IKT436 Advanced Internet Services and Protocols (Autumn 2022)

ECTS Credits:: 7.5
Responsible department:: Faculty of Engineering and Science
Course Leader:: Lei Jiao
Lecture Semester:: Autumn
Teaching language:: English
Duration:: ½ year

Schedule (TP) Reading list (Leganto)

The course is connected to the following study programs

Cyber Security, Master’s Programme
Artificial Intelligence and The Internet of Things, Master's Programme
Artificial Intelligence, 5-year master programme

Teaching language

English

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course, the students should

- have the knowledge of Internet telephoning protocols and services

- have knowledge of mobility in the Internet and the related protocols

- understand the concept of QoS and QoE, and its supporting strategies

- understand the static state analysis of Markov chain models

- be able to analyze and evaluate basic queuing strategies in computer networks

- understand the performance evaluation process of an Internet protocol by simulations or by mathematics modelling

- understand the concept of SDN and NFV.

Review of TCP/IPv4 services, protocols and routing. IPv6 basics, IPv6 essential functions and services, and mobile IPv6. Internet telephony and protocols. Multiprotocol label switching. Network management and software defined network, Quality of Service, Quality of Experience. Queuing. Performance evaluations (via Markov chain analysis and network simulations).

Teaching and learning methods

Lectures, seminars, group assignments, supervised written assignments and self-study.

The workload for the average student is approximately 200 hours.

Examination requirements

Compulsory assignments must be approved in order to take the examination. An overview of the compulsory assignments will be given at the start of the semester.

Examinations

Written examination, 4 hours. Graded assessment.

Student evaluation

The person responsible for the course decides, in cooperation with student representative, the form of student evaluation and whether the course is to have a midway or end of course evaluation in accordance with the quality system for education, chapter 4.1.

Offered as a free-standing course

Yes. Subject to availability or capacity.

Admission Requirement if given as a free-standing course

Admission requirements for the course are the same as for the master’s programme in ICT, the Communication Technologies profile.

Reduction of Credits

This course’s contents overlap with the following courses. A reduction of credits will occur if one of these courses is taken in addition:

Course	Reduction of Credits
IKT421 – Advanced Internet Services and Protocols.	5
IKT417 – Internet Protocols.	5

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