TLEN 5830 Network Design and Management Spring 1998
Dr. Ken Klingenstein
Information Technology Services
Campus Box 455
University of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado 80309
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Email - Ken.Klingenstein@Colorado.edu
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University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO 80302
Textbook: 1. Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, by Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie, published by Morgan Kaufman, ISBN 1-55860-368-9
2.Access to recent issues of relevant magazines such as Business Communications Review, Connexions, IEEE on Networks, and others
3. Numerous Web and FTP sites
Grading
50% Homework
25% Midterm
25% Final Paper/Exam
Homework will consist of assignments from the book, case studies, Internet-based activities, and LAN and WAN network monitoring.
Syllabus
Fundamentals of Networks and Management: (3 weeks)
Course Administration Goals and Limits of the Course Map of the Course
Flyovers Network Components Network Management Next Generation Internet The Networked World Today
End-to-end Connectivity
LAN, CAN, Internet, vBNS Network Management -
LAN, CAN, Enterprise
Links
Media - LAN and WAN Protocols Connectors Endpoints and hosts Communications Software
Network Layer User Layer Network Operating System Software Middleware Application Software Enterprise Layers- Databases, Applications, Computing
Perspectives - Technical, Financial, Political Layers of Network Management LAN Management technologies and tools
SNMP - RMON and RMON II Internet tools -subnets, routing, dns Processes and people NMS and fault management Performance and Monitoring/Statistics Security Enterprise-wide Services
Context - Applications, Players, Internet 1, current testbeds Technical Challenges Tools and Technologies Key Issues How It May Go From Here
Topics in Network Components (5 weeks)
5. Direct Network Links (Peterson&Davie - Chap 4)
Switching and Forwarding
Routing
Cell switching (ATM)
Switching Hardware
6. Packet Switching (Peterson&Davie - Chap 5)
Bridges and Extended LANs
IP
Routing
Subnets
IPv6
Multicast
DNS
7. Internetworking (Peterson&Davie Chap 6)
UDP
TCP
RPC
API
Performance
8. Network Operating Environments - Novell, NFS and DCE
Goals
File systems, Security, Printing, Directory Services, Time,
Access
Issues
Case Study - Netware, NFS, DCE
9. Presentation and Session
Presentation Layer
Presentation and Formating
Data compression
Topics in Network Management (4 weeks)
10. SNMP and RMON (Peterson&Davie - Appendix)
Model and Protocol
Commands, Agents, the Structure of Managed Information
V1 and V2
MIBs
RMON I and II
11. Network Management : Nuts and Bolts
Faults, Configuration and Desktop Management
Fault characteristics
Analytic testers and diagnostics
Desktop Issues
Tools
Training, version control, outreach
Client-server architecture
Network Management Systems
Goals
Types - MOMs and Distributed
Products and Futures
12. Network Performance Management
Monitoring
Statistics
Congestion
Performance Goals
Performance Tools
13. Security
Classes of Threats -
Types of Threats
Impacts and Frequencies
Cost/Benefit Analysis and Plans
Remedies
Security Tradeoffs
Firewalls
Secret Key vs. Public Key Crypto
Encryption Algorithms (DES,RSA)
Message Integrity Protocols (X.509)
Legal Issues
14. Middleware
Services
Licenses
Architecture
15. Network Accounting Management
The Economics of LANs
The Economics of CANs
The Economics of WANs
Accounting versus Charges
Funding and Charging models
Topics in Next-Generation Networking (3weeks)
16. Applications
Taxonomy
Model Classification
Marketplace Issues
ISP's, Desktops, Last miles, Agencies
COS vs QOS
17. Challenges
Laws of Humanity
Routing, Middleware, Applications, Security, Network Management
Laws of Physics
Delay-bandwidth, QOS, Desktops, Network Hardware, Multicast
18. Tools and Technologies
SONET
H.320 and H.323
RSVP
Other and Both
19. Administration of QOS
Autonomous Policy Areas
Settlements
Shekels