EEC273/ECS258, Winter 2012: Lecture Schedule

Subject to change

Week

Date

Topic

References

Homework/Comments

1

Jan 10

Course overview and logistics

Introduction/overview

Review notes on SmartSite

Reading assignment#1

 

Jan 12

End-to-End Argument

Packet-Switched Network & Internet  [Case study]

[SRC84], [Cla88], [Cla00]

 

2

Jan 17

Circuit-Switching & Telephone networks [Case study]

-          Space and Time-Division Switches

-          Strict-sense vs. Rearrangeably Non-blocking

-          Traffic Load Characterization

 

HW#1 assigned

 

Jan 19

Performance modeling/analysis

-          Modeling a single queue

-          Erlang blocking/delay for circuit switched networks

 

 

3

Jan 24

Performance modeling/analysis (Cont’d)

-          Queuing delay models, Jackson networks

-          Reality check: single-hop delay measurements

Project discussions

[PM+02] [HV+05]

 

 

Jan 26

Intra- and Inter-domain traffic engineering

[FRT02], [FBR03]

 HW#1 due

 HW#2 assigned

4

Jan 31

Beyond Best Effort: application- vs. network-based QoS

Integrated Service

-          RSVP

-          Admission control

-          Packet scheduling (CBQ, WFQ, Token Buckets, etc) 

[RFC1633], [ZDE93]

 

 

Feb 2

Differentiated Services;

Active Queue Management (RED)

[RFC2475], [NJZ97]

Project Proposal due

5

Feb 7

OpenFlow/Software Defined Networking (SDN)

Guest Speaker: Dr. Srinivasan Seetharaman, Deutsche Telekom

[MA+08], [CM+11]



 

Feb 9

Data center: Architecture and traffic engineering

[BAM10], [VL2’09]

HW#2 due

6

Feb 14

Midterm Quiz (in class)

 

 

 

Feb 16

Network management; configuration management

 

HW#3 assigned

7

Feb 21

Network trouble shooting

Autonomic networking/management

 

 

 

Feb 23

Energy efficient networking

 

Project progress report due

8

Feb 28

Network security: routing security, naming security

 

 

 

Mar 1

Cellular & mobile

Guest Speaker: Dr. Hui Zang, Sprints-Nextel

 

 

9

Mar 6

Privacy

Guest Speaker: Dr. Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT&T-Research

 

 

 

Mar 8

Research Perspective on Cloud Connectivity

Guest Speaker: Dr. Puneet Sharma, Hewlett-Packard Labs

 

 

10

Mar 13

Vehicular ad hoc networks

 

 

 

Mar 15

Final Project Presentations

Location TBD

 

Project Report Due Mar 18 by midnight