CYCU EE-617R/407L

Network Systems Design

• • Course Objectives

Emerging network packet processing applications are shifting from routing and traffic management to those requiring inspection and modification of packet contents. Examples include content-based billing and quality of service, layer-7 switching, and network security. The requirement to process every byte of a packet exceeds the already-substantial processing capabilities of high-speed networking equipment.

Network processors (NPs) are application-specific processors that are optimized to bridge the gap between ASIC performance and the programmability of general-purpose processors. Most current NPs employ multiple optimized cores, operating independently in MIMD (Multiple Instruction stream, Multiple Data stream) fashion, usually with multiple threads per processor to hide latency to memory.

In this course, we are going to cover the network sytems design and architecture exploration of the network processor.

• • • Upon finishing this course, students will be able to

      • Understand the major hardware/software architecture for packet processing.

      • Gain the concepts of network systems design by using Network Processor

      • Understand the Network Processor technology and operations.

• • Lecture Time & Place:

Tuesday 14:10~17:00 PM

篤信305

• • Office Hour:

電學507, Tuesday, 13:10~14:00PM

• • Textbook

    • Network Systems Design Using Network Processors (IXP2xxx Version) by Douglas Comer

  • Prerequisites

    • Students are recommended to have basic knowledge of C programming language, microprocessor architectures, and computer networks.

  • Course Schedule

• • Grading

• • Project & Labs Resources

  • NetFPGA

    • Coralreef CAIDA Tools

    • CoralReef software suite as a tool for system and network administrators

    • The architecture of the CoralReef Internet Traffic monitoring software suite

    • Network Simulator 2 (NS2)

      • NS-2 homepage and NS-2 manual

      • NS-2 tutorial and NS simulator for beginners

    • Intel IXP2800 SDK

    • Some useful Perl resources

      • Perl Tutorial - Duke University

      • Perl - CLCG Tutorials

    • The ppt slides for some tools introduced in class

  • Paper Review

    • How to review a technical paper by Alan Meier

  • Resources

    • TCP splicing

      • TCPSP - an open source TCP splicing implementation

Reading List

• • Network Processors

• • IP

• • Router & Switch Architectures

• • Network Measurement

• • NIDS

Backtracking Algorithmic Complexity Attacks Against a NIDS, Randy Smith, Cristian Estan, Somesh Jha, ACSAC, December 2006

• • TCP Splicing

• • Content Awared Switch