Program design and analysis. Processes and operating system kernels. Real time constraints. System and power consumption optimization. The course is aimed at giving hands on experience in designing, building and operating large-scale internetworks.
Special attention is paid to network structure, and internal and external routing.
The networks studied will include both wired and wireless components. The course is focused on modeling and analysis of capacity and performance oriented problems that can be formulated as markovian or semi-markovian queuing networks. To understand the operation of, or to build high performance router architectures requires a thorough understanding of the latest advances within computer architecture. The focus is on processors, memory systems, interconnection networks and fast Internet router architectures. The course focuses on network management and traffic engineering for large-scale networks.