Educational guide 2014_15 Escola de Enxeñaría de Telecomunicación

Grao en Enxeñaría de Tecnoloxías de Telecomunicación

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1. Introduction	a) Network Infrastructure: Nodes, links and netwoks b) Circuit and Packet Switching c) Communications Architecture: Layers, encapsulating, models
2. Packet Networks. Internet	a) Performance: Throughput, delays, losses b) The Internet ecosystem
3. Links and subnetworks	a) Concept of link and subnetwork b) Interconnection of networks at level 2: Bridges
4. Ethernet and WiFi	a) Ethernet Switching. b) VLANs and trunking c) Spanning Tree d) WiFi networks
5. Internet and IP	a) Interconnection of subnetworks. Routers b) IP Addressing c) IP datagram format d) Fragmentation e) The ICMP protocol
6. IP Forwarding	a) IP Forwarding mechanism b) Connected and Next-Hop Routes c) The DHCP protocol
7. Name and address translation	a) ARP b) DNS c) NAT
8. Routing	a) Graph theory. Shortest distance paths b) Link state: Dijkstra's algorithm c) Distance vector: Bellman-Ford d) Broadcast routing
9. Internet routing	a) Routing hierarchy b) Intradomain routing: RIP, OSPF c) Interdomain routing: BGP
10. Midterm Exam	Lectures 1 to 7
11. Transport protocols	a) Service model b) TCP & UDP c) Transport connections: establishment, retransmissions, flow control
12. Congestion control	a) Network model b) Dynamics, fairness and stability c) TCP Reno, Vegas, FAST
13. Web. Content distribution networks	a) HTTP protocol b) Proxy web. Caching. Persistence c) Content distribution networks: architecture and operations
14. Network security	a) Vulnerabilities. Protection c) Secure network and transport layers c) Denial of service. Spoofing d) Fundamentals of cryptography e) Digital signatures