Florida International University

School of Computing and Information Sciences

S. Masoud Sadjadi’s Home Page

CEN 4500 HOME PAGE

---

Project Description

        In this project, you will implement a TCP- or UDP based client-server communication application in Java (preferred) or C/C++, in a group of  4 to 6 students. You need to come up with a problem that will be solved using your application. The problem statements are due by the beginning of the third lecture. You need to choose a project coordinator for your group who will be in charge of assigning tasks and coordinating the group meetings. In general, the client-side and the server-side of the application would need to communicate using TCP or UDP and do something interesting (solve the problem). Your application needs to have a Graphic User Interface (GUI) so that your demo becomes more interesting.

        You will need to put all your deliverables on a CD and deliver before the last day of the class. The CD should include:

• The source code (with useful comments)
• Presentation slides (to be used during your presentation/demo)
• Use this template as a guide for preparing your presentation slides.
• Project report
• The problem statement
• The overall application-level protocol design
• The programming design
• Major interfaces
• The Service Primitives
• Any other major interfaces, if any
• List of operations with their completer signature
1. Operation name
2. Parameter types
3. Return type.
• Classes (if C++ or Java)
• Basically the classes involved to implement of the service
• And any other supportive classes
• Class Diagram including
1. Data members
2. Methods
3. Relations (association, aggregation, etc.)
• Sequences
• Course grain sequence of interactions between the corresponding protocol entities
• Include all major sequences and provide enough description for each
• See Figure 6-11, on page 501 of your textbook, for an example.
• Statechart Diagram
• Provide a matrix similar to that of Figure 6-21, on page 523 of your textbook.
• Provide a graphical form similar to that of Figure 6-22, on page 525 of your textbook.
• Representative input/output (testing data)
• The user manual
• How to compile
• How to install
• How to use

---

Last modified 4/16/2007