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Class location and times:  Moore 225, Tuesday and Thursday 1:30pm-3:00pm

Textbook:  S. Keshav, "An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking:  ATM Networks, the Internet, and the Telephone Network."  Addison-Wesley, 1997, ISBN 0-201-63442-2

Professor:   Roch Guerin  (guerin@seas.upenn.edu)
                      Office hours: T/Th 3:00-4:00pm or by appt.
                      Office location: 367 GRW (Graduate Research Wing next to Moore Building)
TA: mibrahim@seas.upenn.edu
           Office hours: T / Th 4:30-6:00
           Office location: 306 Moore


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Homework and Exams

Problems
Solutions
Homework 1 and Reading Assignment - Due Tuesday 9/21/99
Solution 1
Homework 2 and Reading Assignment - Due Tuesday 9/28/99
Solution 2
Homework 3 and Reading Assignment - Due Tuesday 10/05/99
 Solution 3
Homework 4 and Reading Assignment - Due Tuesday 10/12/99
 Solution 4
Homework 5 and Reading Assignment - Due Tuesday 10/19/99
 Solution 5
Homework 6 and Reading Assignment - Due Tuesday 10/26/99
 Solution 6
Homework 7 and Reading Assignment - Due Tuesday 10/16/99
Solution 7
Homework 8 and Reading Assignment - Due Tuesday 10/30/99
 Solution 8
Homework 9 and Reading Assignment - Due Tuesday 12/07/99
 Solution 9
Homework 10 and Reading Assignment - Due Tuesday 12/14/99
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Previous Years Exams

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SPRING 1999 FINAL EXAM
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FALL 1999 MIDTERM
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FALL 1999 FINAL
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Data for Forwarding Projects

(use "save as" from your browser to donwload the files - they don't preview well through the browser)
The traces are from consecutive time slots at the same router as the one from which the routing table was obtained.  The routing table was also obtained at about the same time as the traces, so that there should be good correlation between the two.


Class slides and other relevant documents

Documents and Class Notes
Slides (HTML Format)
 
Overview (last updated on 9/10/99)
Quality of Service in Packet Networks: Basic Mechanism and Direction by R. Guerin and V. Peris (pdf document)
Naming and Addressing (last updated on 9/14/99)
Finite Buffer Flow Model  (pdf document)
Routing (last updated on 9/21/99)
Delay and Throughput Performance of Speeded-Up Input-Queueing Packet Switches (pdf document)
Multicast (last updated on 9/10/99)
 
Lookups (last updated on 9/10/99)
 
ATM (last updated on 9/10/99)
 
IP and ATM Interactions (last updated on 9/10/99)
(pdf version - posted 10/05/99)
 
RSVP (last updated on 9/10/99)
 
Traffic Management (last updated on 9/10/99)
 
Scheduling and Buffer Management (last updated on 9/10/99)
 
IP and ATM Services (last updated on 9/10/99)
 
Switching (last updated on 9/10/99)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Last Updated:  August 16, 1999