High Performance Networking

Unit 1

Switching Networks: Switching - Packet switching - Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI, DQDB, Frame Relay, SMDS, Circuit Switched - SONET, DWDM, DSL, Intelligent Networks - CATV, ATM - Features, Addressing, Signaling & Routing, Header Structure, ATM Adaptation layer, Management control, BISDN, Internetworking with ATM.

Unit 2

Multimedia Networking Applications : Streaming stored Audio and Video, Best effort service, protocols for real time interactive applications, Beyond best effort, scheduling and policing mechanism, integrated services, RSVP- differentiated services.

Unit 3

Advanced Networks Concepts: VPN-Remote-Access VPN, site-to-site VPN, Tunneling to PPP, Security in VPN. MPLS operation, Routing, Tunneling and use of FEC, Traffic Engineering, and MPLS based VPN, overlay networksP2P connections.-IPv4vs V6.

Unit 4

Packet Queues And Delay Analysis: Littles theorem, Birth and Death process, queueing discipline- Control & stability -, Markovian FIFO queueing system, Non-markovian - Pollaczek- Khinchin formula and M/G/1, M/D/1, self-similar models and Batch-arrival model, Networks of Queues - Burkes theorem and Jackson Theorem.

Unit 5

Network Security And Management: Principles of cryptography - Elliptic-AES- Authentication - integrity - key distribution and certification- Access control and: fire walls - DoS-attacks and counter measures - security in many layers.Infrastructure for network management - The internet standard management framework - SMI, MIB,SNMP, Security and administration - ASN.1.

REFERENCES:

1. Aunurag Kumar, D.

Manjunath, Joy Kuri, “Communication Networking”, MorganKaufmann Publishers, 2011.

2. J.F. Kurose & K.W. Ross, “Computer Networking- A Top Down Approach Featuring the Internet”, Pearson, 2nd Edition, 2003.