Seminar: Communication Systems

SDN architecture on the left, QoS queues on the right

Details

Type of course Seminar (2 SWS)
ECTS credits 2.5 or 5
Language German or English
Seminar Thursday, 12:15 pm – 01:45 pm, room 04.137 UnivIS

Content

Teilnehmende arbeiten sich selbständig anhand der ausgewählten wissenschaftlichen Literatur in ein vorgeschlagenes Thema aus dem Bereich der Kommunikationssysteme ein, erstellen dazu eine schriftliche Ausarbeitung, bereiten einen Seminarvortrag vor und präsentieren ihn vor Lehrenden, interessierten wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeitern des Instituts und Kommilitonen der Lehrveranstaltung.

Educational Objectives and Competencies

Zu den zu erwerbenden Kompetenzen zählen
  • die Literaturrecherche,
  • korrektes Zitieren,
  • die Fähigkeit auszuwählen, welche Aspekte in der Ausarbeitung und im Vortrag behandelt werden,
  • zielgruppengerechtes Schreiben,
  • die Verwendung von Textverarbeitungswerkzeugen für die Präsentation – und die Ausarbeitung,
  • sicheres Auftreten beim Vortragen eines wissenschaftlichen Themas sowie
  • fachspezifische Fragen zum ausgewählten Themengebiet zu beantworten.
Am Ende jeder Lehreinheit
  • stellen die Teilnehmenden gezielt Fragen zum vorgetragenen Thema,
  • diskutieren über fachliche Aspekte der Präsentation,
  • üben konstruktive Kritik an der Darstellung des Themas und
  • bewerten die Präsentation aus vortragstechnischer Sicht.

Literature

  • gesammelte Bücher, Artikel und Weblinks zu einem einschlägigen Themengebiet
  • Reinhard German. Allgemeine Hinweise zu Seminarvorträgen und -ausarbeitungen.

Winter Term 2019/2020: Quality-of-Service and Traffic Engineering with Software Defined Networking

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a paradigm shift in networking to decouple the control plane from the data plane and place the control of the system in a logically centralized node called “SDN controller”. The SDN controller has a view of the entire network and can perform online control actions. Quality-of-Service (QoS) refers to traffic characteristics and requirements such as load, delay, and loss and is important in today and future networking. Traffic engineering (TE) refers to the selection of routing paths through a network in order to satisfy certain conditions, such as low resource utilization or achieving QoS goals, important techniques in this context are constraint-based routing algorithms. With SDN new opportunities have emerged. In this seminar we will first recapitulate some basic principles on the subject and then read and present recent research papers.

Winter Term 2019/2020: Preliminary list of topics and its sources

  • SDN and Network Optimization Recapitulated
    • R. German, “Lecture Notes on QoS in Communication Systems”
    • further selected references
  • SDN and QoS
    • M. Karakus et al., “Quality of Service (QoS) in Software Defined Networking (SDN): A survey”, Journal of Network and Computer Applications 80 (2017) 200–218
    • A. Binsahaq et al. “A Survey on Autonomic Provisioning and Management of QoS in SDN Networks”, IEEE Access, 2019
  • Traffic Engineering with SDN
    • A. Mendiola et al. “A Survey on the Contributions of Software-Defined Networking to Traffic Engineering”, IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SURVEYS & TUTORIALS, VOL. 19, NO. 2, SECOND QUARTER 2017
  • Network Planning with SDN
    • S.-C. Lin et al., “Towards Optimal Network Planning for Software-Defined Networks”, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING, VOL. 17, NO. 12, DECEMBER 2018
  • Constraint-Based Routing with SDN
    • S. Layeghy et al, “SCOR: Software-defined Constrained Optimal Routing Platform for SDN”, Cornell University, 2016
  • Iterative solution of SDN Routing
    • A Destounis et al., “Minimum Cost SDN Routing With Reconfiguration Frequency Constraints”, IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING
  • Unicast QoS Routing in SDN
    • W. Guck et al., “Unicast QoS Routing Algorithms for SDN: A Comprehensive Survey and Performance Evaluation”, IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SURVEYS & TUTORIALS, VOL. 20, NO. 1, FIRST QUARTER 2018
    • R. G. Parroppo et al. “A survey on multi-constrained optimal path computation: Exact and approximate algorithms”, Computer Networks, 2010
  • QoS Monitoring in SDN
    • D. Raumer et al., “MonSamp: A Distributed SDN Application for QoS Monitoring”, Proc. of the 2014 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems pp. 961–968
    • P.-W. Tsai et al., “Network Monitoring in Software-Defined Networking: A Review”, IEEE SYSTEMS JOURNAL, VOL. 12, NO. 4, DECEMBER 2018
  • Using Network Calculus for Assessing QoS in SDN I
    • W. Guck et al., “DetServ: Network Models for Real-Time QoS Provisioning in SDN-based Industrial Environments”, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (Volume: 14 , Issue: 4 , Dec. 2017)
  • Using Network Calculus for Assessing QoS in SDN II
    • S.-C. Lin et al., “Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation in SDN based Next Generation Virtual Networks: A Deterministic Network Calculus Approach”, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING, VOL. 17, NO. 12, DECEMBER 2018


Seminar

All talks can be given in German or English, the seminar is thus open for German as well as international students. However, English is recommended for improving presentation skills.
Send an e-mail to lorenz.ammon@fau.de for registration and topic preferences.

  • The first meeting will take place on Oct. 24th.

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