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Students

• master protocols, architectures, and methods and algorithms that are used on the Internet for routing and for establishing a reliable end-to-end connection, as well as various media allocation procedures in local networks.
• have an understanding of the systems and the problems that appear in a global, dynamic network as well as the mechanisms used to remedy them.
• are familiar with current developments such as SDN and data center networking.
• know methods to manage and administrate networks.

Students master the basic protocol mechanisms for establishing reliable end-to-end communication. Students have detailed knowledge of the mechanisms used in TCP for congestion and flow control and can discuss the issue of fairness with multiple parallel transport streams. Students can analytically determine the performance of transport protocols and know methods that fulfill special requirements of TCP, such as high data rates and short latencies. Students are familiar with current topics such as problems introduced by utilization of middle boxes in the Internet, the use of TCP in data centers and multipath TCP. Students can use transport protocols in practice.

Students know the functions of routers in the Internet and can reproduce and apply common routing algorithms. Students can reproduce the architecture of a router and know different approaches to buffer placement as well as their advantages and disadvantages.

Students understand the distinction of routing protocols into interior and exterior gateway protocols and have detailed knowledge of the functionality and properties of common protocols such as RIP, OSPF and BGP. The students are familiar with current topics such as SDN.

Students know the function of media allocation and can classify and analytically evaluate media allocation processes. Students have in-depth knowledge of Ethernet and are familiar with various Ethernet forms and their differences, especially current developments such as real-time Ethernet and data center Ethernet. Students can reproduce and apply the spanning tree protocol.
Students can reproduce the technical characteristics of DSL. Students are familiar with the concept of label switching and can compare existing approaches such as MPLS.

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• Introduction
• End-to-end data transport
• Routing protocols and architectures
• Media allocation
• Bridges
• Data transmission
• Further selected examples
• Network management

180 hrs.