- Docente: Carla Raffaelli
- Credits: 3
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Telecommunications Engineering (cod. 8846)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Telecommunications Engineering (cod. 8846)
Learning outcomes
End to end protocols and performance. Main network models, quality of service mechanisms, control and management techniques and protocols for traffic and service engineering in evolving and emerging network scenarios, with applications to practical case studies.
Course contents
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Routing and forwarding in the Internet
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Router architectures and queuing techniques
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Discrete-time input and output queuing
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Basic mechanisms for QoS support: marking, policing, shaping.
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Token bucket: average, peak rate and burst length control
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Priority queuing
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Weighted fair queuing
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Processor sharing and bit round fair queuing
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Active queue management: RED technique
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Differentiated services model
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Integrated services model and RSVP
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Case studies and design examples
Readings/Bibliography
J.F. Kurose, K. W. Ross, Computer Networking, A Top Down Approach, Fifth Ed. Pearson.
J. Evans, C. Filsfils, ' Deploying IP and MPLS QoS for Multi-service networks', Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Elsevier.
William Stallings, 'High Speed Networks and the Internets: Performance and Quality of Service', Prentice Hall.
Teaching methods
Theoretical lectures and numerical exercises
Seminar given by invited speakers
Assessment methods
written test
Links to further information
http://www.unibo.it/docenti/carla.raffaelli
Office hours
See the website of Carla Raffaelli