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Computer Networking course : part 4 (Network layer)
Thu, 10/29/2009 - 17:06 by Olivier Bonaventure • Categories:
First part (basics, distance vector routing)
Second part (link state routing, IPv4)
Due to a computer bug, this part was not recorded correctly
Alcatel-Lucent Innovation award
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 00:10 by Olivier Bonaventure • Categories:
Grégory Detal has received the 2009 Alcatel-Lucent innovation award for his MSc thesis On monitoring large-scale Wireless Mesh Networks.
Datacenter tutorial
Wed, 10/21/2009 - 23:39 by Olivier Bonaventure • Categories:
Datacenters are now an emerging topic in the networking community and we can expect that more and more papers will develop techniques and protocols to solve problems inside data centers. A SIGMETRICS, Albert Greenberg gave an interesting tutorial on current datacenters design and some of the issues that they face.
Numbers everyone should know
Wed, 10/21/2009 - 23:31 by Olivier Bonaventure • Categories:
In a recent presentation at the LADIS 2009 workshop, Jeff Dean, Google Fellow in Google's Systems Infrastructure Group, gave an interesting talk on the large scale distributed systems that are in use inside google. Although the presentation does not reveal trade secrets, it provides interesting hints about some of the issues that google is addressing and the size of their infrastructure.
SimBGP with AddPaths support
Wed, 10/21/2009 - 15:00 by Virginie Van den Schrieck • Categories:
The original SimBGP simulator available on BGPVista website is a lightweight event-driven simulator developped by Jian Qiu.
The extended version of SimBGP we developped provides support to the Add-Paths BGP extension, with several selection modes available. We also provide the set of validation tests that were used during the development process.
Internet traffic is changing
Tue, 10/20/2009 - 10:29 by Olivier Bonaventure • Categories:
During NANOG47, Craig Labovitz and his colleagues unveiled a new study about the traffic distribution in the Internet.
In contrast with most scientific studies that analyses Internet traffic from a few measurement points, this study was able to analyse statistics coming from more than 110 ISPs for a total aggregated throughput of 14 Tbps. The major findings of this study are :