• Introduction (2 weeks)
  • Evolution of the Internet (Architecture, Protocols and Applications)
  • Evolution of packet switches and routers, basic architectural components, some example architectures
  • Network Processors and Packet Processing
  • Architecture and operation of “optical” circuit-switched switches/routers

• High-Performance Packet Switches/Routers: VOQ (2 weeks)

  • Architectural alternatives
  • Virtual output queued (VOQ) switches
  • Design and analysis of unicast arbitration algorithms
  • Providing quality-of-service guarantees on VOQ switches

• •Network-on-chip (NoC) Design and Applications  (2 weeks)

  • –Introduction to NoC
  • –Communication Performance, Organizational Structure, Interconnection Topologies, Trade-offs in Network Topology, and Routing
  • –Applications of NoC in network Equipment
  • –Future trends of this paradigm

• Output-queued and Shared Memory Switches (1 weeks)

  • Architectures, performance, and problems
  • Output scheduling: Motivation - providing bandwidth and delay guarantees, fairness - definitions and algorithms, practical considerations and practical algorithms, end-to-end delay guarantees
  • Differentiated Services

• Quality of Service on the Internet and Active Queue Management (1 week)

  • QoS paradigms (IntServ, DiffServ, Controlled load, etc.)
  • Provision of Quality of Service on the Internet (MPLS, Openflow)
  • Active queue management: Introduction and motivation, dropping packets to reduce congestion, dropping packets for QoS, packet dropping vs. packet scheduling, theory, practical algorithms.

• Optical Technology for Internet “Circuit-Switched” Switches and Routers (1 week)

  • Introduction and motivation
  • Optical Technology
  • Architectural alternatives
  • Switch configuration and scheduling algorithms
  • Burst switch architectures
  • Traffic Engineering using MPLS

• Design and Variations of TCP protocols (1 week)

  • Introduction and motivation
  • The various alternatives to TCP
  • TCP for Wireless

• Internet Wireless Access Methods (1 weeks)

  • WLANs and 802.11
  • WiMAX and 802.11
  • Cellular

• Performance Evaluation of Networking Architectures and Protocols (1 week)

  • Introduction and motivation
  • Simulations Methods
  • Modeling Methods

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