Guia docente 2020_21 Escola de Enxeñaría de Telecomunicación

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1. Switching architectures	1.1. Data and control plane. Distributed and centralized control 1.2. Switching architectures. Types of switches 1.3. Queue models for switches and communication networks
2. Network virtualization	2.1. Network virtualisation 2.2. Virtual switches 2.3. Level 2 overlay virtualization 2.4. Ethernet VLANs. VLAN Trunking. 2.5. QinQ and MAC-in-MAC tunnels 2.6. MAC-in-IP tunnels: VXLAN, NVGRE
3. Data Center Networks	3.1. The network of a Data Center 3.2. 3 level hierarchical architecture 3.3. Leaf & Spine Architecture 3.4. Technologies for optimising the use of available bandwidth: MSTP, TRILL, SPB, ECMP
4. Intradomain Internet routing: OSPF	4.1. Hierarchical routing on the Internet. Domains, AS and ISPs 4.2. Protocols for intradomain routing 4.3. OSPF 4.4. Types of OSPF areas
5. Inter-AS routing: BGP	5.1. BGP. 5.2. Attributes and path selection
6. Route filtering	6.1. Route Filtering. Lists and route-maps 6.2. Route filtering in BGP 6.3. BGP Communities 6.4. BGP and Data Centers
7. Traffic engineering. MPLS-TE	7.1. Traffic Engineering 7.2. MPLS-TE
8. QoS architectures in ISPs	8.1. Basic concepts of QoS 8.2. Classification and traffic marking 8.3. Traffic policing and shaping 8.4. Buffer and bandwidth scheduling 8.5. DiffServ Architecture
9. SDN and NFV	9.1. Software Defined Networks (SDN). Key features 9.2. SDN controllers 9.3. OpenFlow 9.4. Network virtualization in SDN. Network Slicing in 5G 9.5. Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) 9.6. SDN and NFV
10. Transport and Access Networks	10.1. Fibre access: Metroethernet. FTTx, GPON 10.2. Radio Access Network. CRAN: Backhaul and Fronthaul. 10.3. Optical transport networks.