CS2060 High Speed Networks- Syllabus

CS2060 HIGH SPEED NETWORKS

 Syllabus

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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, WiFi and WiMax Networks applications, requirements – Architecture of 802.11.

UNIT II CONGESTION AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT 8

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 12

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 8

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

UNIT V PROTOCOLS FOR QOS SUPPORT 8

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

TEXT BOOKS:

1. William Stallings, “High speed networks and internet”, Second Edition, Pearson

Education, 2002.

REFERENCES:

1. Warland, Pravin Varaiya, “High performance communication networks”, Second

Edition , Jean Harcourt Asia Pvt. Ltd., , 2001.

2. Irvan Pepelnjk, Jim Guichard, Jeff Apcar, “MPLS and VPN architecture”,

Cisco Press, Volume 1 and 2, 2003.

3. Abhijit S. Pandya, Ercan Sea, “ATM Technology for Broad Band

Telecommunication Networks”, CRC Press, New York, 2004.