SYSC 5801 Advanced Network Routing Technologies
Winter 2013

Instructor: Chung-Horng Lung

Office: Mackenzie Building, Room 4434

Office hours (revised): 11:30-12:30 Tuesdays and Thursdays or by appointment

Email: chlung@sce.carleton.ca

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Course Outline

Presentation order

(There should be 20 in total. Some information is missing or incorrect. Please contact me the earliest to correct it. Open the file, Presentation order, to check the updated information. )

List of potential project topics and project description

Assignments:

· Assignment 3 (learning session on March 26^th)

o Paper 1

o Paper 2

o Paper 3

o Paper 4

o Paper 5

o Paper 6

· Assignment 2 (due on March 7^th in class)

· Assignment 1 (due on Feb. 7^th in class)

Reading assignments:

· March 1^st: The following two presentations are related to QoS routing. Please go over them as complimentary materials.

· Time dependent routing

· A DiffServ Scheduling policy

· Feb. 14^th: Information for Beyond MLU that I mentioned last week.

A. Sharma et al, “Beyond MLU: An Application-Centric Comparison of Traffic Engineering Schemes”, Proc. of INFOCOM 2011, pp. 181–192.

Presentation slides (including notes) are available.

· Feb. 6^th: Information for the paper on Green TE that I mentioned in class:

M. Zhang, C. Yi, B. Liu, and B. Zhang, “GreenTE: Power-Aware Traffic Engineering”, Proc. of the 18^th IEEE Int’l Conf. on Network Protocols, 2010, pp. 21–30.

· Jan 24^th:

Here is the information that compares objective functions for traffic engineering. Briefly go over the paper and review what other researchers addressed traffic engineering and conducted experiments and evaluation.

[Balon06] S. Balon, F. Skive and G. Leduc, “How Well Do Traffic Engineering Objective Functions Meet TE Requirements?”, Proc. of the 5th International IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference, 2006, http://www.springerlink.com/content/p32606q66p820613/

· Jan 10^th:
B. Fortz, J. Rexford, and M. Thorup, “Traffic Engineering with Traditional IP Routing Protocols”, IEEE Communications Maganize, Oct, 2002, pp.118-124.

We will have a discussion in class on the 11^th.

Course slides:

· Review materials on Network Layer, TCP/IP

o Network layer 1

o Network layer 2

o TCP/IP 1

o TCP/IP 2

o TCP/IP 3

· Content Delivery Networks – Akamai’s Presentation

· Large File Caching – Slides and a paper

· MPLS Introduction

· MPLS Information Distribution for TE

· Path Calculation and Setup

· Forwarding traffic down the tunnels

· MPLS QoS – part 1, part 2

· Protection and Restoration

· Virtual Private Networks

o Layer 3 VPNs

o Layer 2 VPNs

· Named Data Networking (NDN)

· Network Design with MPLS TE