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Practical Issues in Computer Networks and Internetworks

Objectives:

After the successful completion of the course the student should:

  • learn how to design and configure networks to study and solve operational and performance issues under constraints, e.g., design a protocol taking into account the energy consumption of battery-limited devices in a wireless environment
  • use modern network management approaches to control and monitor the performance of networks
  • understand and describe the key benefits of recent networking paradigms, such as the Software-Defined Networks (SDN), the Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), the lightweight cloud solutions and the Internet of Things (IoT).
  • familiarize with networks simulation, emulation and real experimentation to study and explain operation and performance issues

Skills:

Hands-on experience, networks simulation, network components' configuration and management

Prerequisites:

Computer Networks (Internet architecture, TCP/IP networks, local networks, broadband networks)

Content:

This course's main objective is on the practical issues related to the implementation of networked systems, from the local area view to the wide area internetworks. Emphasis is given to familiarize students with the metrics evaluating the networks' performance, the widely used network protocols and mechanisms, the routing algorithms, the queue management models, the reliability issues of the different network layers, the flow/congestion control mechanism of TCP as well as the management of networking equipment (e.g., switches or routers). To get a deeper understanding of these issues, we evaluate and compare different mechanisms and protocols through simulation. Finally, to get hands-on experience the course contains a set of lab assignments and a project. Last but not least, the students will implement real experiments using the Emulab platform.

Textbooks:

  • V. Tsaoussidis, L. Mamatas, I. Psaras, S. Kosmidis, «Εργαστηριακά Μαθήματα στα Δίκτυα Υπολογιστών», Klidarithmos Press, 2010
  • Larry L. Peterson and Bruce S. Davie, Computer Networks, A Systems Approach, 5th ed., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., 2001
  • Tsaoussidis, «Διαδικτυακά Πρωτόκολλα», Klidarithmos Press, 2004

Assessment:

Homework assignment (40%)

Written final examination (60%)

Webpage:

http://compus.uom.gr/MINF203

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