The final exams have been marked. Feedback is available in Moodle.
You can find your exam marks and the final course mark (FinalMark) here . The final mark will be rounded to the nearest decimal (e.g., 64.4 equals 64, while 54.6 equals 55).
Congratulations to the following individuals for outstanding performance in the course:
James Dower 96
Yazed Jalal Alfalhi 92
Yuying Zhou 91
I hope you enjoyed the course. Good luck with your other exams and for the rest of your studies.
The final exam will be held on Monday, 17th August from 12:50pm to 3:00pm (exam start time is 1:00pm sharp).
A Teams Meeting invite was sent to all students. All students MUST turn on their video and microphone during the duration of the exam.
Here is the Moodle Exam Link . The exam is password protected. The LiC will provide the password in the Teams Meeting.
Please read the Online Exam Preparation Check List and the Final Exam Terms and Conditions carefully.
Good luck
Assignment marks are available here . Your marked reports were emailed to you. The class average was 80 out of 100.
Good luck for the final exam on Monday !!
The final exam will be held on Monday, 17th August from 12:50pm to 3:00pm (exam start time is 1:00pm sharp).
A Teams Meeting invite was sent to all students. All students MUST turn on their video and microphone during the duration of the exam.
Here is the Moodle Exam Link . The exam is password protected. The LiC will provide the password in the Teams Meeting.
Please read the Online Exam Preparation Check List and the Final Exam Terms and Conditions carefully.
Further details about the type of questions and included content are here .
Exam Consults will be held today, 12th August (Wed) from 5pm to 6pm on Teams.
Finally, please complete the MyExperience Surveys . Less than half the class has provided feedback. The survey ends tomorrow (13th August). I would appreciate your inputs.
Good luck.
Lab Exam marks are available here . You can also check the question by question breakdown in Moodle. Amir has left comments if marks were deducted. The class average was 8.6. The highest score was 10 (9 students) and lowest score was 2.5.
We will have our final 2 lectures this week.
Today I will cover Virtual Private Networks (VPN). Tomorrow, Dr, Nadeem Ahmed will deliver a guest lecture on Anonmyzing Network Technologies. I will discuss about the final exam after the guest lecture. A sample exam paper will be made available tomorrow.
Please complete the
MyExperience Survey
(both parts) for COMP9332. We would appreciate your feedback as it helps us improve the course for future offerings.
A reminder that your assignment is due by 5pm on Friday, 7th August . This is hard deadline.
The link for the lab exam is here . The exam will open at 3:05pm (Sydney time). The exam is password protected. Students will have to join the lab Teams Meeting and obtain the password from the tutor (Amir).
The link for the lab exam is here . The exam will open at 3:05pm (Sydney time). The exam is password protected. Students will have to join the lab Teams Meeting and obtain the password from the tutor (Amir).
The lab exam will be held in the second scheduled lab this week, i.e. Thursday (30th July) or Friday (31st July) @ 3pm as per your enrolment. The exam is worth 10% of your final grade.
The exam will be held online in Moodle and will last for 1 hour . The exam will open precisely @ 3:05pm and close at 4:05pm.
The exam will be based on the routing protocol (RIP, OSPF, BGP) lab exercises. You will be given a topology to create in Riverbed Modeler, asked to run the simulation and answer some questions in the space provided in Moodle. There will be NO exercises based on Mininet/SDN. The exam is open book/notes.
A link to the exam will be made available on the course website on the morning of your exam. The exam is password protected. You will have to log in to the regular lab Teams meeting and Amir will provide you the password. Amir will be available during the exam on Teams to answer any questions that you may have.
Good luck !!
Please complete the MyExperience Survey (both parts) for COMP9332. We would appreciate your feedback as it helps us improve the course for future offerings.
The content for Week 9 lectures (Multicasting and Delay Tolerant Networks) is now online. Your final lab (2nd lab on SDN) will be held on Monday. The lab exam will be held on Thursday/Friday. The exam will be held online in Moodle. Further details will be announced early next week.
The lecture and lab content for Week 8 is on the website. There is only one lab this week on Thu/Fri. There is NO lab on Monday. In the lectures, we will cover Software Defined Networking (SDN).
The lecture and lab content for Week 7 is on the website. There are two labs on BGP this week. In the lectures, we will wrap up BGP and cover Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.
The assignment spec is released and available here . The deadline is 5pm on Friday, 7th August (Week 10) . The assignment is based on AODV, a routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks. We will cover AODV in the first lecture in Week 7. The lecture slides for AODV have been uploaded. You are welcome to start reading up about it. Good luck.
