CU4072 High Speed Switching and Networking Syllabus:
CU4072 High Speed Switching and Networking Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
To explore the various space division switches
To enable the various network performance analysis
To get the clear idea about the various multimedia application
To get a clear idea about the traffic and Queuing systems.
Interpret the basics of security management and the various attacks & its countermeasures
UNIT I SWITCHING ARCHITECTURES
Shared medium switches – Shared memory switches – Space division switches – Cross bar based switching architecture – Input queued, Output queued and Combined input-output queued switches – Non blocking and blocking cross bar switches – Banyan networks – Batcher Banyan networks – Optical switches – Unbuffered and buffered switches – Buffering strategies – Optical packet switches and Optical burst switches – MEMS optical switches
UNIT II NETWORK PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
Objectives and requirements for Quality of Service (QoS) in high performance networks. Architecture of high performance networks (HPN), design issues, protocols for HPN, VHF backbone networks, virtual interface architectures, virtual interface for networking, High-speed switching and routing – internet and PSTN IP switching techniques, SRP protocols, SRP authentication, and key exchange, comparison of TCP/IP, FTP, TELNET, queuing systems, network modeling as a graph
UNIT III MULTIMEDIA NETWORKING APPLICATIONS
Streaming stored Audio and Video, Best effort service, protocols for real time interactive applications, Beyond best effort, scheduling and policing mechanism, integrated services, RSVP differentiated services.
UNIT IV PACKET QUEUES AND DELAY ANALYSIS
Littles theorem, Birth and Death process, queueing discipline- Control & stability -, Markovian FIFO queueing system, Non-markovian – PollaczekKhinchin formula and M/G/1, M/D/1, self-similar models and Batch-arrival model, Networks of Queues – Burkes theorem and Jackson Theorem.
UNIT V NETWORK SECURITY AND MANAGEMENT
Principles of cryptography – Elliptic-AES Authentication – integrity – key distribution and certification– Access control and: fire walls – DoS-attacks and counter measures – security in many layers. Infrastructure for network management – The internet standard management framework – SMI, MIB,SNMP, Security and administration – ASN.1.
COURSE OUTCOMES:
Upon completion the students will be able to
CO1: Understand the fundamental concepts of the switching architecture involved in various switching types
CO2: Interpret the basics of various protocols and QOS in the network performance
CO3: Understand the various types of multimedia networking application
CO4: Recognize the concepts of various analysis method involved in the processing
CO5: Understand fundamental issues involved in providing the security as well as the management.
TOTAL:45 PERIODS
REFERENCES
1. Achille Pattavina, “Switching Theory Architectures and performance in Broadband ATM networks”, John wiley & sons Ltd. New York, 2007.
2. Elhanany, Itamar, Hamdi and Mounir, “High Performance Packet Switching Architectures”, Springer 2007
3. Walrand .J. Varatya, “High Performance Communication Network”, Morgan Kaufmann – Harcourt Asia Pvt. Ltd., 2nd Edition, 2000.
4. Fred Halsall and Lingana Gouda Kulkarni, “Computer Networking and the Internet”, Fifth Edition, Pearson Education, 2012.
5. Nader F.Mir, “Computer and Communication Networks”, Pearson Education, 2009.