Internet Control Plane (Lecture, SoSe 2018)

In this lecture, you will learn and understand the concepts and tools that allow you to surf the Internet.

• Review: How the Internet works
• Overview of Internet routing
  • Routing vs switching
  • Link state vs. distance vector

• Introduction to wireless
  • The wireless channel, 802.11

• Wireless routing in the beginning
  • DSR, AODV

• Intra-domain routing
  • RIP, OSPF

• Inter-domain routing, BGP
  • End-to-end effect, topology inference

• Traffic engineering and MPLS
• Wireless Internet routing
  • Wireless routing metrics, gateway selection and discovery
  • OLSR

• New Internet routing architectures
• Selected topics in wireless routing
• Overlay/underlay interactions

If you are interested in attending please make sure you are subscribed to this course in ISIS to receive infomration and announcements.

A module registration is also required for Bachelor and Master students. Further information will be given in the lecture and via ISIS.

There will be neither a tutorial nor exercise sheets.

• James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross. Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach. Addison-Wesley, fourth edition, 2007. (englisch), online version (preliminary version of 1st edition, password will be given during the course)

Lots of content borrowed from/inspired by:

• Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach Featuring the Internet, 3rd edition. By Jim Kurose and Keith Ross, Addison-Wesley, July 2004 (see below).
• Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Routing, MAC and Transport Issues, Infocom 2006 Tutorial by Nitin Vaidya (www.crhc.illinois.edu/wireless/tutorials.html [6])
• Computer Networks, EPFL-IC, Fall 2008, Jean-Pierre Hubaux and Mohammad Hossein Manshaei (compnet.epfl.ch [7])
• Mobile Networks, EPFL-IC, Spring 2009, Jean-Pierre Hubaux (mobnet.epfl.ch [8])
• Optimized Link State Routing, Andreas Tønnesen (www.olsr.org/?q=links [9])
• Cigdem Sengul, [10] 802.11s tutorial
• Wikipedia (but be cautious …)