Digicom%20II%20Digital%20Communications%20Part%20II

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Digicom II Digital Communications Part II

• Based on book by Keshav
• An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking
• Jon Crowcroft
• http//www.cl.cam.ac.uk/jac22

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Any Questions?

• otherwise we can avoid all these 11am meetings?

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DC-II (DC-I) - Contents

• The Telephone Net (well its been around 100
  years, so there must be some lessons in it)
• The Internet (about 25 years old, and looking
  decidedly shakey)
• Asyncronous Transfer Mode (a failed, but bold
  attempt to mix Telepone and Internet)
• Classic Simplistic Model of Modular Functionality
  for Communications
• Some Systems Design Paradigms, often orthogonal
  to Layers
• Naming and Addressing, i.e. who is where?
• A List of common protocols - see if you can spot
  design patterns?
• Some Mapping onto implementation for CS
• Routing - How many ways can we get from A to B?

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DCII Contents continued

• Shared Media Networks (Ether/Radio etc) - some
  special problems
• Switched Networks - What does a switch do and
  how?
• Integrated Service Packet Networks for IP
• APIs to Quality of Service
• Scheduling and Queue Management Algorithms for
  packet forwarding
• What about routing with QoS
• The Big Picture for manageing traffic
• Economics, Policy and a little MPLS