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Computer Network Architectures and Multimedia

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Duration :30h Th, 30h Pr
Credits/ECTS :
4th year of the 5 year degree in civil engineering in computer sciences5,5
2nd "licence" in computer6
Holder(s) :Guy Leduc
Course contents :
  • ATM networks: basic concepts.
  • Packet switching: switch and router architectures.
  • Scheduling in switches and routers: connections with and without quality of service guarantees.
  • Multicast routing.
  • Flow and congestion control, traffic shaping and policing, flow specification.
  • New Internet architectures: integrated and differentiated services.
  • Marriage of IP and ATM.
  • Introduction to traffic engineering, MPLS.
  • Multimedia: Audio and video compression (JPEG, MPEG), audio and video streaming (RTSP), IP telephony (SIP), content distribution networks (CDN), transport protocols RTP/RTCP, video multicasting, RLM.
  • Seminar on IP telephony by Eric Vyncke from CISCO Systems.
  • Seminar on the European GEANT network by Nicolas Simar from DANTE.
Course objective : AT the end of the course students will understand well more advanced concepts of network architectures and protocols able to support multimedia applications. In particular, the course covers ATM and MPLS networks, and IP new generation protocols to provide better quality of service.
Prerequisites : INFO-010: Introduction to computer networks
Workshops : Two projects based on the network simulator (ns) and one project consisting of configuring QoS-specific mechanisms of a router.
Organization : First term (from mid-September to mid December), schedule unknown.
Written notes : Reference books:
  • S. Keshav. An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking: ATM Networks, the Internet and the Telephone Network. Addison-Wesley, 1997 (ISBN 0-201-63442-2)
  • Andrew S. Tanenbaum. Computer Networks (Fourth Edition). Prentice-Hall, 2003 (ISBN 0-13-038488-7)
Assessment : The evaluation is twofold: the three projects and an oral exam. At the oral exam the student has to expose clearly and in a synthetical way one part of the course, and prove his/her in-depth understanding by answering questions.
Contacts : Teacher: Guy Leduc, Guy.Leduc@ulg.ac.be
Secretariat: Charline De Baets, ledent@montefiore.ulg.ac.be
Teaching assistants:
- Jean Lepropre, lepropre@run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be,
- Sandrine Calomme, calomme@run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be,
- Simon Balon, balon@run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be
Remarks : Given that the INFO-010 course is a prerequisite and moves to the second term, this course cannot be taken by students from 2LINF and 2ELIN in 2006-2007. It is therefore very likely that it will not be organized this year.




ULg : Students and Studies Administration - Academic Affairs
Contact : Monique Marcourt, direction A.E.E.
Date of data : 18/05/2007
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