Fundamentals of Computer Networking: Local Area, Wide Area, and ATM Networks
- Introduction (1 hr)
- Trends in Networking: Why networking is hot?
- Layered Model of Protocols: OSI Reference Model
- Services/Protocol data units
- Datalink Control: (2.5 hrs)
- Flow Control: Stop and Wait, Sliding Window
- Error Control: Stop and Wait ARQ, Selective Reject, Go-back n
- Local Area Networks (4.5 hrs)
- Topologies: Star, Bus, Ring
- IEEE 802.3/Ethernet IEEE 802.5/Token ring
- FDDI
- Logical Link Control
- Routing (3 hrs)
- Virtual circuits vs Datagrams
- Dijkstra's Algorithm
- Bellman Ford Algorithm
- Internetworking (1 hrs)
- Transport (3 hrs)
- High Speed Networking (0.5 hrs)
- ATM Networks (4 hours)
- ATM Protocol Layers
- ATM Adaptation Layers: AAL1 through ALL5
- Network interfaces
- LAN Emulation
- IP Over ATM
- ATM Physical Layers
- ATM Signalling
- ATM Traffic Management (2.5 hours)
- Services: CBR, Real-time VBR, Non-Real time VBR, ABR, UBR
- Congestion Control vs Congestion Avoidance
- Rate vs Credit
- Source requirements
Biography
Professor Raj Jain is an active member of ATM Forum Traffic Management group and has influenced its direction considerably. He is a Fellow of IEEE, is the Vice-Chair of ACM SIGCOMM, and serves on the steering committee of IEEE Transactions on Networking and on the editorial boards of Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Computer Communications (UK), and the Journal of High Speed Networks. He is the author of two popular books: ``FDDI Handbook: High Speed Networking using Fiber and Other Media'' published by Addison-Wesley and "The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis" published by Wiley.
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