In the scope of the BSc Course on Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra 

• Communication Protocols - Communication protocols: issues and trends. Internet routing protocols: RIP, OSPF, BGP, other. Transport protocols: TCP, UDP, RTP/RTCP, SCTP, MPTCP, QUIC, other. Quality of Service. Software-Defined Networks. Network Function Virtualization. Conclusion: challenges and perspectives.

In the scope of the MSc Course on Informatics Security of the University of Coimbra

• Cryptography - Cryptography fundamentals. Algorithms for symmetric and asymmetric cryptography. Skills on cyber security assessment and management, security risk analysis, security risk assessment and management at organization and system level. Practical application of the theoretical knowledge on security assessment and management, competences in analysis and synthesis, critical reasoning, and self-learning.

For more information on these courses please go to the Department of Informatics Engineering (for some of them, the available information may be in Portuguese only).