CMSC5709 Advanced Topics in Internet Technology

Student/Faculty's Expectations on Teaching and Learning

Instructor: John C.S. Lui

This is a gradute level course and we will go over various advanced topics in networking. The topics will vary each year depending on the trend of the technology. in particular, it is about the theories, algorithms as well as system issues for the Internet. In this course, we cover fundamental principles and theories about current and future Internet architectures.

Teaching Assistants

• TBD Office hour:

• Various papers and references which will be provided as we introduce topics.

Course Grades:

• Project: 40%;
• Examination: 60% (note: you need to get at least 30% in the final exam to pass the course)

Policy: Late project will NOT be considered.

• Class overview
• Networking review
• Internet design, signaling of telephone networks
• ATM, 3G netowrks and cellular architecture
• Internet signalling protocol, IGMP, RSVP
• SIP
• Brief Introduction to Software Defined Netowrks (SDNs)
• Principles of randomization
• Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs)
• Theory of resource sharing
• Router architecture and packet scheduling
• Packets routing and traffic engineering
• TCP and Congestion Control
• Optimization-based framework for congestion control
• Content Centric Networks (CCNs)
• Wireless Netowrks
• Opportunistic resource allocation
• Historic Perspective of Software Defined Network (SDN)
• SDN: Data and Control Separation
• SDN: Understanding the Control Plane
• SDN: Network Virtualization
• SDN: Understanding the Data Plane
• SDN: Programming and Control
• SDN: Case studies
• SDN: Network Verification

Lecture Notes: (Password Protected)

Administrative matter

Review 1

Review 2

Review 3

Review 4

Internet Design Principles & Singaling

The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols

Rethinking the Design of the Internet: The End-to-End Arguments vs. the Brave New World

Control Plane, State management, IP Multicast, IGMP, RSVP, SIP,...etc.

Software Defined Network & OpenFlow

Network Virtualizaton, VLAN, NFV

Principles of Randomization (1)

Indirection: Multicast, Mobility, Routing, Infrastructure (DHT), Packet Scheduling

Scheduling: Router Design

Routing and Traffic Engineering

Mathematical Modeling of TCP

Theory of Network Optimizaiton

Brief Introduction of Wireless Networks

Deeper Examination into SDN: Background

Deeper Examination into SDN: Control & Data Plane Separation

Deeper Examination into SDN: Network Control Plane

Deeper Examination into SDN: Network Virtualization

Deeper Examination into SDN: Programming the Data Plane

Deeper Examination into SDN: Programming the SDN

Deeper Examination into SDN: Examples and Case Study

Deeper Examination into SDN: Verification