Instructor: Nitin Vaidya
Office hours: Tuesday 1:30-3:00 p.m. or by appointment
Office location: 456 Coordinated Science Lab (CSL)
Phone: 217-265-5414
E-mail: nhv@illinois.edu

Lectures:  Tuesday-Thursday 9:30 - 10:45 a.m. in Room 1320 DCL

Teaching Assistants:

• Kajori Banerjee (kbanerj3@illinois.edu)
• Yixiao Lin (lin187@illinois.edu)
• Yogatheesan "Yoga" Varatharajah (varatha2@illinois.edu
• Alexander Zahdeh (zahdeh2@illinois.edu)

• Monday 11:00-12:30 (Kajori Banerjee, ECEB 4034)
• Monday 1:00 - 1:50 (Alexander Zahdeh, ECEB 4034)
• Tuesday 1:00 - 1:50 (Alexander Zahdeh, Siebel Center 1109)
• Tuesday 1:30 - 3:00 (Nitin Vaidya, 456 CSL)
• Wednesday 2:00 - 3:30 (Yixiao Lin, ECEB 3036)
• Wednesday 5:00 - 6:30 (Yogatheesan "Yoga" Varatharajah, Siebel Center 1131)
• Thursday 1:00 - 1:50 (Alexander Zahdeh, Siebel Center 1109)
• Thursday 2:00 - 3:30 (Kajori Banerjee, ECEB 2036)
• Friday 10:00 - 11:30 (Yixiao Lin, ECEB 3036)
• Friday (except Feb. 27) 2:30 - 4:00 (Yogatheesan "Yoga" Varatharajah, Siebel Center 1131)

• Mid-term exam I: 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. on March 3, 2015. Location 1002 ECEB (Grainger Auditorium).: Topics covered in lectures through February 25, 2015 (except mutual exclusion), and the associated required readings are included in the scope of this exam. See the "Lecture Summary and Readings" page for information about the required readings. The mid-term exam will be closed-book closed-notes. Please bring a photo ID to each exam. Click here for the handout to be provided for mid-term exam I.
  
  
• Mid-term exam II: 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. on April 14, 2015. Location 1002 ECEB (Grainger Auditorium).: Topics covered in lectures through April 10, 2015, and the associated required readings are included in the scope of this exam. The questions on Mid-Term Exam II may need familiarity with concepts that were covered by topics included for Mid-Term Exam I. See the "Lecture Summary and Readings" page for information about the required readings. The mid-term exam will be closed-book closed-notes. Please bring a photo ID to each exam. Click here for the handout to be provided for mid-term exam II.
  
  
• Quiz: Scheduled in class on May 5, 2015 (Tuesday). The Quiz will be worth approximately twice as much as Homework 1. The scope of the quiz will include material covered in class between March 30 and May 4, 2015, and associated readings. Many of the questions on the quiz will be multiple choice. The quiz will be closed-book closed-notes. Please bring a photo identification to the quiz.
  
  
• Final examination is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. on Monday, May 11, 2015 in room 1002 ECEB (Grainger Auditorium). The final exam will be comprehensive (thus, all lectures and related required readings are in the scope of the final exam). The final exam will be closed-book closed-notes. Please bring a photo ID to each exam. If you have any conflicts with the final exam, please send a mail to Nitin Vaidya describing the conflict. For the UIUC policy on final examination conflicts, please click here. The final exam schedule is based on the Spring 2015 Final Exam Non-Combined Scheduling Guidelines.
  
  In addition to handouts provided for mid-term exam I and exam II, we will also provide this handout at the final exam.
  
  
• Homework and Programming Assignments
  • Programming Assignment 0 (MP0)
  • Homework 1 and Answer Sheet: Solutions
    Submission instructions
  • Homework 2 and Answer Sheet: Solutions
  • Programming Assignment 1 (MP1)
    Slides: PDF, PPTX
  • Homework 3: Solutions
  • Homework 4: Solutions
  • Recommended exercises (clock synchronization) and solutions
  • Programming Assignment 2 (MP2) and the SIGCOMM 2001 paper on Chord
  • Homework 5: Solutions
  • Solutions for mid-term exam I
  • Homework 6: Solutions
  • Recommended exercises and solutions
  • Programming assignment 3 (MP3)
  • Mid-term exam II and Solutions
  • 2 Recommended exercises
  • Quiz and Solutions