Seminar Communication Networks (Wintersemester 2002/2003)

Lecturer: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Werner Zorn , Dr.-Ing. Thi-Thanh-Mai Hoang

General Information

Weekly Hours: 2
Credits: 3
Graded: yes
Enrolment Deadline: 01.01.1970
Teaching Form:
Enrolment Type: Compulsory Elective Module

Programs

IT-Systems Engineering BA

Description

Supervisors: Mai Hoang, Andreas Willig, Werner Zorn

The seminar on communication networks serves two different purposes:

The topics offer an overview on some aspects of Quality of Service (QoS) in IP networks
The students get some practice in preparing and giving technical / scientific presentations.

Ultimately, students are expected to acquire some deep knowledge about a prescribed technical topic and to communicate this topic in a clear, concise, and overseeable manner to fellow students. To this end each student:

independently collects and evaluates material (from books, journals, WWW), starting from some initial material handed out by the respective supervisor,
has to give a 30 minutes talk and to moderate a following discussion lasting 10 minutes, and
prepares a detailed document (``script') containing the presented information including aspects from the discussion.

The seminar will be held as a block seminar at December 17/18, 2002, each day starting at 10am. The script has to be delivered until January 20, 2003.

Topics

DiffServ
IP DiffServ (Differentiated Services) is a basically stateless approach to enhance todays IP networks with multiple service classes
IntServ
: IP IntServ (Integrated Services) achieves QoS with a stateful scheme (by reserving resources in routers)
MPLS
: MPLS (Multiprotocol label swapping) is a method for fast forwarding of IP flows
IP Multicast
: Different approaches to support group communications in IP networks
Mobile IP
: Mobile IP allows hosts to roam into foreign networks while maintaining connectivity
Voice over IP
: Specific requirements and architectures for transmitting voice data over IP networks
Interplanetary Internet
: TCP/IP communications over *really* long distances
Active and Programmable Networks
: two different approaches for adding new functionality to an existing network
ISO Systems Management Framework
: concepts and architecture for systems management as seen by ISO
Internet Systems Management Framework
: systems management as seen by the IETF

Examination

40% presentation (talk), 40% written script, 20% discussion

Script

Maximum of 20 pages
Give a self-contained overview on your topic.
Do not discuss every detail, but provide pointers to where
Give an extensive bibliography
The script has to be delivered in PDF

Language

The presentation slides must be in english. The presentation itself can be given in english or in german, however, english is preferred.

For the script the english language is preferred, but not required.

Deliverables

Students have to submit the following items besides the oral presentation:

The presentation file (preferrably Microsoft PowerPoint)
A paper copy of the script
The script as PDF file

Dates

Oct. 16, 2002, 15.00: Kickoff-Meeting, assignment of seminar topics, organizational stuff, supervisors hand out initial literature
Nov. 15th, 2002: the students should discuss the structure of their talk/script with the supervisor before this date.
Dec. 9th, 2002: the students have to show their supervisors the final talk slides and a first version of the script before this date. This is mandatory.
Dec. 17/18, 2002, 10am: presentations. Each student has a slot of 40 minutes. The talk lasts 30 minutes, discussion lasts 10 minutes.
Jan 17, 2003: The final version of the script has to be submitted before this date. This version has to take the results of the discussion into account.
Jan 24, 2003: The final grades for the seminar are announced by the supervisors.

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