I have realised that I stuffed up a couple of answer choices for a question in the mid-term exam. I have included the question below and the correct choices which I messed up. I have updated the exam marks to reflect this error. You can check the remarked exam in Moodle. Marks also updated in the SMS database. The revised statistics are as follows.
Max: 21.25, Min: 7.75, Mean: 15.5, Median: 15.5, Std. Dev: 3.7.
Apologies for the error.
Question: An organisation is granted a block of addresses with the beginning address 14.24.74.0/24. The network administrator needs to create 3 sub-blocks of addresses for 3 subnets which require 120, 60, and 10 addresses, respectively. The following sub-blocks are allocated for the first and second subnet (the beginning address of each block is provided):
Subnet 1: 14.24.74.0/25
Subnet 2: 14.24.74.128/26
Which of the following could be a possible beginning address of the block for the last subnet?
A reminder that there are no labs or lectures in Week 6. I will release the assignment on Monday. Have a great weekend.
Your marks (out of 25) for the mid-term exam are available here . The class mean is 15, median is 15 and standard deviation is 3.8. The highest score is 20 (4 students) and the lowest is 6.5. Note that, the mid-term is worth 15% of your final mark.
You should be able to view your attempt and the correct answer for each question in the Moodle quiz .
The mid-term exam will be held today (1st July, Wednesday) from 6:05pm to 07:05pm.
The exam will be held online via Moodle. The link to the exam is here .
I will be available online on Teams for questions.
Further details about the exam are here .
Good luck !!
There is no lab on Monday this week to give you more time to prepare for the exam. In Tuesday's lecture we will get started on BGP. I will upload the lecture notes on Tuesday. The lab on Thursday/Friday will go ahead as planned. The mid-term exam will be held on Wednesday (1st July) from 06:05pm to 07:05pm . The exam will be online on Moodle. I have decided to reduce the number of questions to 25 (each worth 1 mark). Further details can be found here . Please make sure you take the sample test (open till noon on Tuesday) to get familiar with the online exam environment. Good luck for the exam.
You can access the sample mid-term exam here . This will familiarise you with the exam environment in Moodle. The sample exam will be open till 12 noon on Tuesday, 30th June,
Content for the lectures and labs for Week 4 is now available.
A reminder that the mid-term exam will be held on Wednesday, 1st July (week 5) during the regular lecture time. I will add details about the exam on the website next week.
The slides and homework questions for Week 3 are now available on the course website.
A reminder that the mid-term exam for the course will be held on Wednesday, 1st July (Week 5) during regular lecture hours. Details about the exam will be available next week.
A reminder that labs commence in Week 3. There are two labs scheduled per week. You should all have received calendar invites to the Microsoft Teams meetings for the labs. The links have also been posted on the labs page. Your lab instructor will guide you through the lab exercises (posted on the labs page).
Please make sure that you install Riverbed Modeler emulator on your personal machine prior to the lab. Instructions on how to do so are on the labs page.
Have fun !!
The slides and homework questions for Week 2 are now available on the course website.
Note that, all enrolled students have been added to the COMP9332 Teams in Microsoft Team. It is recommended that you download the Teams app on your computer. You will find lecture recordings in the General channel there. The video links are also available on the Lecture Slides page.
Labs being in Week 3. There will be 2 lab sessions per week. We will setup the Teams meeting later this week. Your lab tutor will guide you through the exercises every week. You will receive calendar invites for the same. The links will also posted on the labs page.
For the first few labs, we will use the Riverbed Modeler emulator. It is very important that you download this application on your personal machine as we are unable to provide a virtual environment for it. The executable of the Academic version is available for download on the labs page. It runs on Windows 7 or 10. You will have to setup an account on the Riverbed website when you instal it. If you do not have a machine with Windows OS, then you can download VMWare and install Windows in a virtualised setting. Links for downloading VWMare and Windows licenses are provided on the labs page. We reiterate that it is absolutely essential that you have installed Riverbed Modeler on your personal machine prior to the labs next week (Week 3). Email the LiC if you have any issues with this.
Welcome to COMP9332 . The course webpage is at www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs9332
Please read the course outline carefully.
Lectures will be be held online via Microsoft Teams on Tuesdays and Wednesdays @ 6pm . All students should have received calendar invites for the lectures. The Microsoft Teams link for the recurring lecture meeting is here .
Labs will commence in Week 3. We will use Riverbed Modeler for the labs. Please make sure that you can download and install the software on your personal machine. Details for the same are available on the labs page .
See you all online next week.