Network management (10 hours)
1.1. Introduction to Network Management Systems
1.2. The SNMP protocol and MIB II
1.3. Monitoring with RMON and Netflow
1.4. Network Configuration Automation
Network planning (20 hours)
2.1. Network planning context.
2.2. Mathematical tools for network planning. Heuristic algorithms
2.3 Network simulation & capacity estimation
2.4. Traffic engineering (IP and MPLS-TE)
2.5. Reliability in communications networks. Risk analysis.