Instructor: Xiaojun Lin
Office: MSEE 340
Tel: 765-494-0626
E-mail: linx@ecn.purdue.edu
Office hour: MW 10-11AM, or by appointment
Homepage: min.ecn.purdue.edu/~ee547, or min.ecn.purdue.edu/~linx/ECE547

Class Helpers:
Can Zhao
Email: zhao43@ecn.purdue.edu
Office hour: Tuesday 1-3pm (On-campus students have priority).

Po-Kai Huang
Email: huang113@ecn.purdue.edu
Office hour: Thursday 10-11:30am (Off-campus students have priority).

Office: EE 306 (only during their office hours)
Tel: 765-494-8774 (only during their office hours)

Announcements

• (11/09/2009) Homework 6 and Solution to Homework 5 are posted.
• (10/30/2009) Project 2 is assigned.
• (10/29/2009) Sample exam for midterm 2 is posted in "Homework & Exams". Midterm 2 will be at 8pm Thursday, 11/12, ARMS 1109. As in Midterm 1, the exam is closed-book and closed-note. No calculator is allowed. You can bring a one-page letter-sized single-sided crib sheet. Midterm 2 will cover the materials after midterm 1 until Lecture 26 (flow control). The focus will be on data link layer and flow control. It will NOT cover TCP.
• (10/28/2009) Due ot my travel, the lecture on Monday (11/2) will be given by my Ph.D. student Joohwan Kim. I will give the lecture on Wednesday (11/4). There will be NO lecture on Friday (11/6).
• (10/28/2009) We are half-way through the semester already! I would like to take this opportunity to collect some feedbacks for the class. This will help me know how to help all students to learn the class materials better. Please complete the survey form here . Off-campus students can email the response to linx@ecn.purdue.edu. Any comments/suggestions will be most appreciated!!!
• (10/27/2009) Solution to project 1 is posted.
• (10/26/2009) Solution to homework 4 is posted.
• (10/23/2009) Midterm 1 has been graded and returned after today's lecture. For off-campus students, you should receive your exam paper in the mail. Please check the solution posted on the web, under "Homework and Exams". If you need to request a regrade, please submit a written request. For on-campus students, I need to receive your written request by 10/30. For off-campus students, I need to receive your written request one week after the day your receive the exam paper, but no later than 11/6. DO NOT MODIFY your exam paper. Instead, attached a note explaining which problem and what discrepancy that you found. Then submit the note AND your exam paper to either the instructor or the Class Helper. For off-campus students, your written request can be emailed to me, along with a scanned copy of your original exam paper.
• (10/21/2009) Homework 5 is assigned.
• (10/14/2009) Don't forget the midterm 1 at 8pm Thursday, 10/15, ARMS 1109. The instructor has an addition office hour on this Thursday, 10/15 from 3:30-4:30pm to answer any last minute questions. Good luck to the midterm.
• (10/09/2009) Solution to homework 3 is posted.
• (10/07/2009) Homework 4 is assigned.
• (10/01/2009) The due date for project 1 is extended to 10/09.
• (09/30/2009) Sample exam for midterm 1 is posted in "Homework & Exams".
• (09/30/2009) Information for off-campus students to access the C/C++ compiler and MATLAB on ECN machines is posted here .
• (09/16/2009) Project 1 is assigned.
• (09/14/2009) Off-campus students please email future homeworks to our grader at ee547gr@ecn.purdue.edu. To avoid confusion, please rename your scanned homework (in pdf) to "ece547hwX_LastName_FirstName.pdf", where "X" represents the homework number.
• (09/10/2009) Off-campus students need to apply for an ECN account (if you do not have one already). Complete and sign the form at the following address and email the form to the instructor by Wednesday 9/16:
  https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/Support/Accounts/PolicyConfirmation/request
  
• (09/10/2009) Solution to homework 1 is posted.
• (09/09/2009) Homework 2 is assigned.
• (08/26/2009) Homework 1 is assigned.
• Welcome to ECE 547!