Unit VIRTUAL NETWORKS AND CLOUD COMPUTING
- Course
- Computer engineering and robotics
- Study-unit Code
- 70A00054
- Curriculum
- Robotics
- Teacher
- Gianluca Reali
- Teachers
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- Gianluca Reali
- Hours
- 72 ore - Gianluca Reali
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- ING-INF/03
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- 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