Spring 2000
ENSC 894-3 and CMPT 885-3
SPECIAL TOPICS: HIGH-SPEED NETWORKS

(3-0-0) This course will be numbered ENSC 835 when approved as a regular graduate course.
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Course description: This course covers the techniques needed to understand and analyze modern data communications networks. It covers the basic architecture of packet networks and their network elements (switches, routers, bridges), and the protocols used to enable transmission of packets through the network. It addresses techniques for collection, characterization, and modeling of traffic in packet networks. It covers aspects of traffic management, such as various call admission control and congestion control algorithms in high-speed packet networks and the influence of traffic on network performance.

This is a project oriented graduate course. Students will be introduced to various algorithms and software tools for simulating packet networks: Opnet (Mil 3), NS network simulator (Lawrence Berkeley Labs), Ptolemy (UC Berkeley), and AutoClass (NASA). Tools for statistical analysis of traffic data will be also available (Splus).

Pre-requisites: Successful completion of ENSC 427-3 or permission of the instructor.

TOPICS:
HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS:
  • Assignment #1
  • Assignment #2
    EXAMS:
    No midterm and final exams.

    FINAL PROJECT REPORTS:
    Due Friday, April 7, 2000 (midnight).
    Demos scheduled during the weeks of April 3 and 10, 2000.
    Sign-up sheet for the final demos
    The final project grading policy

    GRADING:
    Class presentations 15%, demo presentation 15%, final project 70%.
    Click here to see your grade and the total scores distribution chart.
    TEXTBOOKS:
    Recommended texts:

    Check the status of the books on reserve for ENSC 894 by typing "ENSC 894" (with the space) in the search window.

    JOURNALS:
  • IEEE Network, The magazine of global information exchange
  • IEEE Communications Magazine
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • ACM Computer Communication Review
    SCHEDULE:
    Lectures:
    W 16:00 - 18:50 in AQ 5037 (new room):
    Ljiljana Trajkovic ljilja@cs.sfu.ca

    Labs:
    ASB 9884 and ASB 1000B (open labs).

    PROFESSOR:

    TEACHING ASSISTANTS:

    COMPUTING HELP:

    PROJECTS:
    ENSC 894/CMPT 885 Spring '00 projects.
    Instructions for in class presentations of your final projects
    Instructions for writing ENSC 894/CMPT 885 final project reports

  • ENSC machine names
  • Setting the environments:
         Opnet      NS      Ptolemy      AutoClass      Splus

    SOFTWARE TOOLS:

  • NS simulator and documentation
      Network Designer (NetDes) with ns Java applet
  • Opnet main page
  • Autoclass
  • Ptolemy
  • Splus

    TRAFFIC TRACES:
    Locally available short traces:

  • Star Wars data:
      Frames: trace and its description.
      Trace for ns StarWars trace for ns (14 MBytes) and its description.
  • News recorded video data: news.IPB   news.I   news.P   news.B and their description.
  • Short extracts from Bellcore Ethernet traces:
      tpAug89_2000.TL   pOct89_2000.TL   OctExt_2000.TL and their description.
    FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)
    FAQ: Email messages with hints and answers to some frequently asked questions.
    WEB SITES OF INTEREST:
    Acronyms:
  • http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov:80/fs-1037/
  • http://www.csrstds.com/acro-a-d.html
    General references:
  • What is page:
         http://whatis.com/osifig.htm
         http://whatis.com/osi.htm
    Organizations:
  • International Telecommunication Union
  • The Internet Engineering Task Force
  • The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
  • American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
  • European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)
  • Internet Telephony Consortium (ITC)
  • Gigabit Ethernet Alliance
  • Digital Audio Visual Council (DAVIC)
  • Vendors ISDN Association (VIA)
    Forums:
  • ATM Forum
  • ADSL Forum
  • Frame Relay Forum (FRF)
  • Intelligent Network Forum (IN Forum)
  • Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF)
  • European ISDN User Forum
  • North American ISDN Users Forum (NIUF)
  • Wireless LAN Interoperability Forum (WLIF)
    Documents:
  • Internet Requests for Comments (RFC)
    Other resources:
  • Telecom information resources on the Internet
  • An introduction to network management
  • World of SNMP and Network Management
  • Optical Networking Page
  • The SONET Home Page
  • Signaling System 7 (SS7)
  • High Speed Networks and ATM Info Page
  • Cell Relay Retreat
  • Protocols for Adaptive Mobile and Wireless Networking
  • CDMA Development Group
  • PSC Networking Research Group
  • British Telecom Global Reports
  • National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR)
         End-end Internet performance assessments
  • Cisco networking page
    Daily news of interest:
  • Wired News: DoS: Defense Is the Best Offense
    ADSL FAQ
  • Sites with traffic traces:
  • StarWars traces from Telcordia
  • StarWars trace for ns
  • MPEG video traces from University of Wuerzburg
  • Internet Traffic Archive
  • MPEG-1 and Motion JPEG traces from Ohio State University
  • Traces from the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research
  • Fred Xue's traffic page with links to traffic sites
    Fun things:
  • UC Berkeley EECS20: Structure and Interpretation of Signals and Systems
    WEEK IN REVIEW:
  • 1. January 12
  • 2. January 19
  • 3. January 26
  • 4. February 2
  • 5. February 9
  • 6. February 16
  • 7. February 23
  • 8. March 1
  • 9. March 8
  • 10. March 15
  • 11. March 22
  • 12. March 29
  • 13. April 5
    INFO:

  • ENSC 894 FOLDERS:
    Two binders (identical copies) labeled
    ENSC 894/CMPT 885
    HIGH-SPEED NETWORKS
    are placed in the ASB 9884 and the ASB 1000B Graduate Students Computer Labs.
    CONTENT

  • ENSC 894 URL:
    http://www.ensc.sfu.ca/people/faculty/ljilja/ENSC894/

  • ENSC 894 MAILING LIST:
    ensc894-g1@sfu.ca

  • ENSC 894 NEWSGROUP:
    sfu.class.ensc.ensc894

  • ENSC 894 CAUCUS:
    Ensc894
    Information
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    Created by
    Ljiljana Trajkovic
    ljilja@cs.sfu.ca
    Last modified: Sunday March 5 16:51:26 PST 2000.