Fall 2015, Monday-Wednesday Section Advanced Computer Communications (USC CSci 651). Professor: John Heidemann.
Class location: OHE 120. Time: Monday-Wednsedays 10am to noon.
Office hours location: PHE 516. Time: Wednesdays 2pm-3:30pm, or by appointment.
- The primary web site for this class will be my CSci651 moodle (moodle is an open source course management system).
- The CSci651 Moodle will require student accounts. Instructions to get the accounts will appear here in summer 2015. To get a Moodle account, first fill out the the CSci651 web information form, then it will give you an “enrollment key” and let you create a moodle account. (Sorry for the multiple steps.)
- All CSci651 students in my section are required to fill out the 651 web information form before the second class.
- A draft syllabus [PDF] is currently available.
- Starting in Fall 2015 USC has split the beginning graduate-level networking course, CSci551, Computer Communications, into two course numbers: CSci551 and CSci651. CSci651 is targeted at PhD students, but MS students are allowed to attend with instructors permission and the expectation that class will move very quickly and will feature individualized, research-targeted projects. (MS students with specialization in networking are encouraged to attend.) CSci551 is targeted at MS students and will feature a class-wide project. Both courses have a similar syllabus, although CSci651 is 4 units and CSci551 is 3 units. In general, we expect CSci651 to be offered every fall and CSci551 every semesters, although not always (in FA2015 only CSci651 is offered, for example).
- The midterm will be in class on Monday October 12 and the final will definitely be at the university mandated time of Monday, Dec. 14, 8am-10am. Exam dates and times are mandatory. I do not do make-up exams. If you have travel plans, please schedule accordingly.
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We will begin lecture on first day class, including discussing the papers for that day (listed below). Students are strongly encouraged to download the papers for the first day and read them before coming to class. (For classes after the first day, reading the papers before-hand is required.)
The first four papers are publicly available on the web:
- The remainder of the papers will be available only through the moodle.