ITC8060
Network Protocol Design (ITC8061, 6 ECTS)
This module focuses on fundamental problems of network protocols and various design decisions and it's implications. This will also include security related protocols and give a better understanding why it is sometimes so hard to secure the Internet. As an exercise we will develop and implement our own protocol.
This module requires some programming skills (or a LOT of motivation to spend a LOT of time on learning algorithms and programming languages on top of the network-protocol related challenges). See also here for more detailed information.
The lectures and seminar discussions will be Tuesdays, 14.15-17.00 in room is ICT-401. This includes time for coding related questions, time to work on the implementation and assignments.
Lectures:
27 Feb Introduction & Layers
06 Mar Routing Part
13 Mar Design Workshop I
20 Mar TCP & reliability / Design Workshop II
27 Mar Design Workshop III
Protocol Design & Development:
03 Apr Presentation about Design Specs (14.15-16.00)
10 Apr NO LECTURE - time to finalizing design specs
17 Apr AD-review / final protocol specs
Implementation:
24 Apr NO LECTURE (Locked Shields-week) / Implementation week 1
01 May Public Holday / Implementation week 2
Testing:
08 May Testing with other groups (Note: your code MUST be ready on 7 May!)
15 May Demonstration / "Exam" (demonstrate your code and submit for marking)
Reading recommendations:
- Kurose, Ross, “Computer networking: a top-down approach". Pearson.
- John Day, “Patterns in network architecture: a return to fundamentals”. Prentice Hall.
- Olivier Bonaventure. “Computer Networking: Principles, Protocols, and Practice” http://inl.info.ucl.ac.be/cnp3
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