Spring 2001
ENSC 833-3: NETWORK PROTOCOLS AND PERFORMANCE
CMPT 885-3: SPECIAL TOPICS: HIGH-PERFORMANCE NETWORKS

FOLDER CONTENT:

GENERAL INFO

ENSC 833/CMPT 885 Course info (WWW pages)

LECTURE SLIDES:

The history for AT&T, Bell Labs, and the telephone networks.

Data communications fundamentals: baseband signals, modulation techniques, CRC, OSI reference model.

Overview of technology evolution.

Software tools: NS internals, introduction to Ptolemy, introduction to AutoClass, introduction to Opnet.

Packet switched networks: FDDI, Frame Relay, and SMDS.

TCP Protocol details.

Circuit switched networks: SONET, HDSL/ADSL, AIN/SS7, Video, and PCS.

ATM networks

On designing the Sunshine ATM packet switch.

Traffic collection and characterization. Connection admission control. Congestion control algorithms.

Simulation of packet loss with UDP transfers. Using wavelet analysis for characterization of packet loss (Dr. Fei Xue)