Advanced Data Networks

Objective:

The purpose of the lecture is to give you more knowledge and skills in the domain of computer networking. Both theoretical and practical knowledge will be acquired.

Targeted skills & Pre-requisite

The lecture is a follow-up of the basic computer networking course and provides a more detailed view on routing protocols, congestion control, and Quality of Service. Lab exercises and manipulations will provide some practical knowledge of advanced protocols.

Students should have taken the basic computer networking course.

- Routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP) - Congestion control - Quality of service - MPLS - SNMP - Case study Next Generation Data Center Architecture

Content:

1. Routing:
   • at Layer 2 - Spanning Tree Protocol
   • internal routing (RIP, OSPF)
   • external routing (BGP)
2. Congestion control:
   • fairness
   • AIMD algorithm
   • TCP variants (Reno, Cubic, BBR)
3. Quality of Service:
   • token bucket, scheduling
   • MPLS
4. Case study
   • Next Generation Data Center Architecture

Lecturers

   Andrzej Duda
   Martin Heusse