CPSC 641: Performance Issues in High Speed Networks

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CPSC 641 Performance Issues in High Speed
Networks

• Professor Carey Williamson Department of
  Computer Science University of Calgary
• Graduate-level course on high speed networks and
  network performance issues
• URL http//www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/carey/CPSC641

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Motivation
Opening a highway does not by itself
drastically change the speed of the bicycles
- Ancient Proverb
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High Speed NetworkingA Layered View

• Video, Web, FTP
• TCP/IP, UDP
• Unix
• VAX, Alpha
• Adapters, NICs
• FDDI, GigE, ATM
• Fiber, SONET, WiFi

Application Designers
Protocol Architects
O.S. Architects
CPU, Memory,Disk
LAN Interfaces
Media Access
Optical Devices
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High Speed NetworkingA Layered View

• Faster media does not necessarily imply faster
  network applications
• Interdependence between layers
• Interactions between protocols
• Need to consider trends of all layers

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Course Overview

• Main focus Internet technologies, protocols, and
  applications
• Secondary focus Performance issues
• Textbook None (current literature only)

Goal Understanding the current state of the
art for high speed networking research
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Contact Information

• Professor Carey Williamson
• Office ICT 740
• Phone [phone] (my office)
• Fax [phone] (CS dept)
• Email carey_at_cpsc.ucalgary.ca
• URL http//www.cpsc.ucalgary/carey
• URL for course info, notes, assignments
  http//www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/carey/CPSC641