CSPP 54015
Advanced Network DesignPrerequisites: 54001
Catalog Description: Advanced Network Design is a new interdisciplinary class which is designed to give the CSPP graduate the skills they need to architect, build and manage the next generation networks capable of supporting multimedia technologies such as Voice over IP, desktop video conferencing, presence management and other specialized real-time applications.
Long Description: Advanced Network Design is a new interdisciplinary class which is designed to give the CSPP graduate the skills they need to architect, build and manage the next generation networks capable of supporting multimedia technologies such as Voice over IP, desktop video conferencing, presence management and other specialized real-time applications. While the TCP/IP protocol has been refined for the last 25 years to do a good job of reliably transmitting email and data files, real-time applications, such as voice over IP, put higher quality of service demands on networks than email and web sites. The operation of such multimedia applications on clean laboratory networks is fairly well understood; implementing them on large multi-use production networks is more difficult.
To achieve this goal, this course will pull material from different Computer Science disciplines:. Information on packet classification, quality of service delivery and reservation protocols typical of an advanced course on router design will be presented. Multimedia theory and practice, especially with regard to voice over IP, will be covered including real time protocols, compression and multicasting technology. Information on improving end-node network performance and security typical of an advanced systems class, will also be discussed. Finally, we will discuss network reliability, redundancy and high availability architectures.
There will be several written homeworks in the beginning of the class, followed by a major project which may be programming oriented or a network design, test and measure project. There will also be a midterm and final exam.
Instructors:Quarter offered: SPR
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