Principles of Communication Networks - 2012

• The Internet structure and the DIMES project. Slides on the AS hierarchy. An example of BGP volnurability.
• Internet measurements
• Papers on distributed measurement optimization: minimizing coverage time, minimizing measurement load, spreadsheet
• Switching
• HOL blocking
• Matching
• Maximal matching
• Scheduling: background (with nice examples: 1, 2) and RFQ (paper)
• Switching Fabrics
• TCP analysis (the paper)
• Tocken Buckets
• E2E Delay variation

Project

DIMES background, basic operation, data tables, DIMES Planner, Suggested projects topics

Past Exams

• 2003 exam (q3 and q4 are relevant for this year material)
• 2004 exam (q2 is not part of this year material)
• 2005 exam(q1 is not part of this year material)
• 2006 exam (q1 is not part of this year material)
• 2007 exam (most of q4 is not part of this year material)
• 2008 exam(q1 is not part of this year material)
• 2009 exam (q1 is not part of this year material)
• 2010 exam (1 is only partly relevant)