Advanced Networking - Fall 2021

Lectures and Material

• Introduction to Advanced Networking
  Material: slides used in class
• Recap on Basic Networking Concepts: Network architecture, application protocols, TCP, datagram network service, router architecture, forwarding, routing, and in particular link-state routing.
  Material: slides used in class
• Network Emulation and Mininet: Network namespaces; basic network configurations using direct manipulation of interfaces, links, and routing tables; mininet. Automatic creation of a complex network topology.
  Material: lecture notes
• Random Walks and Sampling: Graph model; Monte-Carlo simulation; analytic solutions; design and optimization.
  Material: notes on random walks with IP forwarding
• Traffic Engineering: Flow problems; linear programming; whole-flow optimization; integer linear programming; randomized routing schemes.
• Network Modeling and Simulation: Packet-level modeling and simulation. Discrete-event simulation.
• Queuing Models and Theory: Basics of queueing models; basic results in queuing theory; Little's theorem and applications; Poisson processes; analysis of an M/M/1 queue and applications; statistical multiplexing.
• Network and Communication Security: Basics of communication security; modern cryptography and provable security; basics of symmetric cryptography; basics of public-key cryptography; concrete protocols and systems: IPSec.
• Advanced Architectures and Protocols: The modern Web: HTTP/2; the future Web: HTTP/3? Data-center networking: architectures and protocols; DCTCP; Timely.
• Programmable Networks: SDN: programming the control plane: the OpenFlow interface. Programmable data plane: P4.
• Advanced Topics in Networking: Student seminars.