WPI Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Computer Science Department


CS4516 Advanced Computer Networks - Term D12
Instructor: Bob Kinicki

This web page is continually being updated.

General and Historic Course Information
Course Information and Procedures | Academic Honesty Policies | Student Disabilities : last modified 23 Apr 2012
Required Text: Computer Networking A Top-Down Approach, Fifth Edition, James Kurose and Keith Ross
Recommended Text: TinyOS Programming, Philip Levis and David Gay, Cambridge University Press, 2009
Other Reference Texts: Networks Textbooks : last modified 3 Mar 2012

Course Syllabus (pdf) : last modified 23 Apr 12
Class List (pdf) : last modified 15 Mar 12
Programming Teams (pdf) : last modified 23 Apr 12

Programming Assignments

Program 0: Enhanced TCP Echo Client and Server : last modified 7 Mar 12
Design Report: Design Proposal for Medical Examiner Disaster Identification Application : last modified 16 Mar 12
Program 1: Medical Examiner Application using Go Back N : last modified 28 Mar 12
WLAN Report: Wireless Measurement Study : last modified 5 Mar 12 Grade Sheet
Program 2: Sensing and Communicating using TinyOS and TelosB Motes : last modified 5 Mar 12
Program 3: A Network of TelosB Sub-Networks : last modified 23 Apr 12

TinyOS Helpful Sites

ER8600 Switch
WPI Campus Network

Office Hours Schedule

  Office Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Bob Kinicki FL 135   4-5 p.m. 9-10 p.m.   2-3 p.m. 3-4 p.m.
TA: Evan Frenn FL A22     3-4 p.m. 2-3 p.m. 5-6 p.m.  

Help Session Slides

Help Session 1 [D12] pdf pptx Updated: 22 Mar 12

Old CS4516 and CS4514 Exams

Mid Term Exams MidTerm Review D12 (pdf) D11 (pdf) C10 (pdf) B08 (pdf) Answer Q13 Midterm D11 (pdf)
Final Exams D12 Review (pdf) B07 (pdf) C10 (pdf) B08 (pdf) Answer Q16 Midterm D12 (pdf)

CS4516 Lecture Slides

Course Objectives pdf pptx Updated: 1 Mar 12
Review: TCP Sockets pdf pptx Updated: 7 Mar 12
Review: Architecture, OSI Reference Model and TCP/IP Suite pdf pptx Updated: 15 Mar 12
Review: Network Performance Measures pdf pptx Updated: 1 Mar 12
Sample Network Delay Problems pdf pptx Updated: 29 Mar 12
Review: Data Link Layer pdf pptx Updated: 19 Mar 12
Framing, Bit and Byte Stuffing pdf pptx Updated: 7 Mar 12
Transmission Errors pdf pptx Updated: 21 Mar 12
Physical Layer pdf pptx Updated: 20 Mar 12
Data Encoding pdf pptx Updated: 22 Mar 12
Transmission Media pdf pptx Updated: 29 Mar 12
Local Area Networks pdf pptx Updated: 3 Apr 12
Ethernet pdf pptx Updated: 6 Apr 12
Bridges pdf pptx Updated: 9 Apr 12
Wireless Networks pdf pptx Updated: 12 Apr 12
"Characterization of 802.11 Wireless Networks in the Home" pdf pptx Updated: 11 Apr 11
"Performance Anomaly of 802.11b" pdf pptx Updated: 10 Feb 10
"Performance Analysis of the Intertwined Effects between Network Layers for 802/11g Transmissions" pdf pptx Updated: 12 Apr 11
Cellular and Mobile Networks pdf pptx Updated: 23 Apr 12
Wireless Sensor Networks pdf pptx Updated: 11 Apr 12
Berkeley Introduction to Motes pdf pptx Updated: 15 Apr 11
Computer Network Performance Evaluation Video
  Updated: 16 Nov 06
Introduction to TinyOS and nesC pdf pptx Updated: 17 Apr 12
TinyOS Applications pdf pptx Updated: 17 Apr 12
FDDI pdf pptx Updated: 24 Apr 12
Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet pdf pptx Updated: 24 Apr 12
SONET pdf pptx Updated: 23 Apr 12
ATM pdf pptx Updated: 23 Apr 12
Firewalls and Intrusion Detection Systems pdf pptx Updated: 24 Apr 12
Distributed Denial of Service Tutorial pdf ppt Updated: 1 Mar 10

REK's Home Page

Last modified: 24 April 2012

Bob Kinicki
Fuller Labs 135
Computer Science Department
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, MA 01609
rek@cs.wpi.edu