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Lecture 1

This document provides details about a course on advanced photonic networks. It outlines that the course consists of lectures, workshops, and labs. Syllabus materials and notes are available online and on Blackboard. There are different assessment requirements for Level 7 and Level 6 students. The document lists deadlines and required coursework submissions on Blackboard. It also provides reading materials and notes that course materials are available in HTML and PDF formats on Blackboard and the instructor's website, including lecture recordings and sample problems.

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Lecture 1

This document provides details about a course on advanced photonic networks. It outlines that the course consists of lectures, workshops, and labs. Syllabus materials and notes are available online and on Blackboard. There are different assessment requirements for Level 7 and Level 6 students. The document lists deadlines and required coursework submissions on Blackboard. It also provides reading materials and notes that course materials are available in HTML and PDF formats on Blackboard and the instructor's website, including lecture recordings and sample problems.

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Course Details

• This part consists of lectures and workshops. Syllabus, slides/notes


are online at the following URL and on Blackboard:
● http://www-users.aston.ac.uk/~blowkj/internetworks/index.htm
• lectures on advanced photonic networks (Level 7 only)
● Dr H Hamza
• Network Simulator (Level 7 and 6) - 3 lab sessions of 3 hours each
• Assessment (Level 7) • Assessment (Level 6)
● Lecture Material 75% ● Lecture Material 70%
● Course Work 10% ● Course Work 15%
● Lab assessment 15% ● Lab assessment 15%
Deadlines
See Blackboard assignments page

NS laboratory

RFC coursework

All work to be submitted through Blackboard


Main
Course Books
Tanenbaum A.S, Computer Networks 3rd ed, Prentice
Hall (1996) ISBN 0-13-349945-6
Supplementary
D E. Comer, R E. Droms, Computer Networks and
Internets 2nd ed, Prentice Hall (1998), ISBN 0-13-
083617-6
J.E.Flood, Telecommunications Switching, Traffic and
Networks, Prentice Hall (1995), ISBN 0-13-033309-3
Optical Networks, A Practical Perspective by
Ramaswami and Sivarajan, ISBN 1-55860-445-6
D. E. Comer, Internetworking with TCP/IP, Printice
Hall, ISBN 0-13-018380-6
Course Material
• Available in html or pdf format
– On Blackboard
– On my website
• Recordings of lectures also available
• Two sets of sample problems
• Past Exam papers
• Additional lecture material not in the course
Logical vs Physical
• e.g. These lectures
● 13 lectures, 3 workshops
● 18 physical 1 hour slots
● may not be a simple mapping
• addressing
● logical network addresses
● e.g. IP addresses
● physical network addresses
● e.g. wavelength
Data Networks
• Transmission
● Sending data from A to B over a single link
● usually connection-oriented
● can be data independent
• Networking
● Involves switching
● often involves specific types of data

Packet: Header Payload Trailer


Internet Growth
Number of
connected
computers

Time
Internet Growth
Number of
connected Logarithmic plot
computers

Time
Recent Data (2012)
YouTube

● 4 billion views a day, up 30% over the last eight months


● 800M unique users visit You Tube each month
● In 2011, ~ 140 views for every person on earth (over 1 Trillion
views)
● More video is uploaded to YouTube in one month than the 3 major
US networks created in 60 years
– Source - http://www.youtube.com/t/press_statistics

Internet video traffic is growing at 48% CAGR (i.e., per year) (Cisco)

● In 2015, the gigabyte equivalent of all movies ever made will


cross global IP networks every 5 minutes. (Cisco)
– Source - Cisco Visual Networking Index: Forecast and
Methodology, 2010-2015
Applications

• Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP)


• File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
• Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
• Telnet
• Voice over IP
• Multimedia
Single Link

• Bandwidth

A • Error rate/ Signal to noise ratio


• Data Rate
• Failure probability
Network
Switched Shared Access
Topology
Fully Interconnected Network
Network size of N nodes
So we have: L = N(N-1)/2 point to point links
Scales very badly with N
Incremental network cost is L(N+1)-L(N)
= (N+1)(N)/2- N(N-1)/2
=N
So the cost of adding a new node increases as the network
grows, there is no economy of scale.
Network Problems
• Routing information • Quality of Service
• Unique addresses • Congestion
• Rogue packets • Flow Control
• Node/ switch/ router failures • Errors
• Security • Network measurements
• Internetworking • Applications
• Abstraction
Internet Resources

Tannenbaum home page


(http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast)
Material on Comer Book
(http://netbook.cs.purdue.edu)
RFC’s
(http://www.rfc-editor.org/)
example - RFC 1288, finger
Next Lecture
• Protocol stacks
● OSI
● TCP/IP

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