Advanced Computer Networking

Course Description:

Research, design and implementation of high-performance computer networks and distributed systems. This class will allow students to develop knowledge and expertise in high speed networking technologies, multimedia networks, enterprise network security and management, client/server applications, mobile communication and state-of-art Internetworking solutions.

Instructor:

Instructor	Dr. Min-You Wu
Office	Room 224C, ENGR
Office Hours	Tuesday, 1:30-3:30pm
Phone	505-277-1078
E-mail	wu@eece.unm.edu
Homepage	http://www.eece.unm.edu/~wu

Textbook:

James Kurose and Keith Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, second edition, ISBN 0-201-97699-4, Addison-Wesley Longman, 2003.

Reference Books:

William Stallings, Wireless Communications and Networks, ISBN 0-13-040864-6, Prentice Hall, 2002.

George Abe, Residential Broadband, CISCO Press, 2nd Edition, ISBN 1-57870-177-5, 2000.

Topics:

Class Meeting: ENGR 210, 11:00 -- 12:15 Thursday

Final report and presentation slides are due May 11.

Schedule

Online Materials

Reading Lists

Homeworks:

Homework #1

Homework #1 Solution

Homework #2

Homework #2 Solution

Projects:

Project Topics

Schedule for presentation

Project Slides:

Profiling Video Game Traffic

Metric Measurement of the Network Graph

Multi-hop Wireless Network: Channel Assignment

Multicast Overlay: Online Course with VIC

Grade

Important Websites:

• Internet Society (ISOC)
• Internet Engineering Task Force (IEIF)
• Overview
• Working Groups
• Internet-Drafts
• Internet Research Task Force (IRIF)
• Request for Comments(RFCs)
• Overview
• Online Database
• ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM)
• IEEE Communications Society (IEEECOMM)

Resources:

• NS-2 --- The Network Simulator
• NS-Manual
• NS by Example, by Jae Chung and Mark Claypool at WPI, an excellent tutori\ al!
• NS Tutorial by Marc Greis
• NS Hierarchy of classes, by Antoine Clerget at FRANCE
• Nam: Network Animator
• Topology Generation
• OTcl and TclCL Home
• Web Traceroute Gateways
• Tools Page for Networking Developed by Professor Kenneth Christensen at the University of South Florida\ . The tools page contains downloadable tools primarily related to performance evaluation of computer ne\ tworks and to TCP/IP sockets programming. .
• The cnet network simulator (v1.5), Developed by Professor Chris McDonald \ at the University of Western Australia. The cnet network simulator enables experimentation with various data link layer, network layer\ , routing and transport layer protocols, and with various network configurations.
• Tutorial sites
• Tutorial: Insight Into Current Internet Traffic Workloads, at NLANR
• Tutorial on Internet Monitoring & PingER at SLAC

Relevant Websites:

• Network Bibliography with about 44,700 references, provided by Prof. Henning Schulzrinne at C\ olumbia University.
• World Wide Web
• Internet 2
• vBNS, MCI very high performance Backbone Network Service
• Abilene Network
• I2-DSI, Internet2 Distributed Storage Infrastructure
• I2-QoS, I2 Quality of Service, QBone
• I2-Middleware,
• I2-DV, I2 Digital Video
• ITU, International Telecommunication Uni\ on
• ATM Forum
• MREN, Metropolitan Research and Education Network
• NLANR, National Laboratory for Applied Network Research
• Official MPEG, Moving Picture Experts Group
• MPEG, Moving Picture Experts Group