Course website http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~xyuan/cis6930

Meeting time Tuesday, Thursday, 3:35-4:50pm

Meeting location 0215 HTL

Instructor Dr. Xin Yuan, Lov 168, 644-9133, xyuan@cs.fsu.edu

Office hours Tuesday, Thursday 1:00-2:00pm or by appointment.

Textbook

There is no textbook for this class. The lecture materials come from recent research papers, standard specifications, Internet Drafts, and RFCs.

This is an advanced networking course that requires active student participation. In particular, this is not an introductory course in computer networks (the introductory network course, CEN5515, is a pre-requisite of this course). In each meeting, we will cover a selection of papers or other documents (RFCs, protocol specifications, etc) from the research literature. Class itself will consist of lecture time followed by discussion/critique about the material.

Topics we will cover include, but are not limited to, the following:

• System/Storage area network (SAN). Issues in switching, routing, and application API design for achieving high bandwidth/low latency communication, cut-through/store-and-forward/wormhole switching, high speed interconnect design, deadlock free routing and load balanced deadlock free routing, and case study.
• Internet inter-domain routing. BGP, BGP routing instability/slow convergence problems and solutions, BGP security problems and solutions, new inter-domain routing protocol proposals.
• Internet security. Detection and prevention of distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks, IP traceback, techniques to deal with IP spoofing, intrusion detection, anti-spam.
• Internet QoS and traffic engineering. Issues in packet scheduling, routing, middle-ware support for QoS provision, MPLS, traffic engineering techniques, multi-path routing.
• Internet traffic measurement and analysis. Traffic distribution and workload models, topology characterization, self similarity, statistical multiplexing.

After this course, the students are expected to understand major issues/problems/solutions in the current Internet.

Prereq.

CEN5515 Data and Computer Communications. Basically, you need to understand how TCP/IP/Ethernet works.

Grading

• Term project (60%). A semester-long research project performed in consultation with the instructor. I will meet with each team throughout the semester. At the end of the semester, each team will give a presentation and deliver a write-up of their work.
• Paper review (20%). Each student will be assigned a certain number of papers to review. All reviews will be placed online for other students to read, criticize, and grade. The review grade will be assigned by peer students.
• Class participation and presentation (20%). This includes in-class presentation and in-class discussion.