High-Performance Network Function, Data Center, and Virtualization. 3 credits, 3 contact hours

Catalog description

The course introduces network algorithms for pragmatic implementations of network functions that target high-performance communications used at different network zones and Internet applications. Examples of such functions are Internet packet address (IP) lookup, packet classification, firewalling, scheduling, service chaining, WAN access, and operations at various levels of the protocol stack. The course also introduces architectures of data-center networks and data-center transport protocols, and the use and impact of virtualization on network functions.