EE 7700 Broadband Networking with ATM

General: Units 3 hrs. Offered in Fall Semester.

Catalog Description

Prereq: Strong background in linear systems, random processes and networking concepts.

Topics:

    Fundamentals - an overview of ATM, user and control planes, adaptation layer, UNI signaling, PNNI; Markovian models and methods of solutions, Large deviation technique.

    Traffic characterization for broadband services, packetized voice and video, MMPP, Fluid flow model, effective bandwidth: large buffers, bufferless multiplexing, CDE approximation and application.

    Traffic schedulers - work conservative and non-work conservative types, comparison.

    Admission and access control in broadband networks, GCRA, traffic shaping - leaky bucket technique, token bucket rate control, pricing.

    Feedback based flow control, rate and credit based techniques, congestion control, selective cell discarding, EFCI.

    Network design and management, single link multirate call-level models, resource sharing, virtual partitioning, optimization.

    An introduction to Internetworking over ATM.

References

  1. Research papers from IEEE ToN and related conferences.
  2. A. Schwartz and A. Weiss, Large deviations for performance analysis: queue, communications, and computing, Chapman and Hall, 1995.
  3. M. Schwartz, Broadband integrated networks, Prentice Hall, 1996.
Goals:
    To acquaint students with the models and techniques for control design and management in Broadband Networking based around ATM.