No

Topic

Level of

No of
 hours

knowledge

skills

A

B

C

D

E

1.

Introduction to the course, description of assessment items.

X

1

2.

Goals of computer communication networks analysis.

X

1

3.

Basic performance measures.

X

1

4.

Performance analysis of selected MAC protocols.

X

1

5.

Fairness measures for resource sharing protocols.

X

1

6.

In-layer and cross-layer design of communication protocols.

X

1

7.

Design of MAC mechanisms using PHY layer information.

X

1

8.

Characteristics of user application requirements.

X

1

9.

Performance of fast electronic and optical packet switching.

X

1

10.

Overview of fair queuing algorithms.

X

1

11.

Application of fair queuing to QoS differentiation.

X

1

12.

Buffer and queue management for TCP traffic handling.

X

1

13.

Introduction to effective bandwidth and grade of service.

X

1

14.

Determination of effective bandwidth and grade of service for given traffic conditions.

X

1

15.

Computational basics of nonlinear optimization, examples of optimization problems.

X

1

16.

Multi-criterion optimization basics.

X

1

17.

Shortest path routing in variable network topologies.

X

1

18.

Dijkstra's and Bellman-Ford algorithms: from methods to routing protocols.

X

1

19.

Routing as a tool for load balancing.

X

1

20.

Multi-criterion routing for QoS provisioning networks.

X

1

21.

Capacity of wired networks as determined from the max-flow min-cut theorem.

X

1

22.

Capacity of single- and multi-hop wireless networks.

X

1

23.

Application of optimization methods to routing and flow control algorithms.

X

1

24.

Reliable data transport over wireless links.

X

1

25.

Transport protocols for heterogeneous networks.

X

1

26.

Multicast transmission in multi-hop wireless networks..

X

1

27.

Multicast transport protocols: types of ack semantics.

X

1

28.

Multicast transport protocols: hierarchy of ordered delivery.

X

1

29.

Multicast-based building of a network topology map.

X

1

30.

Network- and application-layer group multicast; the TRANSIS system.

X

1

30

No

Topic

Level of

No of
 hours

knowledge

skills

A

B

C

D

E

1.

Algorithmic and state machine-based protocol specification.

X

1

2.

Stochastic protocol performance measures, examples of ARQ analysis.

X

1

3.

Determination of delays, throughput and transmission overhead for selected MAC protocols.

X

1

4.

Factors contributing to bandwidth utilization and QoS guarantees in the MAC sublayer.

X

1

5.

Traffic engineering via static routing table configuration.

X

1

6.

Additive and restrictive outing metrics.

X

1

7.

Traffic descriptors; types of QoS guarantees.

X

1

8.

Multicommodity flows and network coding.

X

1

9.

Input and output queuing in switch architectures; the FIFO blocking effect.

X

1

10.

Queuing and buffer management in IP and ATM technologies.

X

1

Determination of feasible network load.

X

1

12.

Optimiztion examples: CAC, priority queuing, multi-criterion routing algorithms.

X

1

13.

Configuration of congestion control mechanisms in a TCP entity.

X

1

14.

Construction of optimum multicast trees, network- and application-layer routing, the MBone network.

X

1

15.

Performance evaluation of RBP.

X

1

15