Performance

Addtional Notes (First lecture introduction)

Prerequisite

2105

  • understand host, protocol, throughput, bottle-neck, store and forward and autonomous syterm
  • Five layers
  • Pros and cons of packet switching vs cicuit switching
  • Different components of end to end delay

3103

  • Intro-Domain routing in detail
  • UDP and TCP
  • Security Fundamentals
  • Multimedia Basics, RTP, RTSP, VoIP, with SIP
  • Traffic Engineering with MPLS
  • Configuring/Programming open switch (SDN)

CS3103 vs CS4226

  • CS3103: Protocol & more practical/hands-on experience & vertical view (Protocol stack)
  • CS4226: Network Architectures & design principles, model, theory and analysis & horizontal view (Architecture design)
    • Resource allocation, content delivery netowrks and economics of the ecosystem, iter-domain routing

Tenative topics of CS4226

  • Internet Ecosystem
    • Inter-Domain routing: BGP
    • Economics and Governance
  • Netowrk Architecture
    • Peer to peer networks
    • Content delivery Network
  • Network management paradigm
    • Software defined networking
  • Network Performance
    • Queuing model and analysis
    • Resource allocation and scheduling

Assignment

  • One written assignment 10%
  • One individual 20%
  • Midterm exam 30%
  • Final exam 40%