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Network Simulation and Testing
Spring 2005

(07/07/05, Thursday) Your final grades are now available from the Progress file. Let Polly know if there's anything problem by July 11 2005, noon.
(06/02/05, Thursday) Your grades and class performances, including the status of the labs, are available from the Progress file.
(06/02/05, Thursday) The location of the final project presentations will be BL-215. The term project time schedule is available from the Project link.
(05/13/05, Friday) Those who wish to learn the linkage of C++ to otcl, please feel free to email the instructor for the ns-2 tutorial video.
(05/13/05, Friday) The rest of the lectures will be held in the computing lab: EEII Room 132.
(05/13/05, Friday) The presentation time for the final project will be on June 27, Monday, from 1pm to 6pm. It's going to be a long battle. Each group has only 20 minutes for the presentation and 5 minutes for the Q&A. There will be 9 slots: 1:00-1:25, 1:30-1:55, 2:00-2:25, 2:30-2:55, 3:00-3:25, 3:30-3:55, 4:00-4:25, 4:30-4:55, 5:00-5:25 and some 10 mins for the final comments. We will take a random draw but those who wish to present earlier or later can try to switch order with other teams.
(05/13/05, Friday) We will set the date/time for the final project presentations at the beginning of the lecture today.
(05/13/05, Friday) Your grades and class performances, including the status of the labs, are available from the Progress file. Please do check this file on a regular basis and report to the instructor if there is any error as soon as possible.
(05/13/05, Friday) I have received the project proposal revisions for almost all teams. Team #8's project topic is however still unclear.
(04/29/05, Friday) We'll be off to EEII Room 132 for the ns-2 lab#1 for this week. The lecture of ns-2 102 will be back in BL-103.
(04/29/05, Friday) The projects are all very interesting. I'm looking forward to the presentation at the end of the semester. The projects are interesting enough that I'm considering to have you guys present briefly the idea and the experimental plan.
(04/29/05, Friday) The round of project proposal screening is completed. Many teams forgot to list the project title. Some are asked to revise the proposal. Please make sure the missing/revised project title are emailed to me by the team captain asap. The revisions can submitted by next Friday 14:00 to the ftp server.
(04/11/05, Monday) The guest speaker for April 22 will be Kuan-Ta Chen who has been doing research on game traffic analysis. He will spend about 2 hours going over the recent findings on the characteristics of MMORPG traffic and another hour on the peer-to-peer traffic. This lecture will be in Chinese and will not be recorded.
(04/11/05, Monday) The Skyqe slides are a bit sensitive and not appropriate to put them up publically available. If you'd like a copy of it, request to Polly by email.
(04/11/05, Monday) The review #1 grades are available from the Progress page. A+ gets 7, A 6, A- 5, and B+ 4 points. Please double check if your grade is recorded wrong.
(04/11/05, Monday) The project proposal meetings will be help all on April 28, Thursday. The individual group's appointment enlisted on the Term Project page.
(04/08/05, Friday) Some did not check the Paper Reviews carefully and neglected to discuss these aspects 1) clarity, 2) correctness, 3) originality, and 4) significance of the paper. And some repeated the sentences/phrases used in the papers and didn't show enough one's genuine interpretations or opinions. These are the main reason one didn't get an A.
(04/08/05, Friday) The review #1 is graded and the grades are available from the Progress page. We have one very impressive review this time. The reviewer examined the question in mind with actual experiments!
(04/08/05, Friday) The project proposal will be due April 22 the week after next week. You want to start brainstorming. The advice is that pick a problem that you see yourselves solving (at least to some degree) in a few weeks. On-going projects and master thesis work are welcome.
(04/08/05, Friday) We'll set individual meetings on April 28 (Thursday) to discuss the proposals.
(04/08/05, Friday) The instructor has biz travel the week of April 19 to 26. We will get substitute speakers to talk about recent advances in online game and p2p traffic characterization on April 22. We will start the ns lab#1 one week later.
(03/30/05, Wednesday) The HW#3, the 2nd paper review, will be due by next Friday 14:00 sharp. You may select one paper from the 'Internet Dynamics' and 'Case Studies' sections from the Reading List to write the detailed review about.
(03/24/05, Thursday) The ftp server for the assignment upload is changed. Please refer to the Paper Reviews and Term Project links for detail.
(03/18/05, Friday) Read at least the abstract and introduction sections of the papers to get a better idea what will be up in the class. I.e., you get more out of the lectures when you know what's to come.
(03/18/05, Friday) The HW#2, the 1st paper review, will be due by next Friday 14:00 sharp. You may select one paper from the 'Internet Traffic' and 'Internet Topology' sections from the Reading List to write the detailed review about.
(03/18/05, Friday) The Progress link is added for you to track your performance in the class.
(03/14/05, Monday) The office hour is set to Thursday 10-12 and 4-6. If these time slots still do not work for you, send emails to make appointments.
(03/11/05, Friday) We shall also set the office hour in today's lecture.
(03/11/05, Friday) The HW#2, the 1st paper review, will be due by next next Friday 14:00 sharp. You may select a paper from the 'Internet Traffic' and 'Internet Topology' sections from the Reading List to write the detailed review about. If you are wondering what will be a good review, please read the Paper Reviews page carefully. In addition, there are sample reviews from previous year for your reference in the Reading List.
(03/11/05, Friday) The Syllabus page is updated to reflect the schedule change and homework due dates.
(03/11/05, Friday) The Term Project page is updated with the latest team list. Please double check. Those who intend to register for the class, please form teams and send Polly the team list as soon as possible.
(03/07/05, Monday) The Discussion Board link is up. Please feel free to post your questions or help answer the questions here.
(03/07/05, Monday) The mp3 recordings are added.
(03/07/05, Monday) The team captains, please send your team list to phuang@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw before the lectures this Friday.
(03/02/05, Wednesday) The Labs link is updated.
(03/02/05, Wednesday) If you are wondering whether the English language interface will influence the quality of teaching. Last year, this course scored a 4.58 and is ranked among the top 3% in the university wide course evaluation.
(03/02/05, Wednesday) One may find last year's grade distribution to understand more on 1) your responsibility for this course, 2) how much effort will be required, 3) what assignement is weighed the most, and 4) whether the course experience will be fruitful for you.
(01/19/05, Wednesday) The course page is established.