CSE 222 - Communication Networks - F'98

Announcements

• The final exam will be

• 12/08/98   Tues   03:00 P  05:59 P  in Peterson Hall 102

• Taxi Problem (PostScript).
• a previous year's midterm (PostScript).

• People are still looking for people to apply queueing theory for real...

-GP

General

• syllabus (PostScript and LaTeX are also available).
• project ideas

• ns (a network simulator) has been installed and is available to the class for projects.
• The main site for ns with documentation, sources and examples: http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/ns
• The local starting page for ns, thanks to George Xylomenos.

Course Material

(future material is tentative)

• M 09-28
• Introduction
• Switching methodologies: circuit, store-and-forward, message, packet, cell...
• slides [b&w, 4/page PostScript], [color, PostScript]
• W 09-30
• Network protocol architectures, layering...
• about the project...
• READ: chapters 2 and 3 of the text
• M 10-05
• Cell switching (slides: text,figures (3MB) [PostScript])
• (the figures are scanned bitmaps... It might not be worthwhile to download or print the figures)
• READ: chapter 4 of the text
• W 10-07
• Overview of ATM (slides: text,figures (19MB) [PostScript])
• M 10-12, SDSC Auditorium (map)
• Hans-Werner Braun: NLANR, IP flows, network traffic measurements and visualization
• W 10-14, regular place (HSS 1305)
• George Xylomenos: IP Multicast for Point-to-Point Networks, QoS provision for Internet traffic over Wireless Links
• READ: section 5.2 of the text and the paper below
• M 10-19
• ATM switching (slides [PostScript or text])
• Biagioni, E.; Cooper, E.; Sansom, R.; "Designing a practical ATM LAN," IEEE Network, vol.7, no.2, pp. 32-39, March 1993.
• W 10-21
• IP, IPv6 (sections 11.1-2)
• M 10-26
• ISA, Fair Queueing (sections 11.3-4)
• For a more comprehensive overview, you may want to read:
• Hui Zhang, "Service disciplines for guaranteed performance service in packet-switching networks," Proceedings of the IEEE, Oct. 1995, vol.83, (no.10):1374-96 (available temporarily as PS here)
• W 10-28
• RED (section 11.5)
• ATM congestion control (chapter 12)
• M 11-02
• Karlsson, G.; "Asynchronous Transfer of Video," SICS Research Report R95:14, Kista, Sweden, 1995 (available through a-ftp [compressed PostScript (30 pages, 104 references] or temporarily [PS] locally).
• W 11-04
•  J.C. Pasquale, G.C. Polyzos and G. Xylomenos, "The Multimedia Multicasting Problem," Multimedia Systems, ACM/Springer, vol. 6, no. 1, 1998, pp. 43-59. Plaintext Abstract, Postscript (16 pages, 183K)
• M 11-09
• Multimedia Multicast (cont.) + quick review of prob.
• W 11-11
• Elements of Performance Analysis and Queueing Theory
• Some slides on Elementary Queueing Theory (PostScript)
• Some additional slides on Queueing
• M 11-16
• cont.
• W 11-18
• cont. (+ taxi problem + statistical mux problem + project discussion)
• M 11-23
• RTP, RTCP (section 10.4, pp. 281-295) + project presentations/discussion
• W 11-25
• RSVP (section 15.2, pp. 444-457)
• M 11-30
• IP Switching (IP flows, IP over ATM, section 15.3, pp. 458-466); here are some related slides (PS)
• W 12-2
• TCP/IP over wireless (PostScript of slides and a survey paper) + project demos

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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