Queen's University

School of Computing 

CISC 837: IP Networks - Traffic and QoS Management

Hossam Hassanein


Objectives:

The course describes fundamental techniques, principles and technologies associated with implementing IP Quality of Service (QoS) and traffic management. The Integrated and Differentiated Services architectures and accompanying protocols and techniques for  QoS  implementation are described. End-to-end resource management across heterogeneous domains and platforms is discussed.
 

Background:

 

Course Slides:



Presentation Schedule:

Date
Topic
Name


November 2 Module 1: Scheduling
Fadi Alturjuman
Presentation
Report
November 2
Module 2: QoS Routing
Xianyang Zhang Presentation Report
November 2 Module 3: IP Call Admission Control
Shan Li
Presentation Report
November 2
Module 4: Optical Burst Switching
Ryan Grant
Presentation Report
November 9
Module 5: IP over WDM/DWDM
Olive Zhao
Presentation Report
November 9
Module 6: Virtual Private Networks
Muhammed Aboelfotoh
Presentation Report
November 9
Module 7: TCP under Large BDPs
Hsiao-Ming Tsou
Presentation Report
November 9
Module 8: TCP under Long RTTs
Ed Koush
Presentation Report
November 16
Module 9: Recovery and Protection in IP Networks
Ashraf Alfagih
Presentation Report
November 16
Module 10: Traffic Theory
Michael Liu Presentation Report
November 16
Module 11: Congestion Control
Ryan Korzeniowski
Presentation Report
November 16
Module 12: Pricing in IP Networks
Ian Stewart
Presentation Report


Topics reference material (large 28MB+)


Course Deliverables:

 
N2-2 Tutorial by Ahmed Hasswa (old -- to be updated)

Some useful links:
    Download NS-2 from: http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns
    Marc Greis's tutorial: http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/tutorial/
    NS-2 Manual: http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/doc/index.html
 

Marking Scheme:

 
Lecture Times:
    Fridays  2:30-5:30
    Lecture room - Goodwin 521 


    Mondays  3:30-5:00   (October only)
    Lecture room - WLH 716


Reference Books: