ECE 695U - Principles of Network Management Systems
Course Details
Lecture Hours: 3 Credits: 3
Counts as:
Experimental Course Offered:
Spring 2007
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 direction in the research community and in the industry.
Required Text(s):
- Automated Network Management Systems , D. Comer , Prentice Hall , 2006 , ISBN No. 0132393085
Recommended Text(s):
None.
Lecture Outline:
Weeks | Topics |
---|---|
1 | Introduction to the class and problem area |
1 | Background and Scope: network elements and element management systems heterogeneity and scale; network types |
1 | Fault detection, diagnosis and correction |
1 | Network Monitoring |
1 | Topology Discovery |
2 | Configuration and operation: errors, static analysis, automated provisioning |
1 | Accounting and Traffic Management |
1 | Inter-domain Routing: BGP: Routing and Management |
1 | Performance Monitoring and assessment |
3 | Security: DoS, Intrusion Detection, Worm Propagation, Firewalls |
1 | Existing network management tools and interfaces, SNMP, Netflow |
1 | Clean Slate Approaches to Network Management |
Assessment Method:
none