1. 1 CPSC 641: Performance Issues in High Speed Networks n Professor Carey Williamson Department of Computer Science University of Calgary n Graduate-level course on high speed networks and network performance issues n URL http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~carey/CPSC641

2. 2 Motivation “Opening a highway does not by itself drastically change the speed of the bicycles” - Ancient Proverb

3. 3 High Speed Networking: A Layered View n Video, Web, FTP n TCP/IP, UDP n Unix n VAX, Alpha n Adapters, NICs n FDDI, GigE, ATM n Fiber, SONET, WiFi Application Designers Protocol Architects O.S. Architects CPU, Memory,Disk LAN Interfaces Media Access Optical Devices

4. 4 High Speed Networking: A Layered View n Faster media does not necessarily imply faster network applications n Interdependence between layers n Interactions between protocols n Need to consider trends of all layers

5. 5 Course Overview n Main focus: Internet technologies, protocols, and applications n Secondary focus: Performance issues n Textbook: None (current literature only) Goal: Understanding the current state of the art for high speed networking research

6. 6 Contact Information n Professor: Carey Williamson n Office: ICT 740 n Phone: (403) 220-6780 (my office) n Fax: (403) 284-4707 (CS dept) n Email: carey@cpsc.ucalgary.ca n URL: http://www.cpsc.ucalgary/~carey n URL for course info, notes, assignments: http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~carey/CPSC641