Unit VIRTUAL NETWORKS AND CLOUD COMPUTING

Course

Computer engineering and robotics

Study-unit Code

70A00054

Curriculum

In all curricula

Teacher

Gianluca Reali

Teachers

Gianluca Reali

Hours

72 ore - Gianluca Reali

CFU

Course Regulation

Coorte 2021

Offered

2022/23

Learning activities

Affine/integrativa

Area

Attività formative affini o integrative

Academic discipline

ING-INF/03

Type of study-unit

Obbligatorio (Required)

Type of learning activities

Attività formativa monodisciplinare

Language of instruction

Italian

Contents

This class provides advanced knowlege about the implementation of Big Data distributed computing systems, implemented in cloud networks. In addition, this courde includes cloud and datacenter management through cutting edge netork protocols, based on virtualization.

Reference texts

ILetha Hughes Etzkorn: "ntroduction to Middleware: Web Services, Object Components, and Cloud Computing", Chapman and Hall/CRC.

Lecture notes made available by the lecturer

Educational objectives

This class aims to give students the expertise for designing advanced netoworks and cloud computing systems.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of IP networking.

Teaching methods

Lectures and computer-based experiments

Other information

Open-source software platforms are used.

Learning verification modality

Project work and oral exam

Extended program

Introduction and review of IP networking

Lecture1:
Virtualization

Lecture 2: Software Defined Netowrking;

Lecture 3: Introduction to Cloud Computing
• IaaS, PaaS, SaaS: what are they and how to choose among them
• Cloud Computing Reference Architecture

Lecture 4: cloud providers
• Basic of virtualization technologies
• OpenStack
• Practical examples

Lecture 5: Virtual Networks
• VxLAN
• Overlay Netoworks

Lecture 6: hybrid clouds
• Public, dedicated, hosted, private clouds
• hybrid scenarios (on prem-on cloud, cross clouds, legacy apps & cloud apps, micro cloud &
cloud brokerage)
• Practical examples