Emergent Internet Services

Recommended Prerequisites

BsC in Informatics Engineering or similar. 

Teaching Methods

Presentations by the teacher and students in theretical classes; practicall assigments with support in PL classes.

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)

Vítor Manuel Garcia do Nascimento Graveto

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 40.0%
Project: 60.0%

Bibliography

Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach, 6th edition, Jim Kurose, Keith Ross Addison-Wesley, March 2012.

Guide to Voice and Video over IP: For Fixed and Mobile Networks, Lingfen Sun, Is-Haka Mkwawa, Emmanuel Jammeh, Emmanuel Ifeachor , Springer Computer Communications and Networks, 2013.

In addition to the basic references, references including recent papers and standards will be provided.