9. explain the issues for network management arising from a range of security threats, including viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and denial of-service attacks. 10. summarize the strengths and weaknesses associated with different approaches to security. 12. summarize compression techniques suitable for text, audio, image and video information. 13. illustrate how a program like the UNIX compress utility, which uses Huffman coding and the Ziv-Lempel algorithm, would compress a typical text file. Plan on one or two homework sets per week for a total of 24 sets at 10 points each.
Correctness is desirable.
However, completeness will be included when grading these exercises. If this is the case each laboratory will be worth 40 points towards your final grade. Each laboratory will have a brief written lab report associated with it. If, due to technical limitations, we are unable to have three laboratories an alternate paper assignment will be created. There will be days when discussion is NOT important.