Opinto-opas 2005-2006

TLT-2656 SPECIAL COURSE ON NETWORKING, 3-6 cr
SPECIAL COURSE ON NETWORKING

Person responsible
Yevgeni Koucheryavy

Lecturers
Name: Yevgeni Koucheryavy,
E-mail: yk@cs.tut.fi,
Tel.:3 3115 3075,
Room: TH206
Name: Dmitri Moltchanov,
E-mail: moltchan@cs.tut.fi
Tel.: 040 0785497
Room: TH211

Lecture room and time
Per IV,V: Monday 16 - 18, TB219

Implementation rounds
Implementation 1
  Period 1 Period 2 Period 3 Period 4 Period 5 Summer Language of instruction
Lecture - - - 2 h/week - - In English only
Seminar - - - - 2 h/week - In English only
Exam   In English only
(Academic Calender 2005-2006)

Objectives
Advanced studies about a selected topic in the area of next-generation networking. Content varies in different implementation rounds. Pay attention to the table of contents.

Contents
Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Next Generation Networks and Systems; Evolution of telecommunication networks;
Prerequisites; Foreseen architecture + All-IP; Services-driven and architecture-driven; Wireless peculiarities, vertical/horizontal handovers Always Best Connected strategy; QoS issues. 		      
2. G Networks; Evolution from 2/2.5G to 3G (including GPRS, EDGE); Architectures (3GPP, 3GPP2, ITU, ETSI, etc.); UMTS; CDMA, WCDMA, CDMA2000       
3. Body and personal area wireless networks; Overview of Bluetooth; Technical description of solutions offered by Bluetooth; ZigBee; HomeRF; Infrared.       
4. Wireless local area networks (WLAN) technical issues and design goals; Standardization of IEEE 802.11; Services and technical descritption of IEEE 802.11 WLAN; HIPERLAN/1 and HIPERLAN/2; WLAN Internet.       
5. Wide/Metropolitan Area Networks: Spectrum issues; WiMAX: what is, strategy, standards, ongoing work; IEEE 802.16, ETSI HIPERMAN, HIPERACCESS; IEEE 802.20; Throughput, scalability and QoS; Interoperability; Ad hoc networks: History of ad-hoc networks; Cellular and ad-hoc networks; Applications of ad-hoc wireless networks; Challenges in ad-hoc wireless networks; Wireless ad hoc Internet.       

Requirements for completing the course
attendance at the seminars, seminar presentation, exam

Assessment criteria

  • Used assessment scale is numeric (1-5)

    • Prerequisites
    Number Name Credits M/R
    TLT-2100 Basic course on networking 5 Mandatory
    TLT-2300 Communications Protocols 5 Recommendable
    TLT-2600 Advanced course on networking 4 Recommendable

    Other comments

  • Partial passing of course must be in connection with the same round of implementation.
  • The course is suitable for postgraduate studies.

    • Correspondence of content
    8304701 Special course on networking

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    Last modified 08.02.2005
    Modified byJarmo Harju