ITC8060

Network Protocol Design (ITC8061, 6 ECTS)

This module focuses on fundamental problems of network protocols and various design decisions and it's implications. This will also include security related protocols and give a better understanding why it is sometimes so hard to secure the Internet. As an exercise we will develop and implement our own protocol.

This module requires some programming skills (or a LOT of motivation to spend a LOT of time on learning algorithms and programming languages on top of the network-protocol related challenges). See also here for more detailed information.

The lectures and seminar discussions will Wednesday, 12.00 - 13.30. We will use distance learning using MS-Teams due to the pandemic situation.

Lectures:
    27 Jan  Introduction & Layers, naming and addressing  
    03 Feb  Routing Theory I (Bellman-Ford)
    10 Feb   Routing Theory II (Dijkstra + BGP) 
    17 Feb  TCP & Reliability  
    03 Mar  Design Workshop 
    10 Mar  
    17 Mar  
    24 Mar  
    31 Mar  

Protocol Design & Development:  
    07 Apr  Presentation about Design Specs   
    14 Apr  Design Workshop. 

Implementation: 
    21 Apr   Implementation week 
    28 Apr   Implementation week 

Testing:
    05 May  Testing with other groups   
    12 May  Demonstration / "Exam" MANDATORY ATTENDANCE (demonstrate your code, oral exam on lecture content)            

Please join the gitlab group and the telegram chat

Reading recommendations:

• Kurose, Ross, “Computer networking: a top-down approach". Pearson.
• John Day, “Patterns in network architecture: a return to fundamentals”. Prentice Hall.
• Olivier Bonaventure. “Computer Networking: Principles, Protocols, and Practice” http://inl.info.ucl.ac.be/cnp3