Building an Internet Router
Schedule - Software
All deliverables are due no later than 23:59.
| Milestone | Time Alotted | Due Date | Deliverable(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Develop a functional router in software | 2 weeks | Thu 14-Oct | Checkpoint deliverable. Email summarizing your progress getting the VNS stub set up: building and connecting with VNS services at Stanford |
| Fri 15-Oct | Design document with overview of router architecture | ||
| Thu 28-Oct | Working software router (as described by this milestone) | ||
| Develop a router-router protocol in software router | 2 weeks | Thu 28-Oct | Router-router protocol section of the design document |
| Thu 04-Nov | 1. Router with fully implemented router-router protocol 2. HW+SW: Initial Proposal of Advanced Feature |
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| Adding Hardware Control to Router | 1 week | Thu 11-Nov | 1. Updated design document and software router with register access
support 2. HW+SW: Final Proposal of Advanced Feature |
| Advanced Feature Development and Router Interoperation | 4 weeks effective (*) | Thu 18-Nov | Design document with full specs of proposed advanced functionality |
| Thu 25-Nov | Proof of progress on advanced functionality | ||
| Thu 02-Dec | Proof of progress on advanced functionality | ||
| Sun 16-Jan-2011 | Final documentation and router with advanced functionality |
(*) You are expected to commit the equivalent of one in-term week worth of work to this module over the Christmas/New-Year vacation. No less than 20 Hours between the 2nd of December, 2009 and the deadline 16th of January, 2011.