CIS788.08Q : Recent Advances in Networking 1995: Course Description

This course was offerred by Dr. Raj Jainin the Summer quarter of 1995. The course offers State of the Arttopics in Networking. The course is a combination of classroom lectures, homeworks, a project and self reading.

All 1995 Student project reportsare available on-line.

The course discusses the following topics :

  1. Networking Trends

  2. High Speed Network Design

  3. Telecommunication Networks
    1. Digital Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) Hierarchy
    2. Synchronous Optical Network (SONET)
      1. Protocol Componets of SONET
      2. Protocol Hierarchy
      3. Synchronous Transport Signal (STS) Frame Formats

  4. Integrated Service Digital Network (ISDN)
    1. ISDN Architecture
    2. ISDN Functional Groupings
    3. ISDN Protocols

  5. Signaling
    1. Common Channel Signaling
    2. Signaling Modes
    3. SS7 Signaling System
    4. SS7 Protocol Architecture

  6. Frame Relay
    1. Key features
    2. Relay vs Switching
    3. Frame Relay User to Network Interface (UNI) Architecture
    4. Signalling

  7. Switched Multimegabit Data Service (SMDS)
    1. Routing with SMDS
    2. SMDS Addressing
    3. SMDS Interface Protocol (SIP)
    4. Frame Relay Access to SMDS

  8. ATM Networks
    1. IP over ATM
    2. LAN Emulation
    3. Traffic Management in ATM Networks
      1. Traffic Contract Parameters
        1. Peak Cell Rate (PCR)
        2. Cell Transfer Variation (CTV)
        3. Cell Delay Variation (CDV)
          1. Peak-to-peak CDV
          2. Instantaneous CDV
        4. Cell Delay Variation Tolerance (CDVT)
      2. Method for Congestion Control - Leaky bucket
      3. Algorithms for Traffic Management
        1. Generic Cell Rate Algorithm (GCRA)
          1. Virtual Scheduling Algorithm
          2. Leaky Bucket Algorithm
      4. Control Mechanisms
        1. Generic Flow Control (GFC)
        2. Fair Queueing
        3. Priority Control
        4. Selective Cell Discarding
        5. Early Packet Discard
    4. Congestion Control : The OSU Approach
      1. Credit Based
        1. Static
        2. Adaptive
      2. Rate Based
        1. Binary
        2. Explicit
      3. Congestion Avoidance
      4. Switch Algorithm
    5. PNNI : Routing in ATM Networks

  9. All-Optical Networks
    1. Key technologies
      1. Tunable Lasers
      2. Fast tuning receivers
      3. Frequency converters
      4. Amplifiers
      5. Splitters
      6. Combiners
    2. Physical Topologies
      1. Bus
      2. Star
      3. Tree
      4. Mesh
    3. Attenuation and Dispersion

  10. Multimedia
    1. Compression Methods and Standards
      1. Joint Pictures Experts Group (JPEG)
      2. Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG)
    2. Multimedia over ATM
    3. Internet Multicast backbone (MBone)
    4. IP Multimedia Tools
See also:
Congestion Control Schemes for TCP/IP Networks
The P-Square Algorithm for Dynamic Calculation of Percentiles and Histograms


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