Università Roma Tre

THEORY:
- Course Introduction: What are networks? Small worlds, Social and Telecommunications networks
- Network performance: Delay, Packet loss, Throughput, Jitter
- Transport layer: Basics on TCP, Timers, Flow and Congestion Control
- Data information sources: Average rate and peak rate, Burstiness, traffic sources in NS2
- Network Applications: Network Application Architectures (Client-Server and P2P), Peer-to-Peer applications (BitTorrent and Skype), HTTP and FTP, DNS
- VANETs: Introduction to Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks, main aspects and differences with MANETs, Safety and comfort applications, communication protocols
- Search Engines: Link structure and TF-IDF, Page Ranking techniques (HITS, PageRank)

LAB ACTIVITIES:
- Introduction to Network Simulator (NS2) and Network AniMator (NAM), Events in NS2
- The Tcl language
- Objects in NS2
- Post processing in NS2
- How to use NSCRIPT
- How to use XGRAPH
- Simulation results in XGRAPH
- Introduction to IEEE 802.11 networks and Mobile IP
- Mobility in NS2 with NSG2.1

- DISPENSE A CURA DEL DOCENTE
- J.F. KUROSE, AND K.W. ROSS, “COMPUTER NETWORKING: A TOP-DOWN APPROACH”, 5TH EDITION, ADDISON WESLEY
- A.S. TANENBAUM, “COMPUTER NETWORKS”, 4TH EDITION, PRENTICE HALL 2002.
- D. EASLEY, AND J. KELINBERG, “NETWORKS, CROWDS, AND MARKETS: REASONING ABOUT A HIGHLY CONNECTED WORLD”, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2010.
- MANUALI ONLINE DI NS2