17–19 Sept 2025
Tehnical University of Moldova
Europe/Bucharest timezone

Building Network Devices as a Networking Class Homework Infrastructure

18 Sept 2025, 16:15
15m
Room 1

Room 1

Technical University of Moldova
Paper presentation Doctoral Symposium

Speaker

Mr Mihai-Valentin Dumitru (National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest)

Description

Undergraduate networking courses aim to teach students how the Internet works. While existing approaches cover everything from using the sockets API to configuring networks, there is less focus on the devices that constitute the Internet infrastructure.

In this work, we introduce a homework infrastructure developed at University Politehnica of Bucharest to teach students key protocols within the TCP/IP stack through implementing their own network devices. We document the essential design decisions and make the platform publicly available.

Authors

Vlad-Andrei Badoiu (National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest) Mr Mihai-Valentin Dumitru (National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest) Dr Catalin Leordeanu (National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest) Prof. Costin Raiciu (National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest)

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