FACULTAT D'INFORMÀTICA
DE BARCELONA

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Internet and Multimedia Application Protocols (PIAM)

Credits	Dept.
7.5 (6.0 ECTS)	AC

Instructors

Person in charge:	Jordi Domingo Pascual `(jordi.domingoac.upc.edu)`
Others:	Jorge García Vidal `(jorgeac.upc.edu)` Josep Sole Pareta `(paretaac.upc.edu)`

General goals

This course aims to further students' knowledge on the basic concepts of the TCP/IP protocols and the structure of data communication networks (Internet) that they have gained in prior courses (XC and PXC). This course focuses on more advanced concepts, such as EGP routing, Spanning Tree protocol, wireless networks, mobility and multimedia support. The main topics are organized as follows:

- Routing (OSPF, BGP, Peering, STP).
- Wireless networks and mobility (Wireless networks, mobile IP).
- Multimedia (Coding, scheduling mechanisms, multimedia protocols).

Specific goals

Knowledges

Support for mobility in IP wireless networks.

Routing protocols for medium-sized and large networks. Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

Support for multimedia transmission over the Internet.

Multimedia applications and related protocols.

L2 routing (STP)

Abilities

(no available informacion)

Competences

(no available informacion)

Estimated time (hours):

T	P	L	Alt	Ext. L	Stu	A. time
Theory	Problems	Laboratory	Other activities	External Laboratory	Study	Additional time

1.	Wireless and mobile networks

Alt

Ext. L

Stu

A. time

Total

6,0

4,0

3,0

18,0

35,0

Wireless networks and device convergence (4h)
Mobile IP (3h)

Laboratory
Configuring 802.11 networks (2h).
Study case: Ad-hoc networks (2h)

2.	Routing extensions

Alt

Ext. L

Stu

A. time

Total

18,0

10,0

2,0

4,0

26,0

60,0

OSPF
BGP
Autonomous Systems, ISPs, Peering, multihoming, Internet
Encaminamiento nivel 2 (STP) y fiabilidad

Other activities:
Internet Architecture seminar
Laboratory
Configuration of OSPF
Configuration of BGP4
Configuration of peering policies

3.	Multimedia

Alt

Ext. L

Stu

A. time

Total

18,0

6,0

1,0

30,0

61,0

Coding
Switching Architecture y routers.
Planning (WFQ) an buffer management (Network)
VoIP
Int services, RSVP, diff services

Other activities:
Seminar:High-performance router design
Seminar: Traffic controlin Linux.
Seminar: QoS support.
Laboratory
Configuration of WFQ in routers

Total per kind	T	P	L	Alt	Ext. L	Stu	A. time	Total
Total per kind	42,0	0	20,0	12,0	8,0	74,0	0	156,0
Avaluation additional hours								3,0
Total work hours for student								159,0

Docent Methodolgy

Theory classes and lab classes.

The lab classes will be 2 hours long, in which students will learn how to configure an important aspect of TCP/IP protocols. The practical sessions put the concepts learnt in the theory classes into practice.

Some sessions are given over to seminars, in which aspects complementing the course are dealt with.

Evaluation Methodgy

Half-term test (Ctrol)

Final theory exam (Eft)

Lab exam (Elab). This exam will be held during the last lab session.

Final grade: MAX(0.15xCtrol + 0.2xElab + 0.65 Eft, 0.2xElab+0.8xEft)

Basic Bibliography

Christian Huitema Routing in the internet, Prentice Hall PTR, 2000.
John W. Stewart III BGP4 : inter-domain routing in the Internet, Addison-Wesley, 1999.
James D. Solomon Mobile IP, the Internet unplugged, PTR Prentice Hall, 1998.
James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross Computer networking : a top-down approach featuring the Internet, Addison-Wesley, 2005.
Radia Perlman Interconnections : bridges, routers, switches, and internetworking protocols, Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 2000.

Complementary Bibliography

Catherine Paquet, Diane Teare Building Scalable Cisco Networks, Cisco Press, 2001.
B. Hubert Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO, DocBook Edition, 2002.