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This course will be given in Fall 2012, see you then!

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...
• Drop Algorithm
• Network Routing
• 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
• Design to Implementation
• Network Management
• Traffic analysis
• Configuration and accounting management
• Performance management
• Fault management
• Security management
• Network Security
• SNMP
• Information on SNMP and MIB
• SNMP and Internet management
• ASN.1
• Toward Best Maintenance Practices in CNM
• Network Planning

Resources:

• Open source network simulators, traffic analyzers, generators and tools related to network operations, such as:
• Survey on network simulation tools
• List at topology.org
• List at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
• Bro - Network security monitor
• Suricata - IDS/IPS
• Snort - IDS/IPS
• 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.

Assignments and the Project

Final Exam

Final exam date and location are announced by the Registrar!

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