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Friday, August 20: Tutorials
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Tutorial T1 8:30AM - 12:00PM
Home Networking, the Next Frontier
Peter Ford, Microsoft
The Internet is becoming a pervasive infrastructure for education, business
and government. For most residences, the Internet appears as a single
node terminated by a personal computer. As the cost of networking
hardware and software continues to decline it opens new opportunities for
extending the Internet into homes using low cost LAN technologies and TCP/IP.
In this tutorial we will survey the different media being considered for
home networking, and the software architectures needed to make networking
in the Home possible. We will also survey emerging network technologies
as they apply to home networking such as Service Location and IP
telephony as well as industry initiatives such as the PC industry's Universal
Plug and Play (UPnP) and JINI. The challenges and opportunities of
Home Networking is the next frontier of the Internet.
Required Background:
Basic networking concepts such as familiarity with the
Internet Protocol Suite, Appletalk or IPX
Speaker Biography:
Peter S. Ford is a networking architect in Microsoft's Windows Operating
Systems Division and has led the program management team in IPSEC, QoS,
and TCP/IP for Windows 2000. Prior to joining Microsoft he worked
at internetMCI and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Mr. Ford worked
at the National Science Foundation on the program to transition the NSFNET
to ISPs and is often blamed for the creation of NAPs.
Tutorial T2 8:30AM - 12:00PM
Differentiated Services, A Framework for Internet-friendly QoS
Kathleen Nichols, Cisco Systems
This tutorial will cover what differentiated services is, background on
how the differentiated services approach evolved, current results on use
of differentiated services, and the current status in the IETF.
Required Background:
Basic understanding of TCP/IP protocols.
Biography:
Kathleen Nichols is co-chair of the IETF Differentiated Services Working
Group, a co-author of RFC 2474 which defines the proposed standard, and
a co-author of a number of other differentiated services Internet-Drafts
and pending RFCs. She works at Cisco Systems where she is manager of QoS
Architectures.
Tutorial T3 1:30PM - 5:00PM
Voice Over IP, Call Control and Signaling
Lyndon Ong, Bay Architecture Laboratory, Nortel Networks
This tutorial provides a basic understanding of the emerging signaling
protocols for voice over IP and how they will support unified networking
for carrier and enterprise services. The tutorial covers:
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Overview of VoIP elements
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gateways and voice encoding alternatives
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voice transport over IP
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signaling and the interworking of packet and circuit networks
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Call control protocols for VoIP
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the Megaco device control model
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Megaco protocol characteristics
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peer-to-peer signaling methods - H.323 and SIP
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Signaling transport issues
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Signaling reliability over IP
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Signaling Gateways
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Interworking of PSTN signaling networks and IP
Required Background:
Basic understanding of TCP/IP protocols.
Biography:
Lyndon Ong is a Senior Architect in the Bay Architecture Laboratory,
responsible for architecture and design of signaling protocols for Nortel
Networks' Enterprise Solutions organization. He also consults with
Nortel's Carrier Packet Solutions organization in the area of SS7-Internet
interworking. Prior to joining Bay Networks, Dr. Ong was a Senior
Staff Engineer at Bellcore, where he led the development and specification
of SS7 signaling protocols and was active in national and international
standards bodies addressing SS7 signaling and ATM network standards.
Tutorial T4 1:30PM - 5:00PM
High Performance Switches and Routers: Theory and Practice
Nick McKeown, Stanford University
In this tutorial, we will study how high performance, multigigabit and
terabit switches and routers are architected. The tutorial will cover both
theoretical and practical aspects.
Although different in their detailed operation, all high performance
packet-switches share three common features:
(1) "Where" (Routing/Classification/Lookup) --- When a new packet arrives
the packet switch must decide where the packet is going next, and hence
through which port(s) it will depart from the packet switch. (It may optionally
decide whether it should be forwarded, and what quality of service it should
receive),
(2) "How" (Interconnection Fabric/Switching) --- The packet switch
must then deliver the packet across a backplane or through an interconnection
fabric to the selected outgoing port(s).
(3) "When" (Output link scheduling) --- Finally, the packet switch
must decide when the packet departs.
In this tutorial, we will review the basic properties of packet-switches,
go through each of the three stages outlined above, describing how they
are performed in LAN switches, ATM switches and IP Routers. We will explain
the main research results, and underlying theory in each area.
We will then make some (wild) predictions about what's coming next..
Required Background:
A good understanding of IP and Ethernet, such as provided by an introductory
course or textbook. A basic understanding of ATM would be useful.
Biography:
Nick McKeown is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science at Stanford University. He received his Phd from the University
of California at Berkeley in 1995. From 1986-1989 he worked for Hewlett-Packard
Labs, in their network and communications research group in Bristol, England.
During the Spring of 1995, he worked briefly for Cisco Systems where he
helped architect the GSR 12000 router. Nick is a Senior Member of
the IEEE, serves as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications,
is the Robert Noyce Faculty Fellow at Stanford, and recipient of a fellowship
from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Nick is currently on leave from
Stanford at Abrizio Inc.
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