CE709-7-AU-CO:
Programmable Networks and Services
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2023/24
Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (School of)
Colchester Campus
Autumn
Postgraduate: Level 7
Inactive
Thursday 05 October 2023
Friday 15 December 2023
15
24 July 2023
Requisites for this module
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Digital Convergence is the bringing together of communications, information, media and transactions from multiple service providers, across multiple network infrastructures and delivery to any device. This should be done in a way that offers a consistent service experience regardless of a user's location.
This module will begin with the definition and description of converged networks and services and identify current and emerging services and network architectures. The introduction will also include an overview of the key next-generation network architectures that are being deployed today.
In order to understand the design of any network, it is important to understand the service characteristics in terms of customer usage patterns and traffic behaviour; these fundamentally determine the desired Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and ultimately the network and service architectures. Ensuring satisfactory user experience for multiple services will be addressed in detail by means of various Quality-of-Service (QoS) mechanisms.
When a user is mobile and traversing multiple access network technologies and administrative domains, ensuring a seamless service is a demanding task that requires both the convergence of different types of wireless networks and the convergence of fixed and mobile networks.
An overview of the problems and proposed solutions will be described from the perspective of a wireless Internet Service Provider (ISP) and a cellular mobile operator. The course will conclude with a clean-slate future Internet architecture called Information Centric Networking (ICN) that can go beyond the current IP networks.
The aim of this module is to understand the design of any network and the service characteristics in terms of customer usage patterns and traffic behaviour, describing the service level agreements (SLAs) to ensure satisfactory user experience.
On completion of the course, the student is expected to be able to:
1. Understand and describe a converged network architecture and its implications.
2. Define a network specification for converged services (e.g. voice, video and data).
3. Understand the design process of a converged network.
4. Describe the methods of mobility support in heterogeneous access networks.
5. Discuss methods of implementing QoS strategies and service management.
6. Discuss the difference between information-centric networks and IP-based networks.
Outline Syllabus
1. Converged IP network architectures, requirements and definitions, issues and options for deployment, next generation fixed and mobile network technologies.
2. Taxonomy of services, VoIP, VoD, IPTV, web services, P2P, streaming media, fixed mobile convergence (FMC) methodologies.
3. Mobile IP services, types of mobility support and session continuity solutions.
4. Converged network and service management solutions including information centric networking.
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Exam |
Main exam: In-Person, Open Book (Restricted), 120 minutes during Early Exams
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| Exam |
Reassessment Main exam: In-Person, Open Book (Restricted), 120 minutes during September (Reassessment Period)
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Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
School Office, e-mail csee-schooloffice (non-Essex users should add @essex.ac.uk to create full e-mail address), Telephone 01206 872770.
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Dr Anthony Olufemi Tesimi Adeyemi-Ejeye
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
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