CS2060 HIGH SPEED NETWORKS Syllabus

CS2060            HIGH SPEED NETWORKS                 L T P C 
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UNIT I    HIGH SPEED NETWORKS                                                 9
Frame  Relay  Networks  –  Asynchronous  transfer  mode  –  ATM  Protocol  Architecture,
ATM  logical  Connection  –  ATM  Cell  –  ATM  Service  Categories  –  AAL.  High  Speed
LAN’s:  Fast  Ethernet  – Gigabit Ethernet–  Fibre Channel  – Wireless  LAN’s, WiFi  and
WiMax Networks applications, requirements – Architecture of 802.11.

UNIT II    CONGESTION AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT                                   8
Queuing Analysis – Queuing Models – Single Server Queues – Effects of Congestion –
Congestion  Control  –  Traffic Management  –  Congestion  Control  in  Packet  Switching
Networks – Frame Relay Congestion Control.


UNIT III  TCP AND ATM CONGESTION CONTROL                                             12 
TCP Flow control – TCP Congestion Control – Retransmission – Timer Management –
Exponential RTO backoff – KARN’s Algorithm – Window management – Performance of
TCP over ATM. Traffic and Congestion  control  in ATM  – Requirements – Attributes –
Traffic Management Frame work, Traffic Control – ABR  traffic Management – ABR rate
control, RM cell formats – ABR Capacity allocations – GFR traffic management.

UNIT IV   INTEGRATED AND DIFFERENTIATED SERVICES                      8
Integrated Services Architecture – Approach, Components, Services- Queuing Discipline    
– FQ – PS – BRFQ – GPS – WFQ – Random Early Detection – Differentiated Services.
   
UNIT V  PROTOCOLS FOR QOS SUPPORT                                       8
       RSVP – Goals & Characteristics, Data Flow, RSVP operations – Protocol Mechanisms
–   Multiprotocol Label Switching – Operations, Label Stacking – Protocol details – RTP
– Protocol Architecture – Data Transfer Protocol– RTCP.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

TEXT BOOKS:
1.  William  Stallings,  “High  speed  networks  and  internet”,  Second  Edition,  Pearson
Education, 2002.

REFERENCES:
1.  Warland,  Pravin  Varaiya,  “High  performance  communication  networks”,  Second
Edition , Jean Harcourt Asia Pvt. Ltd., , 2001.
2.  Irvan  Pepelnjk,  Jim  Guichard,  Jeff  Apcar,  “MPLS  and  VPN  architecture”,  Cisco
Press, Volume 1 and 2, 2003.
3.  Abhijit S. Pandya, Ercan Sea, “ATM Technology for Broad Band Telecommunication
Networks”, CRC Press, New York, 2004.