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Instructor:

Prof. Dr. Xiaoming Fu

Teaching Assistants:

Ingo Juchem
Fang-Chun (Vicky) Kuo

Course Description:

The course objectives for Praktikum Telematik include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Learning to architect, develop, and test an example network application based on the TCP/IP network infrastructure.
• Learning to work effectively in a team environment and project-style development.
• Developing your written and oral communication skills in English.
• Becoming proficient with software development tools and networking environments, using standard programming language C/C++/Java/... and tools (such as CVS, Eclipse).
• Integrating everything you have learned in your other computer science courses.

The course is organized as two independent projects, each consisting of one to two subgroups (each comprises 3~4 people). You have to choose a project and your co-worker by your own. Note, this depends on the number of participants: if there are more than 8 people, then two projects will be conducted; otherwise, only project 1 is required. Before starting your project work, an introduction to socket programming and project related information (e.g., how to read RFCs etc.) will be given.

Project 1: IRC client implementation
Single group of 3-4 people
Tasks:

• Implement an IRC-client capable of interacting with most IRCds
• The client must be able to interact with XDCC-Bots.
• Your client must collect IP-Addresses by auto-connecting to various channels on various servers (channel/server configuration can be static in a file).
• The gathered Adresses must be exported to an XML-File for further processing.
• a final presentation is mandatory
• a project report is mandatory


• Note: There may be more optional tasks to perform depending on group size.

Participants: Arne Bochem, Benjamin Maas, and David Weiss

Final project deliverables:

• Project presentation
• Project report
• Software release

Project 2: Email client application supporting SMTP and POP3
Single group of 3-4 people
Tasks:

• Provides a graphical user interface (GUI), with fields:
• Sender's email address
• Recipient's email address
• Subject
• Message
• Establish a TCP connection directly between the mail user agent and the recipient's mail server. Thus the message will not be relayed through the sender's mail server, as is usually the case.
• Sends and receives the SMTP and POP3 commands and data to deliver the message to the recipient's mail server.
• A delete function that removes individual emails
• Handles the case where the mail domain does not designate a machine running an SMTP or POP3 server, as explained in RFC 974.
• A final presentation is mandatory
• A project report is mandatory
• Note: There may be more optional tasks to perform depending on group size.

Final project deliverables:

• Project presentation
• Project report
• Software release

For each project students are required to organize the work effectively according to the streamline of a realistic project, including  milestones (task and time allocation, deliverables) definition, implementation and revision, reports of design, implementation, test results and intermediate results etc. Each project will elect a project leader who should be responsible for directing and regularly reporting the overall progress of the team.

Prerequisite: Computer Networks course or equivalent

General Schedule:

Course time: Friday 14-16.
First lecture: 20.04.2007.
Room: SW-Seminar room

fu--at--informatik.uni-goettingen.de