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Level 3 · Ph.D

Ph.D Advanced Networking

Networking · Live · v0

Doctoral networking — transport and routing research, datacentre and Internet-scale systems, and network measurement.

Path type

Networking

Requirements

MSc Advanced Networking

Enrollment

€19.95

Deadline

Next cohort starts 2027-09-06 (AY 2027/28)

Length

+1 year · 56 phases

Language

English · Español

Content freshness

Curriculum updated 2026-08-23 · content rev 54b9430e

Cortex Credits (CC)

280 CC
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Syllabus

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0. Foundations, tooling & the researcher's mindset
1. The networking research method
2. The extended testbed
3. Measurement & statistics for networks
4. Network modeling & queueing theory
5. Discrete-event network simulation
6. TCP internals revisited rigorously
7. Congestion control theory
8. Loss-based congestion control
9. Model-based & rate-based CC: BBR
10. Delay-based, ECN & scalable CC
11. Active queue management & fairness, deep
12. QUIC transport internals
13. Multipath & modern transport
14. Routing theory & correctness
15. Link-state routing at scale
16. BGP internals & policy, rigorous
17. BGP dynamics & pathologies
18. Interdomain security: RPKI & route leaks
19. Traffic engineering & Segment Routing
20. Centralized control & the PCE
21. Routing & network verification
22. The data-plane abstraction
23. P4 & programmable switches
24. In-network computing & telemetry
25. eBPF foundations: the in-kernel VM, verifier & maps
26. eBPF datapath & attach points: XDP, TC & sockets
27. eBPF observability & security: tooling, BPF-LSM & hardening
28. Kernel-bypass networking
29. NIC offloads & RDMA
30. Zero-copy & high-performance host stacks
31. Performance measurement & tuning
32. Datacenter topologies
33. Datacenter transport & load balancing
34. Network virtualization & overlays, deep
35. Cloud networking architecture
36. Container & service networking
37. Service mesh & the L7 data plane
38. Microsegmentation & zero-trust networking
39. Multi-tenant isolation & QoS
40. Adversarial networking
41. DDoS & network resilience
42. TLS 1.3 & encrypted transport, deep
43. Traffic analysis & privacy
44. Secure routing & DNS
45. Network intrusion detection, advanced
46. Formal methods for networks
47. Verified & synthesized networking
48. Internet topology & economics
49. Internet measurement at scale
50. Content delivery & the edge, deep
51. Time-sensitive & deterministic networking
52. Wireless & mobile transport
53. Sustainable & future Internet
54. Real-world connectivity engineering & the diagnostic method
55. Cellular access internals, eSIM & mobile IoT

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Enrolment prerequisites

• A verified account and admissions-committee approval.
• Completion of MSc Advanced Networking.