NE9222 HIGH SPEED NETWORKS Syllabus

NE9222 HIGH SPEED NETWORKS

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AIM
To highlight the features of different technologies involved in High Speed Networking and their
performance.

OBJECTIVES
• Students will get an introduction about ATM and Frame relay.
• Students will be provided with an up-to-date survey of developments in High Speed Networks.
• Enable the students to know techniques involved to support real-time traffic and congestion control.
• Students will be provided with different levels of quality of service (Q.S) to different applications

UNIT I                      HIGH SPEED NETWORKS                                                                       9

Frame Relay Networks – Asynchronous transfer mode – ATM Protocol Architecture, ATM logical Connection, ATM Cell – ATM Service Categories – AAL. High Speed LAN’s: Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel – Wireless LAN’s.

UNIT II          CONGESTION AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT                                9

Queuing Analysis- Queuing Models – Single Server Queues – Effects of Congestion – Congestion Control – Traffic Management – Congestion Control in Packet Switching Networks – Frame Relay Congestion Control.

UNIT III        TCP AND ATM CONGESTION CONTROL                                         9

TCP Flow control – TCP Congestion Control – Retransmission – Timer Management – Exponential RTO backoff – KARN’s Algorithm – Window management – Performance of TCP over ATM. Traffic and Congestion control in ATM – Requirements – Attributes – Traffic  Management Frame work, Traffic Control – ABR traffic Management – ABR rate control, RM cell formats, ABR Capacity allocations – GFR traffic management.

UNIT IV        INTEGRATED AND DIFFERENTIATED SERVICES                       9

Integrated Services Architecture – Approach, Components, Services- Queuing Discipline, FQ, PS, BRFQ, GPS, WFQ – Random Early Detection, Differentiated Services.

UNIT V          PROTOCOLS FOR QOS SUPPORT                                            9

RSVP – Goals & Characteristics, Data Flow, RSVP operations, Protocol Mechanisms – Multiprotocol Label Switching – Operations, Label Stacking, Protocol details – RTP – Protocol Architecture, Data Transfer Protocol, RTCP.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

REFERENCES

1. William Stallings, “High Speed Networks and Internet”, Second Edition, Pearson Education, 2002.

2. Warland, Pravin Varaiya, “High Performance Communication Networks”, Second Edition, Jean Harcourt Asia Pvt. Ltd., 2001.

3. Irvan Pepelnjk, Jim Guichard, Jeff Apcar, “MPLS and VPN Architecture”, Cisco Press, Volume 1 and 2, 2003.