Guia docente 2014_15 Escola de Enxeñaría de Telecomunicación

Máster Universitario en Enxeñaría de Telecomunicación

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1. Network modeling (I)	a) Links: Statistical Multiplexing and queues b) Delay and packet loss analysis in queues
2. Network modeling (II)	a) Queue networks b) Capacity of the network. Maximum flow minimum cut c) Utility function
3. Switches	a) Switch architecture b) IWQ and OQ switches c) MaxWeight Scheduling d) Low-complexity scheduling algorithms
4. Design and planning of Ethernet networks	a) VLAN Management and planning. VTP b) Advanced STP c) Link Aggregation d) Guidelines
5. Routing in Internet	a) Intradomain routing algorithms b) Interdomain Routing: BGP
6. Traffic Engineering and MPLS	a) Traffic Engineering b) MPLS basic concepts and description c) Label distribution d) MPLS and BGP
7. Tunnels and Overlay Networks	a) The concept of overlay network and tunnel b) Tunnels SSL, IPSec, L2TP, MPLS c) VPNs
8. Designing and planning of IP networks	a) ACLs and packet filtering b) Addressing: NAT and DHCP c) Guidelines d) The network of an ISP
9. IPv6 Networks	a) The IPv6 protocol. Differences with IPv4 b) Transition: Dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 tunnels c) Routing in IPv6 d) DNS and IPv6 e) ICMPv6 and Neighbor Discovery
10. Quality of Service	a) QoS basics b) Regulation and traffic monitoring c) Active queue management (AQM) d) Bandwidth scheduling e) Ethernet QoS: 802.1p f) IP QoS
11. Multimedia	a) Types of services and multimedia applications: VoIP, IPTV, VoD b) Impact of delay and losses in multimedia applications c) Objective and subjective quality d) Real-time Transport: RTCP, RTP, RTSP e) Signalling in IP networks: SIP f) Systems for Multimedia Streaming (UDP and HTTP Streaming)