CP7101 DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTER NETWORKS

CP7101     DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTER NETWORKS

UNIT I          INTRODUCTION TO NETWORK MANAGEMENT

Overview of Analysis, Architecture and Design Process-System Methodology, Service methodology, Service Description - Service characteristics - Performance Characteristics - Network supportability - Requirement analysis – User Requirements – Application Requirements – Device Requirements – Network Requirements – Other Requirements - Requirement specification and map.  

UNIT II        REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS

Requirement Analysis Process – Gathering and Listing Requirements- Developing service metrics – Characterizing behavior – Developing RMA requirements – Developing delay Requirements - Developing capacity Requirements - Developing supplemental performance Requirements – Requirements mapping – Developing the requirements specification  

UNIT III         FLOW ANALYSIS 

Individual and Composite Flows – Critical Flows - Identifying and developing flows – Data sources and sinks – Flow models- Flow prioritization – Flow specification algorithms – Example Applications of Flow Analysis  

UNIT IV        NETWORK ARCHITECTURE    

Architecture and design – Component Architectures – Reference Architecture – Architecture Models – System and Network Architecture – Addressing and Routing Architecture – Addressing and Routing Fundamentals – Addressing Mechanisms – Addressing Strategies – Routing Strategies – Network Management Architecture – Network Management Mechanisms Performance Architecture – Performance Mechanisms – Security and Privacy Architecture – Planning security and privacy Mechanisms  

UNIT V        NETWORK DESIGN

Design Concepts – Design Process - Network Layout – Design Traceability – Design Metrics – Logical Network Design – Topology Design – Bridging, Switching and Routing Protocols- Physical Network Design – Selecting Technologies and Devices for Campus and Enterprise Networks – Optimizing Network Design

REFERENCES:  

1. Network Analysis, Architecture, and Design By James D. McCabe, Morgan Kaufmann, Third Edition, 2007.ISBN-13: 978-0123704801 

2. Computer Networks: A Systems Approach by Larry L. Peterson, Bruce S. Davie -  2007, Elsevier Inc. 

3. Top-down Network Design: [a Systems Analysis Approach to Enterprise Network Design] By Priscilla Oppenheimer, Cisco Press , 3rd Edition, ISBN-13: 978-1-58720- 283-4 ISBN-10: 158720-283-2 

4. Integrated Management of Networked Systems: Concepts, Architectures, and Their Operational Application (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking), Heinz-Gerd Hegering, Sebastian Abeck, and Bernhard Neumair, 1999. 

5. “Network Design and Management” – by Steven T.Karris, Orchard publications,  Second edition, Copyright 2009, ISBN 978-1-934404-15-7 

6. “Network Design, Management and Technical Perspective”, Teresa C. Mann-Rubinson and Kornel Terplan, CRC Press, 1999 

7. “Ethernet Networks-Design, Implementation, Operation and Management  by Gilbert Held, John Wiley and sons, Fourth Edition 

8. James Kurose and Keith Ross, “Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet”, 1999