NETMODE

• QUEUING SYSTEMS & APPLICATIONS (6th SEMESTER)
  

  The course aims at introducing students to methodologies in modeling and performance evaluation for Internet based communication networks and computer systems. The emphasis is on the analysis of such systems as simple queuing models, complemented by simulation techniques. The course material includes:

• Overview of probability theory with emphasis on memory-less probability distributions (Poisson and exponential distributions).
• Definitions of Markov stochastic processes, ergodicity.
• Definitions and basic models of queuing systems. Arrival processes, departure processes, queue state, steady-state behavior, steady-state probabilities, utilization, average queue size and delay, Little’s formula, throughput, blocking probability.
• Birth – death processes and applications in simple Markov queuing systems (M/M/1, M/M/1/K, M/M/N, M/M/N/N, state dependent queues). Open and closed networks of queues, Burke’s theorem, Jackson’s theorem, Gordon/Newell theorem.
• Applications in performance evaluation of data networks, telephone networks and computer systems.

• NETWORK MANAGEMENT - INTELLIGENT NETWORKS (9th SEMESTER)
  

  The course aims at introducing students to Network Management, with emphasis on Internet based architectures and protocols. The course material consists of Lecture Notes, Laboratory Exercises & On-line Lectures (synchronized  video/audio and transparencies), yearly updated and accessed via the Network Management & Optimal Design Laboratory (NETMODE) web site - www.netmode.ece.ntua.gr (moderate ADSL access is more than enough). Topics covered include:

• The Network Management Framework, FCAPS (Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance & Security) definitions.
• Review of the TCP/IP protocols suite and current networking advances in optical Backbone Networks, broadband Access and Local Area Networks. Illustration via the NTUA Campus LAN, the Greek Academic& Research Network GRNET and the Pan-European optical backbone GEANT.
• Commercial service providers, peering and service provisioning.
• Management of TCP/IP networks – the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
• Management & operations at lower layers, Ethernet switching, Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs).
• Security management: Digital certificates, Public Key Infrastructures (PKI), Authentication & Authorization Infrastructures (AAI), intrusion and anomaly detection.
• Provisioning and measurements for Virtual & Optical Private Networks. Dynamic, on-demand provisioning of networking, storage and computing services, Grid computing and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA).
• Intelligent networks: From digital telephony Common Channel Signaling System #7 (SS7) to Voice over IP and Operations, Administration & Maintenance (OA&M) of high-end IP integrated networks.