Level 3 · Ph.D
Ph.D Networking
Networking · Live · v0
Networking from first principles to research depth — protocols, routing, transport, and network-systems design.
- Path type
- Networking
- Requirements
- MSc Networking
- Enrollment
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€9.95
- Deadline
- Next cohort starts 2027-09-06 (AY 2027/28)
- Length
- +1 year · 56 phases
- Language
- English · Español
- Content freshness
- Curriculum updated 2026-08-31 · content rev a697f409
- Cortex Credits (CC)
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280 CC
· 298 CC across all tiers of this programme
What are Cortex Credits? - Syllabus
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View the phase syllabus
- Foundations & tooling
- The virtual lab
- Signaling & encoding
- Framing & Ethernet
- ARP & neighbor discovery
- Switching, broadcast domains, VLANs, STP
- IPv4 addressing & subnetting
- IPv6 addressing, SLAAC, NDP
- IP forwarding (build the software router)
- ICMP, ping, traceroute, path MTU
- NAT/PAT & connection tracking
- Fragmentation & reassembly
- UDP & the socket API
- TCP I — handshake & the state machine
- TCP II — reliability
- TCP III — flow & congestion control
- Sockets, multiplexing & a tiny event loop
- Static routing & forwarding tables
- Distance-vector routing (RIP)
- Link-state (OSPF) & Dijkstra
- BGP, autonomous systems, path selection & policy
- DNS (the Domain Name System)
- DHCP & autoconfiguration
- HTTP/1.1 → HTTP/2 on the wire
- TLS handshake on the wire
- QUIC & HTTP/3
- Latency, throughput & the bandwidth-delay product
- QoS, traffic shaping & AQM
- Load balancing & anycast
- CDNs & edge delivery
- Overlays & tunneling
- SDN & OpenFlow
- eBPF/XDP fast-path packet processing
- Cloud networking
- Firewalls & stateful filtering
- IDS/IPS & traffic analysis
- VPNs & IPsec/WireGuard internals
- Network observability & telemetry
- Network automation
- Capstone
- Hardening, postmortem & "What's Next"
- Portal integration
- Pipes, FIFOs & Unix-domain sockets
- Message queues & semaphores
- Shared memory & record locking
- Condition variables, monitors & local concurrency
- Advanced sockets: socket options, raw sockets & SCTP
- Enrolment prerequisites
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- A verified account and admissions-committee approval.
- Completion of MSc Networking.
What changed
Every release of this programme, newest first.
- v0 Pilot Wave A backfill: v0 pilot baseline
Professor: Vacancy available
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