CSE 6392 Multiservice Switching Architecture Hao Che Woolf Hall 208 2:00pm – 3:20pm, Tuesday & Thursday

Multiservice Switching Architecture (CSE6392) Instructor: Hao Che GTA: Zhijun Wang Required Text: No Course Objectives:  To understand general concepts of multiservice networking and gain a system view of multiservice switching architectures  To gain in-depth understanding of one or two current research topics in communication networks

Brief Bio UT/Arlington: M.S. (1994) in Physics UT/Austin: Ph.D. (1998) in ECE Penn State University: Assistant Professor ( ) in EE Santera Systems Inc: System Architect ( ) UT/Arlington: Assistant Professor (Now) in CSE

Course Admin Web Site: –Schedule, Syllabus, Class Materials/Information - will be used for time-critical info and web account setup –Send GTA an note from your preferred account with your full name and “CSE 6392” in the subject line today Grading Policy (subject to changes) –Quizzes50% –Presentation 50%

Course Admin Office Hours –General Rule: –General Rule: If it’s not during scheduled office hours,or if you don’t have an appointment….. I’m not in. –Hao Che’s Office Hours (NH 325) Tuesday and Thursday: 12:30pm – 1:50pm or, by Appointment (i.e. a time scheduled in advance)

How to Take this Course? Don’t assume the instructor has answers to all the questions The instructor will cover only the general aspects of networking You need to be self-motivated and find answers on specific topics by yourself and share them with others (meaning you have to do a lot of homework although no homework is assigned) There is no textbook for this course. You need to search for references by yourself, as part of the homework

Networking Research Areas  NSF Classification: Network Trustworthiness Core NetworkingWireless NetworkingOptical Networking Middleware/Grid Computing Distributed, Ubiquitous, Pervasive Computing

Course Coverage  Multiservice Networking Architecture  Overlay models: ELAN, Classical IP over ATM, MPOA  MPLS  General concepts  ATM LSR  Ships-in-the-night  DiffServ-MPLS architecture  Resource provisioning  High availability  Multiservice over MPLS

Course Coverage (cont’d)  Switching System Architecture  Hardware  Traditional approaches  Distributed architecture  Network interface cards: framer, SAR (loopback), network processor, TCAM coprocessor, network management module, local CPU  Switching fabric  Control processor  Software  Control plane  Management subplane  Control functions: ATM, IP routing, MPLS, DiffServ, COPS  System subplane  Data plane (see next slide)

Course Coverage (cont’d)  Data plane  Pre-queuing packet processing procedure  Queue management and scheduling  Function partitioning  Control and Data plane function separation: ARP, PPP, ICMP, etc.  Function partitioning between ingress and egress NICs  Control card redundancy  Packet classification: TCAM solution  Flow classification: VoIP, dNAT  Advanced Topics  Internet design principles  Current trends in Internet design