NE4002 High Speed Switching Architectures Syllabus:
NE4002 High Speed Switching Architectures Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
To learn the basics of switching
To explore the various space division switches
To evaluate the performance of various switching architectures
To study the architecture of IP routers
To study about MPLS switches
UNIT I SWITCHING BASICS
Circuit switching, Message switching and Packet switching – Datagrams and Virtual circuits – Cell switching – Label switching – L2 switching Vs L3 switching – VLANs – Switching and Bridging – Loop resolution, Spanning tree algorithms – Cut through and Store and forward switches – Head of line blocking – Back pressure – Switch design goals
UNIT II SWITCHING ARCHITECTURES
Shared medium switches – Shared memory switches – Space division switches – Crossbar based switching architecture – Input queued, Output queued and Combined input-output queued switches – Non blocking and blocking crossbar 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 III PACKET QUEUES AND DELAY ANALYSIS
Little’s theorem – Birth and death processes – Queuing disciplines – Markovian FIFO queuing – Non Markovian – Pollaczek Khintchine formula –M/M/1, M/G/1 and M/D/1 models – Self similar models and Batch arrivals models – Network of queues – Burkes theorem and Jackson theorem.
UNIT IV P ROUTER ARCHITECTURE
Bus based router architecture with single processor and multiple processors – Architecture with multiple parallel forwarding engines – Switch based router architecture with multiple processors – Switch based router architecture with multiple processors – Switch based architecture with fully distributed processors – Critical and non critical data path processing – fast and slow path.
UNIT V MPLS ROUTERS
MPLS – Layer 2.5 – Labels – Switching and Distribution –Label Switched Path – Label Forwarding Instance Base – Label Stacking – IP Lookup vs Label lookup – Label Distribution Protocol – MPLS based VPNs– Label switching – Label switched path – Comparison with ATM technology.
COURSE OUTCOMES:
CO1: Apply switching concepts to build networks.
CO2: Deploy the network with appropriate type of switches.
CO3: Analyze the queuing disciplines and delay analysis
CO4: Select and configure the appropriate type of IP router
CO5: Design and implement MPLS networks
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
REFERENCES
1. Damitri P Bertsekas and Gallager, Data Networks‖, 2nd edition, PHI, 1992
2. Elhanany, Itamar, Hamdi and Mounir, High Performance Packet Switching Architectures”, Springer 2007
3. H.Jonathan Chao and Bin Liu, High Performance Switches and Routers”, John Wiley and Sons, 2007
4. Howard C Berkowitz, Designing Routing and Switching Architectures for Enterprise Networks”, Sams, 1999
5. Luc De Ghein, MPLS Fundamentals‖, Cisco Press 2014