Chapters refer to W. Stallings: High-Speed Networks and Internets: Performance and Quality of Service, Second Ed., Prentice-Hall 2002, ISBN 0-13-032221-0.
| Subject | Reading |
| Introduction | |
What is the question? |
Chapters 1-5 self study |
| Network performance modeling and estimation | |
Queuing analysis |
Chapter 7 self-study, Chapter 8 |
Markov chains |
Handout |
| Congestion and traffic management | |
Basics of congestion and traffic management |
Chapters 10 and 11 |
TCP congestion control |
Chapter 12 |
Traffic and congestion control in ATM networks |
Chapter 13 |
| Unicast and multicast routing | |
Review of graph theory |
Chapter 14 self study |
Selected issues in unicast routing |
Chapters 15 and 16 |
Multicast routing |
Chapter 16 and handouts |
Internet topology |
Handouts |
| Quality of Service (QoS) | |
Integrated and Differentiated Services |
Chapter 17 |
Protocol support for QoS (RSVP, MPLS) |
Chapter 18 |
| Architectures of networking devices | |
Switch/router architectures |
Handout |
Basic interconnection networks |
Handout |
| Optical network architectures | |
Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) |
Handout |
Optical networks beyond point-to-point |
Handout |