Network Technologies and Protocols

Contents

• Technologies for Access and Core Networks,
• Optical networks,
• Network Interconnections,
• Mobility and Mobility Protocols for IP Networks

Learning Outcomes

• Understand and explain the theoretical concepts that support the main networking technologies
• Give examples and discuss the use of technologies in different scenarios of network interconnections
• Identify, discuss and configure the main routing protocols in IP networks (v4/v6), either for intra and inter- Autonomous Systems interconnections
• Understand and explain the principles of mobility in IP networks (v4/v6), and analyze and configure mobility solutions

Bibliography

• A. Gumaste and Tony Antony, First Mile Access Networks and Enabling Technologies, Cisco Press, 2004.
• Glen Kramer, Ethernet Passive Optical Networks, McGraw-Hill Communications Engineering, 2005.
• R. Ramaswami, K. Sivarajan, G. Sasaki, Optical Networks: A Practical Perspective, 3rd Ed, Elsevier Inc., 2010
• S. Ovadia, Broadband Cable TV Access Networks: From Technologies to Applications, Prentice Hall, 2001.
• Ravi Malhotra, IP Routing, Publisher: O'Reilly, 2002
• Silvia Hagen, IPv6 Essentials, OReilly, 2006
• H. Soliman, Mobile IPv6 - Mobility in a wireless Internet, Addison-Wesley, 2004