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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 provided and discussed during the exercise class. Therefore, individual feedback will not be provided.

Exercise Hand-out Date Responsible Discussion Date Remarks
Exercise 1 (PDF, 229 KB) 22.09.2022 Jan von der Assen 29.09.2022 (BIN-1-B.01)

- Introduction to Computer Networks

- Architectures, Services, and Protocols

Exercise 2 (PDF, 696 KB) 29.09.2022 Jan von der Assen 06.10.2022 (Virtual!)

- Networking Concepts

- Resource Sharing

- Physical Media

Exercise 3 (PDF, 250 KB) 06.10.2022 Jan von der Assen 13.10.2022
(BIN-1-B.01)
- Reliable Transmission
Exercise 4 (PDF, 229 KB) 13.10.2022 Jan von der Assen 20.10.2022
(BIN-1-B.01)
- Shared Direct Links
Exercise 5 (PDF, 267 KB) 20.10.2022 Jan von der Assen 27.10.2022
(BIN-1-B.01)
- Routing and Switching
Exercise 6 (PDF, 256 KB) 27.10.2022 Jan von der Assen 03.11.2022
(BIN-1-B.01)
- Routing and End-to-end Protocols
Exercise 7 (PDF, 287 KB) 03.11.2022 Jan von der Assen 10.11.2022
(BIN-1-B.01)
- Applications and Mechanisms
Exercise 8 (PDF, 238 KB) 10.11.2022 Katharina Müller 17.11.2022
(BIN-1-B.01)
- Introduction to Distributed Systems
Exercise 9 (PDF, 500 KB) 17.11.2022 Katharina Müller 24.11.2022
(BIN-1-B.01)
- Naming and Distributed File Systems
Exercise 10 (PDF, 380 KB) 24.11.2022 Katharina Müller 01.12.2022
(BIN-1-B.01)
- Synchronization
Exercise 11 (PDF, 220 KB) 01.12.2022 Katharina Müller 08.12.2022
(BIN-1-B.01)
- Coordination
Exercise 12 (PDF, 232 KB) 08.12.2022 Katharina Müller 15.12.2022
(BIN-1-B.01)
- Systems in use
Exercise 13 (PDF, 305 KB) 15.12.2022 Katharina Müller 22.12.2022
(BIN-1-B.01)
- Security

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