CSE 6392 Multiservice Switching Architecture

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CSE 6392 Multiservice Switching Architecture

• Hao Che
• Woolf Hall 208
• 200pm 320pm, Tuesday Thursday

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Multiservice Switching Architecture (CSE6392)

• Instructor Hao Che (hche_at_cse.uta.edu)
• GTA Zhijun Wang (zjwang68_at_yahoo.com)
• Required Text No
• Course Objectives
• To understand general concepts of multiservice
  networking and gain a system view of multiservice
  switching architectures
• To gain in-depth understanding of one or two
  current research topics in communication networks

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Brief Bio

• UT/Arlington M.S. (1994) in Physics
• UT/Austin Ph.D. (1998) in ECE
• Penn State University Assistant Professor
  (1998-2000) in EE
• Santera Systems Inc System Architect (2000-2002)
  
• UT/Arlington Assistant Professor (Now) in CSE

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Course Admin

• Web Site http//crystal.uta.edu/hche/cse6392Spri
  ng2005/index.htm
• Schedule, Syllabus, Class Materials/Information
• Email - will be used for time-critical info and
  web account setup
• Send GTA an email note from your preferred email
  account with your full name and CSE 6392 in the
  subject line today
• Grading Policy (subject to changes)
• Quizzes 50
• Presentation 50

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Course Admin

• Office Hours
• General Rule If its not during scheduled office
  hours,or if you dont have an appointment.. Im
  not in.
• Hao Ches Office Hours (NH 325)
• Tuesday and Thursday 1230pm 150pm
• or, by Appointment (i.e. a time scheduled in
  advance)

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How to Take this Course?

• Dont assume the instructor has answers to all
  the questions
• The instructor will cover only the general
  aspects of networking
• You need to be self-motivated and find answers on
  specific topics by yourself and share them with
  others (meaning you have to do a lot of homework
  although no homework is assigned)
• There is no textbook for this course. You need to
  search for references by yourself, as part of the
  homework

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Networking Research Areas

• NSF Classification

Distributed, Ubiquitous,
Pervasive Computing
Network Trustworthiness
Middleware/Grid
Computing
Core Networking
Wireless Networking
Optical Networking
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Course Coverage

• Multiservice Networking Architecture
• Overlay models ELAN, Classical IP over ATM,
  MPOA
• MPLS
• General concepts
• ATM LSR
• Ships-in-the-night
• DiffServ-MPLS architecture
• Resource provisioning
• High availability
• Multiservice over MPLS

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Course Coverage (contd)

• Switching System Architecture
• Hardware
• Traditional approaches
• Distributed architecture
• Network interface cards framer, SAR (loopback),
  network processor, TCAM coprocessor, network
  management module, local CPU
• Switching fabric
• Control processor
• Software
• Control plane
• Management subplane
• Control functions ATM, IP routing, MPLS,
  DiffServ, COPS
• System subplane
• Data plane (see next slide)

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Course Coverage (contd)

• Data plane
• Pre-queuing packet processing procedure
• Queue management and scheduling
• Function partitioning
• Control and Data plane function separation ARP,
  PPP, ICMP, etc.
• Function partitioning between ingress and egress
  NICs
• Control card redundancy
• Packet classification TCAM solution
• Flow classification VoIP, dNAT
• Advanced Topics
• Internet design principles
• Current trends in Internet design