Slides

Lecture slides will appear here after each lecture. The slides are organized in chapters which might span one or more lectures and are updated afterwards.

  1. Introduction
    Basic elements of a protocol, two example protocols and their design flaws

  2. Design Principles
    Design aspects, Internet design principles

  3. The Design Process
    Development process models, Requirements engineering

  4. Protocol Specification
    Part I: Finite State Machines, UML state machines, UML sequence diagrams
    Part II: Extended FSM models, SDL state charts, MSCs and LSCs
     Part III: Data/message format specification in ABNF, CSN.1, and ASN.1
  5. Validation
    Part I: Validation Models in Promela
    Part II: Model checking with SPIN, Correctness Claims
    Part III: Specifying Correctness in Temporal Logic
  6. Design and Implementation Techniques
    Ressource Constraints and Design Techniques,
    Protocol Building Blocks, State Machine Implementation
  7. Simulation
    Part I: Simulation Models, Arrival Processes Part II: Network simulation, OMNeT
  8. Analytical Evaluation
    Case studies of ALOHA, TCP
    Slides     (updated 19.07.09)