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TSIN02 Internetworking
Lecture program
The lecture program is preliminary. There might be some changes.
| Nr | Date | Topic(s) | Lecturer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nov 7 | Introduction. Course details, global networks, Internet - Background and history, The basic principles, Layers - from modulation to application, Internet usage, Internet devices | RF |
| 2 | Nov 9 | Network-of-networks. Physical layer, Link layer, Small networks - Ethernet, Big networks - Internet. Network layer, Routing, Management | RF |
| 3 | Nov 14 | Transport and Application layers. UDP, TCP, DHCP. Special-purpose networks, NAT, MPLS, Mobile IP, Networks for IoT | RF |
| 4 | Nov 16 | Optical Networking - Transmission and components. Fiber optic cables, propagation issues, transmission windows, optical communication elements, optical amplifier, regeneration, TDM, WDM, CWDM, DWDM, optical layer, client layers for WDM networks. | GX |
| 5 | Nov 21 | Optical Networking - The Internet backbone. Telecom network hierarchy, different generations of optical networks, optical network node and switching elements, wavelength routed network, RWA problem, wavelength converter, static RWA problem, dynamic RWA problem. | GX |
| 6 | Nov 23 | Network economics. Current pricing situation in wireless access networks, utility and demand functions, arguments for usage-based rate, smart data pricing, time dependent pricing, waiting function, and price optimization problem. | GX |
| 7 | Nov 28 | Data center networks. Cloud computing, data center ingredients, advantages, and challenges, scalability problem in data center networks, interconnection network, Clos network, inter-datacenter networks. | GX |
| 8 | Nov 30 | Source coding and channel modeling. Sampling and quantization, lossy vs lossless compression, Distortion, MSE, SNR, JPEG, MPEG/H.265, Shannon limits, Gilbert-Eliott model, Transforming the best-effort channel. Error concealment. | RF |
| 9 | Dec 5 | Streaming video, QoS applications. Real-time and other service/application/network requirements. Multicast, eMBMS, scalable streaming protocols, RTSP/RTP/RTCP, layered streaming, HTTP-based Adaptive Streaming (HAS), P2P streaming, QoS, and QoE. | GX |
| 10 | Dec 7 | Network security. Security model(s), attacks on different OSI layers, IP spoofing, IPsec, Internet Key Exchange, TLS session hijacking, SSL/TLS, GSM and 3G security, mobile IP security, DNS Cache poisoning, DNSSec. | JÅL |
| 11 | Dec 12 | Guest lecture. TBA | |
| 12 | Dec 14 | Reserve. |
Lecturers
|GX|Guilherme B Xavier |RF|Robert Forchheimer