IN2097

Master Course Computer Networks

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Georg Carle
Oliver Gasser, M.Sc.

4 (3+1)

5.0

Internet Protocols. Protocol mechanism and design techniques, that are typically used in network protocols (especially in the Internet). This includes a discussion of the reasons for using them. Implementation principles. Network architecture: principles that lead to the design of network architectures. Network algorithms. Simulation of networks.

Please register for the course and exam in TUMOnline.

There will be two accompanying practical projects: MeasrDroid and MiniNet. Each student chooses between the two project and selects one of them. Your project deliverables will be part of your final grade.

Information regarding the two projects:

• MiniNet: Introductory slides, Project description (last update: November 28)
• MeasrDroid: Introductory slides, Project description (last update: November 11), App download (last update: November 20 - new support file)

You have to choose your project and team partner by the end of Tuesday, November 5, 2013 using the project.txt file in the subversion repository.

The written exam was on the 13th of February 2014, 8:30 - 9:30 in MI HS 1. The retake exam is on the 27th of March, 9:30 - 10:30 in MI HS 2. The registration in TUMonline is now closed.

If you successfully completed the project, the earned credits of the project are added to your exam result.

The final grade is calculated as follows:

final_grade = grade(your_points_in_the_exam + (30%_of_max_points_in_the_exam * your_points_in_the_project / max_points_in_the_project)) + exercise_bonus

The exercise_bonus improves the grade by 0.3 if you successfully completed the exercises and have 5 or more points in the project. If you successfully completed all but one single exercise you will be able to still get the bonus by doing an additional exercise at the end.

Note: Passing the final exam, i.e. getting a grade of 4.0 or better without any bonus, is a necessary condition to get the exercise bonus as well as the project bonus.

Students are encouraged to participate at the exercises. This will benefit your exam preparation and furthermore you will get a 0.3 grade bonus if your participation at the exercises as well as the project (>50% of points achieved) is successful. To successfully participate at the exercises each submitted solution needs 1 point on average for each task.

Points for the tasks are given in the following way:

• 2 points: the initial submission is already good and no correction was necessary.
• 1 point: the initial submission was not completely correct but still sensible. The student corrected the solution.
• 0 points: none of the above applies.

Every two weeks new exercises will be published on Tuesday. The students have until Tuesday 10:30 CET to complete the exercises and submit them. On this Tuesday an example solution will be presented during the lecture. All students are expected to submit a corrected version, where they amend any discrepancies in their initial submission. This correction has to be submitted until the following Friday 10:30 CET. See the table below for an example with concrete dates.

The slides for the exercise presentation are available here.

Discussions among students can be conducted in the Moodle course.