11/20/09: The class chat session will be posted in ICON.

11/20/09: The instructor's office hour will be held online in ICON.

11/19/09: The assignment #3 will be Wireshark 802.11 and textbook problems Chapter 6 P5, Chapter 8 P9, P15, P16 and P24. The necessary files will be posted in ICON.

11/18/09: PGP Exercise due by Wednesday, December 2.

1. Create a PGP public and private key pair for yourself.
2. Email the TA your public key. Make sure that you are sending from the email address you used to create the PGP key.
3. TA will send a signed and encrypted email that has his public key in attachment to you. Verify the signature of the email you received from the TA, and decrypt the content.
4. Encrypt and sign the decrypted message and send back to your TA.

11/04-11/09: The instructor's office hours are cancelled. Please contact her via email with any quesions.

11/02/09: For the definition of relay agent in Wireshark DHCP lab, read here.

10/23/09: Assignment #2 consists of Wireshark DHCP lab (in ICON) and textbook problems: Chapter 7 Problem 1 with youtube.com and video.msn.com, Problem 10, Problem 21, Chapter 8 Problem 3 and Problem 12. Note that you should use the author-provided trace for Wireshark lab.

10/23/09: The instructor's office hour is changed to 9:30-10:30am temporarilily. Sorry for the inconvenience.

10/14/09: The midterm location is now set: 109 EPB.

10/14/09: No office hour by the instructor. You may contact her via email, but the response may be delayed.

10/11/09: The acceptable format for assignment submissions are doc/docx and pdf. If you cannot provide in these formats, please consult with the TA on other acceptable formats.

9/29/09: For Chapter 3 Problem 13, assume that the receiver sends NAK when it receives a garbled message and also when it receives an out-of-order message.

9/28/09: Include your answers to Wireshark labs in Assignment 1 submission.

9/11/09: The lecture slides are posted in ICON under Contents tab.

9/09/09: The TA's office hour this Friday is temporarily relocated to Thursday 4-5pm.

9/06/09: Help Lab hours are Monday 5-10 p.m.; Tuesday 4-9 p.m; and Wednesday 4-9 p.m. You may use this help for programming.

9/04/09: The instructor's office hour on Fridays is changed to 11:30am to 12:30pm.

8/28/09: The instructor's office hour is temporarily moved to 3:30-4:30pm at her office.

8/24/09: You can use the slides from Fall 2007 for preparation for classes.

8/20/09: The 4th edition of the extbook is fine.