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ECS 256B HIGH SPEED NETWORKS (4) III

Lecture: 3 hours

Laboratory: 3 hours

Prerequisite: Course ECS 152A

Grading: Letter; 3-4 homework sets (35%), one exam (35%), and a project/term paper (30%)

Catalog Description:
Various issues in emerging high speed networks. Topics include network modeling, analysis, and optimization; routing; design of high speed switching fabrics; congestion control; traffic characterization; and broadband ISDN and ATM networks.

Goals:
This course provides an introduction to the design and analysis of high-speed networks, including ATM networks.

Topics:

  1. Characteristics of high speed networks

  2. Network modeling, analysis, and optimization: Capacity, flow, and topology assignment

  3. Routing: Application in traditional WANs

  4. High speed switching: Tradeoffs in circuit vs. fast-packet switching

  5. Congestion control: Feedback-based and open-loop control

  6. Characterization of non-data traffic: Packet voice and packet video

  7. Broadband ISDN: ATM networks

Textbook:
Anthony S. Acampora, An Introduction to Broadband Networks: LANs, MANs, ATM, B-ISDN, and Optical Networks for Integrated Multimedia Telecommunications,Plenum Press, NY, 1994.

References:
R. Handel and M. N. Huber, Integrated Broadband Networks, Addison-Wesley, 1991.

A. Girard, Routing and Dimensioning in Circuit-Switched Networks, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1990.

M. Schwartz, Telecommunication Networks, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1987.

D. Bertsekas and R. Gallagher, Data Networks, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1987.

Selected papers from the recent literature.

Laboratory/Project/Term Paper:

Students work individually or in small groups on a course project. The projects will complement and extend the lecture material. The project may include: (1) implementation of a network protocol, or (2) proposal/design of a new protocol or extension of an existing one followed by its evaluation via computer simulation (and mathematical analysis, whenever possible). Students therefore gain hands-on experience in network protocol design, development, and analysis.

Engineering Design Statement:
The course project includes design, development, and implementation issues in network protocols. Lectures discuss various networks, how their protocols are implemented, and the tradeoffs (delay, efficiency, etc.) between them. The homework and exam problems are based on design issues discussed in lecture.

ABET Category Content:

Engineering Science: 2 units
Engineering Design: 1 unit

Instructors: D. Ghosal, B. Mukherjee

Prepared By: B. Mukherjee (Feb. 1997)

THIS COURSE DOES NOT DUPLICATE ANY EXISTING COURSE

Last revised: 2/97

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