Fall 2000

ECE 697F: Special Topics-Internet Routing

Announcements:

Final project paper is due Midnight Dec 20. The paper should be sent via email to lgao@ecs.umass.edu. For implemenation-intensive project, you need to send your codes as well.

Schedule number:

906629

Class meeting times:

Tuesday and Thursday 9:30-10:45

Location:

KEB 209D

Credit: 3

Office hours:

Tuesday 4:00-5:00 or by appointment, KEB 207.

Prerequisites

Familiarity with concepts in computer networks.

Course Requirements

Presentation (30%): Each student will be expected to present and lead the class discussion on one or two papers from the reading list.
Class Participation (30%): Students are expected to read papers in advance the class presentation. Active class participation is required and students are graded according to their class participation.
Project (40%): Each student is required to carry a semester-long project that advances the state of the art in the field. Two or three students may team up for the project. A project proposal will be due in the middle of the semester and a final paper will be handed in the end of semester. Final project will be presented at the end of the semester.

Course Description

The growth and evolution of the Internet has complicated the routing in Internet. Since the decommissioning of NSFNET, Internet structure has moved to from a core network to a more distributed architecture operated by commercial Internet service providers (ISPs) such as Sprint, MCI, BBN and AT&T. Routing between these ISPs is guided by contractual agreements between them. In this seminar course, we will investigate key issues in the Internet routing such as stabilility, convergence delay, reliability. Internet routing protocols covered include Border Gateway Protocols (BGP) and Open Shortest Path Protocol (OSPF). We will study these protocols and investigate their performance by both theoretical and measurement studies. In addition, we will study proposed extensions to the protocols that enhance the stability and relibility of the Internet.

A collection of papers describing the state of the art in the Internet routing will be posted at class homepage:

http:://www-unix.ecs.umass.edu/~lgao/routing.html

Students will be required to present papers, participate in class discussions and complete a project on a relevant topic of interest. This course assumes familiarity with graduate courses in computer networks.