This is an advanced course focused on the principles of operation, architectures, protocol design and performance management techniques for integrated broadband computer networks designed to support multimedia transport and services. The course covers a wide range of emerging technologies used in high speed local, metropolitan and wide area networks, including Gigabit ETHERNETS, FDDI, Frame Relay and ATM. Several switching architectures are presented and their performances analyzed and compared. Traffic-related management strategies including call-setup procedures, congestion and flow control, admission control, traffic shaping, policing, resource allocation and other QoS-related issues are carefully described and analyzed. The course will also introduce several broadband multimedia applications including IP multicasting and present a host of multicast routing procedures. Ultra-broadband Optical Networking technologies, including SONET and DWDM along with Optical Switching architectures will be discussed. In addition, several topics in Wireless Networks are treated with some detail including WLANs, Bluetooth, Mobile IP, WAP and wireless access to the Internet.
