• Honor Code:
  

  Feel free to discuss approaches to solving homework problems with others. However, you are required to work out the details of a solution yourself. Copying solutions from others will be treated as a serious honor code violation.

  
  
• On-time submissions:
  

  Homeworks turned in late are likely to be penalized.

  
  
• Format:
  

  Please typeset your submission in a font no smaller than 12 pt.

• A diagram of the experimental testbed available for the course is available here.
  
  
• The testbed reservation system is available here (accessible only from CS department machines).
  
  
• Instructions for using the testbed, the Apache web server, and the Surge http client request generator are available here.
  
  Note: The speedy30 network is currently down. Please use only the brain10 network.

• A sample gnuplot script is available here.
  
  
• The slides for the LTT tutorial given by Sushant Rewaskar are available here.
  More LTT documentation can be found here and by following the links within.

Due Date	Homework / Project Submission
Feb 16	Assignment # 1
Feb 18	Project Submission # 1
Mar 9	Assignment # 2
Mar 24 (Qn 1 may be submitted by Apr 15)	Assignment # 3 (word document)
Apr 1	Project Submission # 2
Apr 11	Mid-sem Redo
Apr 27	Critical Review

Paper choices for critical review:

• K. Gummadi, R. Dunn, S. Saroiu, S. Gribble, H. Levy, and J. Zahorjan, "Measurement, Modeling, and Analysis of a Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Workload", in Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Bolton Landing, NY, Oct 2003.
  
  
• V. Yegneswaran, P. Barford, and J. Ullrich, "Internet Intrusions: Global Characteristics and Prevalence", in Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, San Diego, CA, June 2003.