CS 925 Advanced Computer Networks

Course Topics

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Introduction

• What is the question?

Network performance modeling and estimation

• Queuing analysis
• Markov chains

Congestion and traffic management, Quality of Service (QoS)

• Fundamentals of congestion control and traffic management
• TCP congestion control
• Traffic and congestion control in other networking technologies
• Integrated and Differentiated Services
• Protocol support for QoS (RSVP, MPLS)
• Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV)

Unicast and multicast routing

• Review of fundamental graph algorithms
• Selected issues in unicast routing
• Multicast routing
• Internet topology characterization

Modern protocols for content delivery

• Video delivery using HTTP, HTTP Live Streaming, DASH
• Content Delivery Networks
• Rethinking HTTP: SPDY and HTTP 2.0
• Reducing latency: QUIC

Network-based precise time synchronization

• Absolute and relative time synchronization
• Existing solutions: NTP and IEEE 1588
• Distributed system design with precise time synchronization

Protocols for the Internet of Things (IoT)

• Characteristics of IoT networks, IoT communication patterns
• Examples of protocols: MQTT and oneM2M

Architectures of networking devices

• Switch/router architectures
• Basic interconnection networks

Optical network architectures

• Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM)
• Optical networks beyond point-to-point