- Docente: Franco Callegati
- Credits: 6
- SSD: ING-INF/03
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Cesena
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Computer Science and Engineering (cod. 8614)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering for Energy (cod. 8770)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering for Energy (cod. 8770)
Course contents
TELETRAFFIC THEORY
- Introduction to teletraffic theory and queuing systems.
- Markov chains and birth and death processes
- Markovian queues and the Erlang formulas.
- Application to analysis, dimensioning and planning of circuit and packet switched networks.
INTERNET ROUTING
- Architecture and performance of switching systems.
- Fast routing and switching: MPLS and GMPLS.
- Load balancing and traffic engineering
END-TO-END CONTROL AND THE TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS
- Overview of the TCP protocol
- TCP flow control: the AIMD concept.
- Mathematical models to estimate the throughput of a TCP connection.
VIRTUALIZATION AND SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKS
- Separation of the control plane and the data plane
- The OpenFlow protocol
- The ETSI NFV-MANO
- a typical VIM: OpenStack
Readings/Bibliography
For teletraffic theory a reference document is freely published by the ITU at the link
For TCP protocol analysis
Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, 6th Edition
For network softwarization some reference from standard documents are
Network Function Virtualization
Teaching methods
Lectures
Case studies referring to real life examples of application of teletraffic theory
Simulations of the TCP protocol with the ns2 simulator
Assessment methods
Written exam aimed to solve study cases of the topics addressed during the course.
The exam is in 4 parts:
- at least two practical exercises of application of teletraffic and TCP protocol analysis
- 1 or 2 questions requesting to present and discuss in written form topics studied in the course.
Teaching tools
Lecture notes provided by the lecturer.
For teletraffic theory and TCP analysis the teacher will present to the students some relevant scientific papers as examples of in depth works on the topics.
Regarding SDN and network virtualization additional tutorials and information can be found on the Education page of the IEEE SDN
Office hours
See the website of Franco Callegati