75476 - Network Engineering M

Academic Year 2015/2016

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • 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

  1. Routing and forwarding in the Internet

  2. Router architectures and queuing techniques

  3. Discrete-time input and output queuing

  4. Basic mechanisms  for QoS support: marking, policing, shaping.

  5. Token bucket: average, peak rate and burst length control

  6. Priority queuing

  7. Weighted fair queuing

  8. Processor sharing and bit round fair queuing

  9. Active queue management: RED technique

  10. Differentiated services model

  11. Integrated services model and RSVP

  12. 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