Cloud and Datacenter Networking (3 CFU)
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria Informatica
Prof. Roberto Canonico
Course syllabusA.A. 2021-22
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Lectures will also be live streamed on Microsoft Teams. To join the live online lecture on Microsoft Teams students must join the course team by using the code g5z7mr8
| Lesson no. | Date | Slides / References | Topics |
| 1 | 08/03/2022 | Course introduction. Datacenter architecture and organization. Rack layout. Cabling. TIA-942 Standard. Air conditioning and cooling plant. UPS and emergency generators. |
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| 2 | 15/03/2022 |
Energy efficiency of a datacenter. Power Usage Effectiveness. Datacenter Tiers (UpTime Institute classification). Modular datacenters. Small-scale sample datacenter layouts. Ethernet switching basic concepts. Datacenter networking infrastructure. Access layer and aggregation layer. Access layer: ToR and EoR organizations. Oversubscription ratio. Bandwidth aggregation techniques. IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation. IEEE 802.1ax Link Aggregation Protocol LACP. |
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| 3 | 22/03/2022 |
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Switching theory fundamentals. Head-of-Line blocking. Clos networks. Clos theorem. Datacenter networks: aggregation layer. Datacenter network infrastructure evolution. Fat-tree topology. Leaf-spine topology. Some examples of large scale datacenter networks. Fat-tree: a scalable, commodity data center network architecture. |
| 4 | 29/03/2022 |
Loop management in Ethernet networks. STP protocol. |
Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) and its use in datacenter networks. Multiple path routing in datacenter networks. Equal cost multi-path (ECMP). Improving ECMP load balancing with Flowlets. Virtual networking in multitenant cloud datacenters. VLANs. VLAN trunking. Inter-VLAN routing. Multi-layer switches and Virtual Switch Interfaces. IEEE 802.1ad (Q-in-Q). Introduction to encapsulation techniques: VxLAN. |
| 5 | 05/04/2022 |
Virtual networking in multitenant cloud datacenters. Encapsulation techniques. Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN): A Framework for Overlaying Virtualized Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. NVGRE. Use of MPLS in datacenter networks. Storage technologies for datacenters: DAS, NAS and SAN. SSD disks for datacenter servers. Fibre Channel. Network convergence. iSCSI. Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). |
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| 6 | 12/04/2022 |
Introduction to virtualization technologies and their use in modern datacenters. A Linux-based hypervisor: KVM. Virtual switches in type-1 and type-2 hypervisors. VM networking in a Linux based host. Macvlan. Linux Bridge. |
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| 7 | 26/04/2022 |
General ideas of Cloud Computing. Cloud service models: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS. Introduction to AWS Cloud services. AWS EC2 and S3 public IaaS services. |
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| 8 | 03/05/2022 |
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An introduction to OpenStack. OpenStack: a quick tour with DevStack. OpenStack dashboard and CLI commands. Software Defined Networking: concept and applications. |
| 9 | 10/05/2022 |
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Software Defined Networking: concept, vision and applications. Introduction to OpenFlow. OpenFlow networks: proactive vs reactive control. OpenFlow: flow table, pipelining of flow tables, group table. |
| S1 | 13/05/2022 | Seminario su Software Defined Networking e Cisco Intent-Based
Networking. Cristian Perissinotto (CISCO). |
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| 10 | 17/05/2022 |
An introduction to the Mininet network emulator. Open vSwitch as an OpenFlow switch. A high-level review of OpenFlow controllers. |
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| 11 | 24/05/2022 |
Use of Mininet in combination with the Ryu controller: how to write a control plane logic in Python for the Ryu controller. VxLAN encapsulation demo with GNS3. |
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| 12 | 31/05/2022 |
TCP performance problems in datacenter networks. TCP Incast. Datacenter-specific TCP variants: DCTCP. Evolution of Dropbox network infrastructure. Virtualizzazione container-based. Docker. Dimostrazione delle procedure di uso e gestione dei container Docker. |
