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Department of Informatics - Communication Systems Group

Exercises

There is a total of 13 exercise sheets for this course. The exercise sheet will be published every Thursday after the exercise session, based on the content of that day's lecture, and must be submitted until the following Wednesday by 23:59 using OLAT. Late submissions will not be accepted.

While submitting the exercise sheets is not mandatory, a 10% exam point bonus will be applied to your final grade if you submit at least 10 out of 13 exercise sheets, of which one must be exercise sheet 13 on the security of Computer Networks and Distributed Systems. 

 In order to receive the bonus, every student has to fulfill the following requirements:

  • Preparation and Submission of at least ten exercise sheets during the semester, before their respective deadline. The exercise on "Security" must be addressed by all students wishing to obtain the bonus.
  • Each submitted answer for the exercises should be complete and meet a proper level of quality.
  • Present solutions, when requested, during the exercise sessions.

The correct answers for the exercises will be discussed during the exercise class. Therefore, individual feedback will not be provided.

Exercise Hand-out Date Responsible Discussion Date Remarks
Exercise 1 (PDF, 238 KB) 21.09.2023 Jan von der Assen 28.09.2023

- Introduction to Computer Networks

- Architectures, Services, and Protocols

Exercise 2 (PDF, 704 KB) 28.09.2023 Jan von der Assen 05.10.2023 - Basic Concepts
Exercise 3 (PDF, 250 KB) 05.10.2023 Jan von der Assen 12.10.2023
-> Virtual (OLAT)
- Reliability
Exercise 4 (PDF, 233 KB) 12.10.2023 Jan von der Assen 19.10.2023 - Shared Media
Exercise 5 (PDF, 268 KB) 19.10.2023 Jan von der Assen 26.10.2023 - Routing and Switching
Exercise 6 (PDF, 256 KB) 26.10.2023 Jan von der Assen 02.11.2023 - Routing, End-to-End Protocols
Exercise 7 (PDF, 288 KB) 02.11.2023 Jan von der Assen 09.11.2023 - Applications and Mechanisms
Exercise 8 (PDF, 238 KB) 09.11.2023 Katharina Müller 16.11.2023 - Introduction to Distributed Systems
Exercise 9 (PDF, 494 KB) 16.11.2023 Katharina Müller 23.11.2023

- Naming

- Distributed File Systems

Exercise 10 (PDF, 381 KB) 23.11.2023 Katharina Müller 30.11.2023

- Synchronization in Distributed Systems

Exercise 11 (PDF, 220 KB) 30.11.2023 Katharina Müller 07.12.2023

- Coordination

Exercise 12 (PDF, 475 KB) 07.12.2023 Katharina Müller 14.12.2023

- Distributed Systems in Use

         
         
         
         

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