# Advanced Topics in Networking

##### Winter 


##### (in German: Advanced Topics in Networking )

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<span style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61);">ATN </span>

</td><td class="align-center" style="border: 5px solid rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61);">**Credit Points**</span>

<span style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61);">6 </span>

</td><td class="align-center" style="border: 5px solid rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61);">**Semester**</span>

<span style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61);">Winter </span>

</td><td class="align-center" style="border: 5px solid rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61);">**Term**</span>

<span style="color: #3d3d3d;">starting at 1. </span>

</td><td class="align-center" style="border: 5px solid rgb(255, 255, 255);">**<span style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61);">Duration</span>**

<span style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61);">1 Semester </span>

</td><td class="align-center" style="border: 5px solid rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61);">**Language**</span>

<span style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61);">english</span>

</td><td class="align-center" style="border: 5px solid rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61);">**Level**</span>

<span style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61);">Master </span>

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- Exercise *Advanced Topics in Networking*

 </td></tr><tr style="height: 29.8px;"><td style="height: 29.8px;">**Applicability in curriculum:**</td><td style="height: 29.8px;">- M.Sc. INF: Informatik  
- M.Sc. INGINF: Informatik  
- M.Sc. WIF: Informatik  
- M.Sc. DE: Methoden der Informatik  
- M.Sc. DE: Fachliche Spezialisierung  
- M.Sc. VC: Computer Science  
  
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**Intended learning outcomes:** Students...

- enhance their competence in the area of networking
- understand advanced networking concepts
- can explain these concepts to other participants
- are able to apply these concepts in theoretical use cases and practical exercises
- gain expertise in practical network applications

  
**Content:** The course deals with advanced topics in the area of networking:

- Overlay networks for content delivery, e.g., P2P, BitTorrent, CDNs, caching, overlay video streaming
- Distributed Hash Tables (DHT), e.g., Kademlia
- Blockchains
- Crypto currencies and Bitcoin
- Ethereum and smart contracts
- Secure network architectures, e.g., SCION
- Congestion Control, e.g., QUIC and Multipath-QUIC

**Workload:**

- 28h lectures
- 22h theoretical exercises
- 6h practical exercises
- 124h homework (further studies, practical work, preparation for the final exam)

  
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</td><td>Written exam 120 minutes

</td><td>- Lecture 2 SWS
- Exercise 2 SWS

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</td><td>Modul *Computernetze*

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