Advanced Topics in Communications

Recommended Prerequisites

Communication Protocols, Fundamentals of Communication Systems, Network Modelling and Performance, Advanced Topics in Communications.

Teaching Methods

NA

Learning Outcomes

The Internet is being subject to intense stress and change. On one side, new requirements and applications are developed every day, putting current technologies under strain. On the other, recent research efforts address challenging issues and promise considerable change in the years to come. In this scenario, several main areas arise as extremely important, requiring attention now and in the foreseeable future: mobility, routing, signaling, sensor networks, management and, overall, quality of service and quality of experience. These areas will determine how the Internet will respond to the requirements of emerging and future applications, and will shape the solutions for ubiquitous and seamless connectivity for both users and networks. They will also largely influence the way the network runs, evolves and adapts to the operational environment, in a more or less autonomic way. This course will provide an informed and state-of-the-art view on each of these areas.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1 - Introduction. 2 - Motivations and challenges for future networking. 3 - Mobility fundamentals. 4 - User and network mobility. 5 - Convergence and interoperability of dynamic heterogeneous fixed and mobile network technologies. 6 – Resillience, trustworthy and energy-efficient Internet architectures. 7 – Network management and operation frameworks. 8 – Novel technologies and architectures for critical infrastructures. 9 – Cloud computing infrastrucutres. 10 – Internet of Things. 11 – Security, privacy and trust.

Head Lecturer(s)

Fernando Pedro Lopes Boavida Fernandes

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Presentation of a paper : 100.0%

Bibliography

- J. Schiller, Mobile Communications, Addison Wesley, 2003 (2nd ed.).
- P. Nicopolitidis, M. S. Obaidat, G. I. Papadimitriou, A. S. Pomportsis, Wireless Networks, Wiley, 2003.
- Sudhir Dixit, Ramjee Prasad (editors), Wireless IP and Building the Mobile Internet, Artech House, 2003.
- K. D. Wong, Wireless Internet Telecommunications, Artech House, 2005.
- C.S. Raghavendra et al. (Ed.), Wireless Sensor Networks, Kluwer, 2004.
- J. Kurose, K. Ross, Computer Networking – A Top-Down Approach, 4th ed., Addison-Wesley, 2008.
- W. Stallings, High-Speed Networks and Internets – Performance and Quality of Service, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 2002
- P. Van Mieghem, F. Kuipers, T. Korkmaz, M. Krunz, M. Curado, E. Monteiro, X. Masip-Bruin, J. Sole-Pareta, J. Domingo-Pascal,  “Quality of Service Routing”, Chapter 3, in Quality of Future Internet Services, M. Smirnoff et al (Eds.)", LNCS, Vol. 2856, Springer, 2003.

For each topic in the course, a list of additional research papers will be provided.