Level 3 · Ph.D

Advanced Networking

Ph.D syllabus · 56 phases · +1 year

Every unit this programme teaches, in the order it is taught. Headlines only — the material itself opens once you are enrolled.

Dates, price and prerequisites

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