Course Description:

The primary objective of this course is to give students an understanding of how to design and to plan computer networks and components of network management. It further examines how managers can strategically use network management to capture and deliver knowledge more efficiently and to create a competitive advantage.

Course Outline:

• Network design
• Traffic analysis
• Network operations and management
• Functional areas of network operations and management
• Configuration
• Performance
• Fault
• Security
• Accounting
• Network Planning

Lecture Notes

• Class Handout for marking scheme, text, pre-requisit etc...
• Network Design, queuing systems, and performance analysis.
• Drop Algorithm
• Network Routing
• Routing and Protocols
• Some papers on existing technologies: BGP, AS etc.
• Graphs, Trees, and Tours
• Trees and MSTs
• MST algorithms
• Kruskal's algorithm
• Prim's algorithm
• Dijkstra's Shortest Path Algorithm
• Interesting network topology graphs
• Design to Implementation
• Network Management
• Network Security
• SNMP
• Network Planning

Resources:

• Open source tools related to network design and management:
• Survey on network simulation tools
• List at topology.org
• List at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
• SLAC - Network Operations and Monitoring Tools
• CERT - Tools for System Administrators
• Netdisco
• Network Security Tools
• Bro - Network security monitor
• Suricata - IDS/IPS
• Snort - IDS/IPS
• Network protocol analyzer
• Netmate - Network flow generator
• Robert S. Cahn; Wide Area Network Design; Morgan Kaufmann, ISBN 1558604588 (optional) will be used for introducing network desing concepts.
• In addition, the course will be supplemented with material from conferences and journals, to be provided by the instructor or available on the Web, as required.

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