Problem #$1$

The lead author $($Jim Kurose$)$ for the textbook is the Assistant Director of NSF for CISE. Answer the following questions. Be sure to cite your sources and correctly quote any words that are not your own words. The answers are not in your textbook.

a$)$ What is NSF is Jim Kurose's words?

b$)$ What is the FY $2017$ budget request for CISE? Roughly, what percentage of this budget could be for research in networks?

c$)$ Where does this money go$?$

d$)$ Name a government agency $($hint: it is not NSF$)$ that has played a major role in the creation of the Internet.

e$)$ How might NSF funding benefit you directly as a student?

Problem #$2$

a$)$ What is the largest engineered system ever created?

b$)$ What are the fundamental measures of a communication system as described in the class lecture?

c$)$ What are the open challenges in communication systems as described in the class lecture?

d$)$ One of the open challenges is "more robust". Explain this.. robust against what?

e$)$ What are the basic communications tasks that define networking $($and what we will study this semester$)$ as described in the class lecture?

Problem #$3$

Why are open standards important for protocols?

Problem #$4$

Answer the following short answer question $($each answer is a simple figure or one or two sentences$).$

a$)$ Sketch the five$-$layer internet protocol stack as the book defines it$.$ Show the location of the key interface $($that we will be covering in this class$).$ Given the name of$$the$$interface$.$