COURSE UNIT TITLE

: QUALITY OF SERVICE ADVANCEMENTS IN IP NETWORKS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CME 4453 QUALITY OF SERVICE ADVANCEMENTS IN IP NETWORKS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Computer Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR KÖKTEN ULAŞ BIRANT

Offered to

Computer Engineering

Course Objective

The course objective, mainly, is making the students intimate with the most popular techniques and architectures proposed to enhance the performance of, and bring some Quality of service inTO IP networks of today.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Have Understood the paradox between the original design purpose of Internet protocol and Quality of Service (QoS) efforts.
2   Comprehend the trade-off between protocol add-ons or add-on protocols and the solutions they supply.
3   Understand concept of congestion reducing and distrubuted regulation of network utilization by Transport protocols
4   Apprehend the probabilistic modelling of network packet traffic and related mathematical analysis techniques.
5   Be able to note to the long term dependencies resulting from the intention of independent usage of network resources

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction: Outline the course objectives.
2 Review of Network protocols:IP and TCP. Bringing enhancements into IP services with IPv6.
3 Congestion Control: basics: Congestion control and TCP
4 Review of TCP performance
5 Explaining TCP Congestion Control mechanism in detail. Rate control and TCP friendliness.
6 IP-Level Congestion control Explaining most common IP Congestion Control mechanisms.
7 Priority Services in IP-1 Explain standards and objectives about IP concepts like IntServ.''
8 Priority Services in IP-1 Explain standards and objectives about IP concepts like IntServ.''
9 Midterm Exam.
10 Priority Services in IP-2 Explain standards and objectives about IP concepts like DiffServ.
11 Queueing Theory M/M/1 Queue, Little's and P-K formula. Elastic and inelastic traffic types.
12 Queueing Theory and Traffic Analysis: Using Poisson and Modified models estimating parameters.
13 Internet and Ethernet Traffic Analysis. Explaining self-similar nature of Internet/Ethernet traffic.
14 Traffic Analysis-:Using Pareto distributed On-OFF models.

Recomended or Required Reading

W. Stallings, High Speed Networks and Internets. Performance and Quality of Service. Prentice Hall. ISBN 0 13 032221 0
+Lecturers presentation slides.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecturing in interactive class sessions.
Presenting of ppt slides material prepared by the Coordinator.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Interaction during class hours will be added to Attendance for Advantage.

Assessment Criteria

Checking the outcome of knowledge transfer and understanding/interest in the area by evaluating exam. grades, mainly. Results are averaged in whole class level and curved to standard.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

Continous connection with class progress and lecturer. is demanded.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

: kemal@cs.deu.edu.tr, 0232 412 7414, DEU Bilgisayar Mühendisliği-Tınaztepe campus.

Office Hours

For the current semestre: Thursday 8:30-9:30, 13:00-14:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3,5 46
Preparation for midterm exam 1 22 22
Preparation for final exam 1 27 27
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 138

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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