Network Management and Services (30 hours) – B. Martini

• What is Network Management and how it works in IP and transport networks
• Management protocols (i.e., SNMP, NETCONF, CMIP)
• Data modeling and data syntax languages (i.e., SMI, GDMO)

Lab of Network Software (25 hours) – A.Giorgetti

• Introduction to software defined networking (SDN): what is an SDN network? which are the main benefits of SDN with respect to traditional layer2-layer3 networks?
• Introduction to the OpenFlow protocol: switch specification and protocol specification.
• Setup of a set of software tools to emulate an SDN network and experiment on it (OpenVSwitch, Mininet, ONOS, IntelliJ).
• Introduction to an open-source SDN controller: ONOS.
• Architecture of ONOS and its main interfaces.
• Development of simple network applications in ONOS.

FPGAs for Communications Networks Prototyping (20 hours) - L. Valcarenghi

• What is an FPGA and what can be used for in communications networks
• FPGA design flows: schematic-based design flow, HDL-based design flow, modular and incremental design
• Design Tools: simulation, synthesis, verification

Project/Final test