Emergent Internet Services

Recommended Prerequisites

BsC in Informatics Engineering or similar.

Teaching Methods

Presentations by the teacher and students in theretical classes; practicall assigments and lab classes by students in PLs.

Learning Outcomes

The objectives of this course are the knowledge about telematics applications fundamentals, Internet aplications and emerging Internet services. The paradigms, technologies and protocols for the support of multimedia applications in the Internet will also be addressed. The students should develop competencies in the critical analysis and exposition of existing solutions and future challenges in the areas oftelematics applications.

The application of the knowledge will include the development of telematics applications, equipment configuration and multimedia networks project.

Self-learning should include the study, understanding, specification and development of new services, communication system project for the new services and the follow-up of new challenges and paradigms.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Protocols for multimedia support

2. Web applications and services

3. Voice over Internet (VoIP)

4. Video over Internet (VCoIP, IPTV, VoD, nPlay)

5. Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE)

6. Peer-to-peer (P2P) applications

7. Content applications and networking

8. Cloud computing services and applications

9. New emerging telematics applications

10. Performance evaluation.

Head Lecturer(s)

Edmundo Heitor da Silva Monteiro

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 25.0%
Synthesis work: 25.0%
Research work: 50.0%

Bibliography

Lista de artigos recentes e apresentações serão fornecidas aos alunos após cada módulo do curso | List of recent papers and presentations will be provided to the students after each course module