High Speed Network

This course covers the current state-of-the-art in emerging high-speed network architectures, protocols and control algorithms. Topics include: basic architecture of packet networks and their network elements (switches, routers, bridges), and the protocols used to enable transmission of packets through the network. Network protocols: Ethernet, Internet, token rings, FDDI, Circuit-switched networks, ATM networks, switching, scheduling, naming, and addressing, routing, error control, flow control, traffic collection, modeling, and characterization, traffic management, connection admission control algorithms, and congestion control algorithms.