Dedicated and Contemporary Computer Networks

Course Title: Dedicated and Contemporary Computer Networks

Code: 3ФЕИТ07006А

ECTS points: 6 ECTS

Number of classes per week: 3+0+0+3

Lecturer: Prof. D-r Aristotel Tentov, PhD; Prof. D-r Danijela Efnusheva, PhD

Course Goals (acquired competencies): Acquiring knowledge of computer networks in different environments and systems: planes, aeronautical networks, transport networks and transport systems. Acquiring knowledge of protocols in modern computer networks for Gigabit transmission speeds.

Course Syllabus: Aeronautical networks. Civil and military airplane networks. Industrial plant control networks. Network infrastructure for real-time systems. Transport and transport system networks. Optical and wireless optical networks.  Routing protocols: EIGRP, OSPF, PNNI, IS-IS, RIP, reliable flooding; Hierarchical routing; EGP, BGP-4, CIDR. Availability, resilience, protection/renewal, quick re-routing; Quality of service (QoS)  QoS specification, traffic, characterization, basic mechanisms; Scheduling QoS architectures; Service guaranteeing; End-to-End adaptive applications, H.323 Architecture OverQoS; Content delivery; Traffic Engineering;  High-speed router design;   Second generation of network systems; Switch Fabric, Multi-Stage Fabrics; Forwarding, port mapping; Commutation and wiring;   Network processors: basic building block for programmable networks; CAM and Ternary CAM IXP ; XScale Core processor; Microengines – RISC processors; Micro-engine  C compiler.  Design challenges of modern Tera-bit commutatiors; 100Tb/s optical controller,  Commutation with labels and MPLS; MPLS; RSVP; Limited routing; Multicast; Multicast in LAN; IP Multicast architecture; IGMP; Application-level multicast.

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