Educational guide 2023_24 Escola de Enxeñaría de Telecomunicación

Máster Universitario en Ingeniería de Telecomunicación

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
Topic 1: Queuing models for switches and communication networks	1.1. Specification and parameters of a queuing system. 1.2. Poisson Processes 1.3. Main queuing models 1.4. Queuing networks
Topic 2: Switch Architecture	1.1. Data and control plane. Distributed and centralized control. 1.2. Software-defined networking (SDN). Fundamental characteristics. 1.3. Switch architecture. Types of switches
Topic 3: Intradomain routing on the Internet: OSPF	3.1. Hierarchical routing on the Internet. Domains, ASs and ISPs 3.2. Protocols for intradomain routing. 3.3. OSPF 3.4. Types of OSPF Areas
Topic 4: Inter-AS Routing: BGP	4.1. BGP. 4.2. Attributes and path selection.
Topic 5. Route filtering	5.1. Route filtering. access lists and route-maps 5.2. BGP route filtering. 5.3. BGP Communities
Topic 6: Traffic engineering. MPLS-TE	6.1. Traffic engineering. 6.2. MPLS-TE
Topic 7: QoS architectures in ISPs	7.1. QoS Basic Concepts 7.2. Traffic classification and marking 7.3. Traffic Shaping and Policing 7.4. Buffer and bandwidth scheduling 7.5. DiffServ architecture
Topic 8: Network Virtualization	8.1. Network virtualization 8.2. L3 Provider Provisioned Virtual Private Networks (PPVPNs) 8.3. Ethernet VLANs. VLAN Trunking. 8.4. L2 tunnels 8.5. Ethernet VPNs
Topic 9: Data Center Networks	9.1. The network of a Data Center. 9.2. External and internal network virtualization. 9.3. 3-level hierarchical architecture. 9.4. Clos (Leaf & Spine) Architecture 9.5. EVPN in the Data Center 9.6. Alternatives to STP 9.7. Routing Issues in the Data Center