Design and Implementation of High Speed Network Systems Notes

Design and Implementation of High Speed Network Systems

       Instructor:

Prof. Shie-Yuan Wang

Course description:

Present Gigabit networks and the design and implementation of UNIX network system. Present and study the performance bottleneck of a UNIX host and router when operating on Gigabit networks. Present, study, and design techniques that can allow a UNIX host and router to better utilize Gbps bandwidth. This course will come with several experiments so that you can have hand-on experiences on expensive Gbps and 2 Gbps high-speed network equipments. In this year, students taking this course will jointly do a TOE (TCP Offload Engine) research project.

Prerequisite:

This course is for CSIE graduate students and senior (4^th) undergraduate students. If you decide to take this course, you are expected to have taken “computer network” and “operating system” courses

References:

• Gigabit Ethernet, Rich Seifert, Addison-Wesley, 1998 (Chapter 9 and 10)
• Gigabit Networking, Craig Partridge, Addison-Wesley, 1994 (Chapter 9, 10 and 14)
• The design and implementation of the 4.4 BSD operating system, Marshall et. al. , Addison-Wesley, 1996 (Chapter 12 and 13)

Course handout

File	Topic	References
Lecture note 1	Gigabit Ethernet
Lecture note 2	2 Gigabit/sec Myrinet
Lecture note 3	UNIX I/O System, Device Driver, Interrupt Handling
Lecture note 4	UNIX Network System: Socket API
Lecture note 5	UNIX Network System: Socket Design and Implementation
Lecture note 6	Make Hosts Ready for Gigabit Networks
Lecture note 7	Make Protocols Ready for Gigabit Networks