CS 396M class schedule (This schedule will be revised and updated frequently.)

 Spring 2013,  Instructor:  Simon S. Lam

Date Topic Notes Slides (will be revised prior to lecture)
Jan 15 Course description; Little's Law

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Jan 17 Packet scheduling: queueing analysis and Conservation Law    
Jan 22 Packet scheduling: HOL priority service     download
Jan 24 Packet scheduling (cont.)
Secure group communications
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Jan 29 Secure group communications     Homework #1 assigned  
Jan 31 Erasure codes        download 
Feb  5 Digital signatures for flows and multicasts     download 
Feb  7 Digital signatures (cont.)
Sliding window protocol
    Homework #1 due in class   download 
Feb  12 TCP congestion control    
Feb 14 TCP congestion control (cont.)
GAIMD congestion control

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Feb 19 GAIMD congestion control (cont.)
Packet scheduling: WFQ and Virtual Clock
     Homework #2 assigned   download 
Feb 21 Packet scheduling: deterministic end-to-end delay bounds     download 
Feb 26 Packet scheduling: deterministic end-to-end delay bounds    
Feb 28         Homework #2 due in class  
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Mar 12 & 14 Spring Break Spring Break  
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Mar 21 Title and references for term paper (hard copy) due in class (readme).  Also email a soft copy (pdf) to TA: Mr. Hongkun Yang    Email: yanghk AT cs D0T utexas D0T edu Late penalty of 1% of term paper grade per calendar day your submission is late  
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Mar 28 Examination The exam will be closed book but you can bring two pages of notes (printed or hand-written) and a calculator  
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Apr 9 Term paper (hard copy) due in class (readme).  Also email a soft copy (pdf) to TA: Mr. Hongkun Yang    Email: yanghk AT cs D0T utexas D0T edu Late penalty of 5% of term paper grade per calendar day your submission is late  
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Apr 11   term paper presentations    
Apr 16   term paper presentations    
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May 2   term paper presentations