Advanced Topics in Networking

"Advanced Topics in Networking" is a course for M.Sc. students of Computer Science (and related study programs). It is held as a combination of a lecture and exercises.

Instructor:	Prof. Dr. David Hausheer
Assistants:	Lars-Christian Schulz, Robin Wehner, Tony John
Hours per week:	2 + 2
Credits:	6
Lecture:	Wednesday, 09:30 - 11:00, Location: G22A-211 Kick-off: 16.10.2024, 09:30, Location: G29-307
Exercises:	Monday, 11:15 - 12:45, Location: G29-334 Friday, 09:15 - 10:45, Location: G29-334
Exam:	Written Exam (In case of few registrations, an oral exam will be held.)
Languages:	English

Course Description

The course deals with advanced topics in the area of networking, a.o.:

Overlay Networks for Content Delivery, e.g. P2P, BitTorrent, CDNs, Caching, Overlay Video Streaming
Distributed Hash Tables (DHT), e.g. Kademlia
Blockchains
Cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin
Ethereum and Smart Contracts
Secure Network Architectures, e.g. SCION
Congestion Control, e.g. QUIC and Multipath-QUIC

Students will get a deep insight into various advanced topics in the area of networking.

Literature

Textbooks as indicated.

Slides and paper copies as necessary.

Requirements

Basic courses of the first 4 semesters are required. Knowledge of lectures Communication and Networks are recommended.

Resources

The course material will be made available using the Moodle platform:

https://elearning.ovgu.de/course/view.php?id=17821