COMPUTER NETWORKING

Part- 1

Introduction

• Computer Networking Overview
• What This Class is Not About

Part- 2

Architecture & Principles

• A Brief History of the Internet
• Architectural Design Principles
• Packet Switching
• File Transfer
• End to End Argument Violations

Part- 3

Switching

• Switching and Bridging
• Bootstrapping: Networking Two Hosts
• ARP: Address Resolution Protocol
• Interconnecting LANs with Hubs
• Switches: Traffic Isolation
• Spanning Tree
• Switches vs. Routers
• Buffer Sizing for a TCP Sender

Part- 4

Routing

• Internet Routing
• Intra-AS Topology
• Distance-Vector Routing
• Link State Routing
• Interdomain Routing
• IGP vs. iBGP
• BGP Route Selection
• Multiple Exit Discriminator (MEI)
• Interdomain Routing Business Models

Part- 5

Naming, Addressing & Forwarding

• IP Addressing
• Pre-1994: "Classful" Addressing
• IP Address Allocation
• Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR)
• Multihoming Frustrates Aggregation
• Address Lookup Using Tries
• Memory Efficiency and Fast Lookup
• Alternatives to LPM with Tries
• NAT and IPv6
• Network Address Translation (NAT)

Part- 5.1

Router Design Basics

• Router Design
• Basic Router Architecture
• Decision: Crossbar Switching
• Switching Algorithm: Maximal Matching
• Head of Line Blocking
• Scheduling and Fairness
• Max-Min Fairness

Part- 5.2

Domain Name System (DNS)

• Record Types
• Examples (using "dig")
• Lookup IP Address

Part- 6

Congestion Control & Streaming

• Congestion Control
• AIMD (TCP Congestion Control)
• Data Centers & TCP "Incast"
• Barrier Synchronization & Idle Time
• Multimedia & Streaming
• Digitizing Audio & Video
• Streaming Video
• Skype

Part- 7

Rate Limiting and Traffic Shaping

• Traffic Classification & Shaping
• Source Classification
• Leaky Bucket Traffic Shaping
• (r, t) Traffic Shaping
• Shaping Bursty Traffic Patterns
• Power Boost
• Effects on Latency
• Buffer Bloat
• Packet Monitoring

Part- 8

Content Distribution

• The Web and Caching
• HTTP Requests
• Persistent Connections
• Content Distribution Networks (CDNs)
• Server Selection
• Content Routing
• Bit Torrent
• Solution to Freeriding: "Choking"
• Distributed Hash Tables
• Consistent Hashing

Part- 9

Software Defined Networking

• Network Management Overview
• Software Defined Networking (SDN)
• Control and Data Planes
• Different SDN Controllers
• NOX: Overview
• Ryu, Floodlight, Nox and Pox
• Customizing Control

Part- 10

Traffic Engineering

• Traffic Engineering Overview
• Interdomain Traffic Engineering
• Measuring, Modeling and Controlling Traffic
• BGP in Interdomain Traffic Engineering
• Multipath Routing
• Data Center Networking
• Valiant Load Balance
• Jellyfish Data Center Topology

Part- 11

Network Security

• Internet is Insecure
• Resource Exhaustion
• Routing Security
• Origin and Path Authentication
• DNS Security
• DNS Cache Poisoning