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S-38.4030 Postgraduate Course on Networking Technology
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Course Topic Autumn 2007: From Carrier grade Ethernet to Routed Ethernet - Discovering the world after IP
Latest news:
- 28.9.2007: First session held. Initial assignments reserved. Final topics expected by the end of week 40 (5.10.2007). Send your topics to both Mika and Raimo.
- 4.9.2007: These pages published. Sign up via wwwtopi is opened.
- 3.9.2007: Topic list formulating
- 3.9.2007: Things are converging...
- 16.08.2007: Topic hunting started.
Introduction
Motivation for the seminar topic:
The more the Internet is used for mission critical networking, the
farther away the real networks move away from the original ideas of and
End-to-End network. Dave Clark has formulated this as "From End-to-End
to Trust-to-Trust". At the same time, the Internet routing structure is
under a heavy stress; issues with BGP convergence, growth of routing
table size and exhaustion of IPv4 addresses are some of the symptoms.
Even people who are intimately involved in developing the IP based
Internet are questioning whether IP principles of addressability of all
nodes and hosts and network transparency are the best for the future
Internet.
We at Netlab are now pursuing one approach to develop a solution. It is
based on removing the IP protocol from the network to a maximum extent
and enhancing Ethernet with routing and address resolution
services. The idea is to natively support network hinding, network
virtualization, multihoming and mobility on the Ethernet level
and multiple identity schemas over the infra.
The purpose of this seminar is to explore the relevant state-of-the art
related to any such approach and create new ideas on how to go forward.
This fall, the course has two tracks.
- On the first one, students aim to report and analyze the details behind Carrier grade Ethernet.
CGE is a carrier-class network service defined by five attributes that
distinguish Carrier grade Ethernet from ordinary LAN based Ethernet:
Standardized Services, Scalability, Reliability, Quality of Service and
Service Management.
- The second track aims to dig into the work of the Internet Research Task Force, IRTF and the groups of particular interest for networking studies. Students will familiarize themselves with network management, routing, multicast, Internet architecture and Host Identity Protocol
Study information
Students are required to participate in and attend to both tracks. However, seminar paper is required only on one topic in either track.
This instance of the course will produce 5-10 ECTS. The course can
be included in post-graduate studies on Networking Technology (major or
minor in S38). The credits can also be included in
graduate studies on Networking Technology.
Course personnel contact information
Registration
Please register to the course via wwwtopi. Note that
the number of participants will be limited to 15 students.
If you do not have (post graduate) student status at TKK, contact the
course assistant to sign up to the course. In order to get credits from
this course you need to obtain student (or post-graduate student)
status during fall term 2007. Contact your supervising professor for
more details.
Course goals
The suggested topics are found here. The
goal of this course is to introduce the students to the state of the
art, existing research and latest developments in the area of carrier
grade ethernet. The learning goal of an individual student over the
course topic is to have a detailed enough general knowledge. On the
particular subjects of study the individual student is to be able to
fluently present and evaluate existing solutions and ongoing research. Furthermore, the student must be able to apply
his/her knowledge and suggest improvements to the existing research. To
excel in this course and aiming for higher grades the student has to be
able to present initial results of the suggested improvements.
The course is meant to act as a stepping stone for the students
to submit (and hopefully also publish) their contribution in a
international workshop or conference. Provided a sufficient number of
high quality tutorial and reseach papers are created, we will also
publish them in a Lab Report.
Course arrangements
The course main events will be arranged as an interactive seminar. Seminar language will be English. The suggested topics are found here. You can also propose your own topic relevant to the course topics. In this case, please contact the course assistant with one page proposal containing an executive summary of your suggested topic and list of 3-5 relevant references.
Check also the course requirements for further details.
As always, your comments and suggestions towards improving the seminar are also
welcome.
Schedule
The first meeting will be held on September 28th, 2007 at
15.00 - 17.30 in Netlab coffee room D302. In this meeting, for
motivation purposes, prof Kantola will present current Netlab research
ideas on how to enhance the 802.x technology into a routed end to end
network technology and the topics will be assigned to students.
Seminar day for presentations will be on December ?th, in Otaniemi.
- First meeting held on 28.9.2007 at 15.00 in laboratory coffee room D302.
- Final version draft deadline ?.11.2007 at 16.00.
- Feedback and suggestions for improvement returned to students by ?.12.2007.
- Final paper deadline ?.12.2007 (including the lecture slides/notes).
- Seminar held on ?.12.2007 and on ??.??.2007. The seminar takes place in Otaniemi. Schedule to be announced.
- More feedback given during December/January to those papers
intended for conference/workshop submission (tentative deadline
somewhere in January 2007).
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