homework No. 3 has been posted in the Assignments section of the wiki, and it is due on Wednesday February 8^th, 2012, at the start of class.

1/30/12 (Sangeetha) - Homework 1 is available for pick-up at Dru's office.

1/24/12 - Homework No. 2 has been posted in the Assignments section of the wiki, and it is due on Wednesday February 1st, 2012, at the start of class.

1/17/12 (Sangeetha) - TA office hours will be held in Towne 307 at 5pm today (Tuesday). There will be no recitation this week since there is no assignment due this Wednesday. Recitation will be held in Towne 307 at 5pm on Fridays from 1/27/12.

1/14/12 - Homework No. 1 has been posted in the Assignments section of the wiki, and it is due on Wednesday January 25, 2012, at the start of class.

1/4/12 - Lectures for the course are on Monday and Wednesday from 10:30am to noon in Moore 216, with our first lecture being held on Wednesday January 11, 2012.