High Speed Networks

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Course Contents

Unit-1: Frame Relay Network: Introduction, Packet-Switching Networks, Frame Relay Networks.

Unit-2: Asynchronous transfer mode: ATM Protocol Architecture and Logical Connection, ATM Cells, ATM Service Categories, ATM Adaption Layer.

Unit-3: High Speed LANs: Fast Ethernet LAN, Gigabit Ethernet, ATM LAN, Network Attached Storage (NAS), Wireless LAN and Wi-Fi, LAN Interoperability.

Unit-4: Network Performance Evaluation Models: Introduction ,Overview of Probability and Stochastic Processes, Queuing Analysis, Self-Similarity Network Traffic.

Unit-5: Congestion Management Part-1: Congestion – An Overview, Effects of Congestion, Congestion Control, Traffic Management.

Unit-6: Congestion Management Part-2: Frame Relay Congestion Control, Flow Control Techniques, Error Control Techniques.

Unit-7: TCP Traffic and Congestion Control: TCP Flow control, TCP Congestion Control, Performance of TCP over ATM.

Unit-8: ATM Traffic and Congestion Control: ATM Traffic and Congestion Control, Traffic Management Framework, ABR Traffic Management, GFR Traffic Management.

Unit-9 : Integrated Services: Integrated Service (IntServ) Model, Flow and Service Description, Queuing Discipline, Integrated Services in IP-ATM Networks.

Unit-10: Differentiated Services: Differentiated Service Architecture, Scalability of DiffServ, DiffServ Functional Elements, Per-Hop Behavior (PHB), Models of DiffServ.

Unit-11: Protocols for Quality of Service (QoS) Support – Part I: Multicasting, Multicast Transport Protocol (MTP), Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP), Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP).

Unit-12: Protocols for Quality of Service (QoS) Support – Part II: Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), Subnet Bandwidth Management (SBM), QoS Architectures, QoS Support for Multicast.

Unit-13: Internet Routing Basics and Design –1: Basics of Graph Theory, Internet Routing Principles, Analysis of Shortest Route.

Unit-14: Internet Routing Basics and Design –2: Intra-Domain Routing Protocol, Border Gateway Protocol, Inter-Domain Routing Protocol (IDRP).

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