The pages below describe the exercises, and discuss what you need to submit. A reminder: Please do not cheat. We will ask you to submit your code and data, and we will verify your results and check your code for plagiarism.

Details of Exercises

• Exercise 1: Intra-domain Route Oscillations
• Exercise 2: Blackholing, Sinkholing and Traceback.
• Exercise 3: Isolation and Service Differentiation for TCP Traffic

Result Submission

• Submit your exercise results to cs558ta@catarina.usc.edu with email's subject as follows.

• Exercise 1:  [cs558-ex1] submission
• Exercise 2:  [cs558-ex2] submission
• Exercise 3:  [cs558-ex3] submission

If you use a different subject line, you will be at risk to lose your submission due to the automatic email filtering.

Notes

• Start early: Each exercise is fairly involved. Do not underestimate the time it will take to perform the exercise.
• Slots: We will set up a schedule in the lab, to ensure that you have exclusive access, for certain periods of time, to machines that you will need. Each week, you will have two reserved 4-hour slots.
• Preparation: Prepare thoroughly before going into the lab to do your exercise. Read the relevant material before hand, and plan carefully what you want to do during the lab session.
• Scripting: Write perl scripts to automate as many of the tasks as you can. This is useful because you may need to do the experiment many times.