ECE 695R - Principles of Network Management Systems
Course Details
Lecture Hours: 3 Credits: 3
Counts as:
Experimental Course Offered:
Spring 2006
Catalog Description:
We will study the construction of large, distributed, automated software systems that configure, monitor, operate, and control large-scale computer networks and internets. We will define the problem, investigate the scope, and examine principles. We will investigate existing tools, platforms, and paradigms, and seek abstractions that can be used to build efficient management software systems.
Course Objectives:
Current Networking courses are broad in scope. This course goes in depth into a narrower subtopic that traditionally does not receive as much attention, but is emerging as an increasingly important research direction.
Required Text(s):
- Network Management: Principles And Practice , Corner, D. , Prentice Hall , 2006
Recommended Text(s):
None.
Lecture Outline:
Lectures | Topics |
---|---|
2 | Introduction to the class and problem area |
2 | Background: network elements and element management systems |
2 | Scope of the problem: heterogeneity and scale; network types |
2 | Aspects of FCAPS: configuration and operation |
2 | Aspects of FCAPS: fault detection and correction |
2 | Aspects of FCAPS: measurement and accounting |
2 | Aspects of FCAPS: performance monitoring and assessment |
2 | Aspects of FCAPS: security |
2 | Existing network management tools and interfaces |
2 | Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) |
2 | NetFiow data and session analysis |
2 | Scripting and examples of management |
2 | Automated network management systems |
2 | Design tradeoffs and open questions |
2 | Student project presentations |
Assessment Method:
none