Description of the course

This is a second course on computer networks, for advanced under-graduated or graduated students, allowing them to gain a deeper comprehension of this subject. It assumes that the student was already exposed to an introduction to networking with practice on network programming interfaces. The course also takes an hands-on approach with laboratory and project activity.

Instructors

José Legatheaux Martins - Student office hours to be announced

Phone: +351 21 294 8500 Ext. 10725

Email: jose.legatheaux at this faculty dot unl.pt

Departamento de Informática da FCT/UNL, Building II, Office 2/7

Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Monte da Caparica, Portugal

If you need to contact me in person please feel free to request an appointment by e-mail.

Paulo Afonso Lopes - Student office hours to be announced

Phone: +351 21 294 8500 Ext. 10755

Email: poral at this faculty dot unl.pt

If you need to contact me in person please feel free to request an appointment by e-mail.

Departamento de Informática da FCT/UNL, Building II, Office 243

Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Monte da Caparica, Portugal

Syllabus overview

(1st half part - till mid/end April):

Networks principles, models and tools

Flooding, Spanning tress, VLANs

Shortest-path routing and link state protocols

IP addressing, BGP

Congestion control at the edge and at the network level

Quality of service

Tunnels utilization and a short introduction to MPLS

(2nd half part – from the middle/end of April up to the end).

Emergent topics in data centre environments

Application requirements and traffic patterns

Physical structure of the network, machine virtualization and migration

Software Defined Networking (SDN) & network management

Traffic engineering for intra- and inter-data centres networks

TCP for data centre environments

Bibliography

(a) José Legatheaux Martins, "Fundamentos de Redes de Computadores - Ilustrados com base na Internet e nos Protocolos TCP/IP," FCT/UNL, Março de 2018

(b) Larry L. Peterson and Bruce S. Davie, "Computer Networks – A Systems Approach" – 5 th Edition, Morgan & Kaufman, 2011 - Available from the editor

(c) Ivan Marsic, “Computer Networks – Performance and Quality of Service,“ Rutgers University, 2013, can be found here http://eceweb1.rutgers.edu/~marsic/books/CN/book-CN_marsic.pdf

(d) Hamed Haddadi and Olivier Bonaventure (editors), “Recent Advances in Networking”, Volume 1, ACM SIGCOMM eBook, August 2013 can be found here sigcomm.org/education/ebook/SIGCOMMeBook2013v1.pdf‎.