Advanced Services in Communications

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CENG 577 Advanced Services in Communications

Course Description

The main goal of the course is to unravel the new advanced services that will form the platform for the construction of scalable, reliable, and high performance new generation multimedia-rich mobile and wireless Internet-based applications.

The last several years have seen the phenomenal growth of the Internet and its emergence as the technology of choice for constructing major new services and applications, such as packetized audio and video (multimedia networking), mobile and wireless computing, and pervasive (ubiquitous) computing. In this seminar-style experimental course, we will examine the convergence of traditional voice-centric telecommunications networks and computer networks, and  applications-focused distributed middleware architectures, and the Internet.

The Internet as it is conceptualized today is mainly in terms of network and transport-layer protocols, with a weak model for services beyond connectivity. Traditional telecommunications networks include well-developed service models, but these are strongly tied to telephony. Elements include control via Signal System 7, the distribution of application processing in the Advanced Intelligent Network, the new frameworks for Internet-based core architectures for Third Generation Mobile Networks, and proposals to generalize the existing telephony architecture such as the object-based TINA architecture. Middleware-oriented distributed applications architectures include SOA, RMI, EJB, JINI and CORBA.

Through the readings of technical and survey papers, student presentations, seminar-style discussion, and applied research projects, we will learn the proposed services and architectures. Students will pursue a substantial research project as part of their course grade.

Prerequisites

Lecture Schedule

Lectures

Topics Covered

Lec 1

Introduction: What is this Course About? Technology Trends

Lec 2

Internet Architecture and Advanced Services in Converged Networks: Evaluation of the Internet Architecture, Quick Review of TCP/IP Protocol Stack, Principles of Data Communications, Higher Internet View and New Trends, Business Trends, Implications and Issues

Next Generation Internet Architecture: Network-Layer Enhancements (IPv6, Multicast Routing and Address Allocation), Mobility (mobile IP and other technologies), Internet2, ...

Lec 3

Principles of Voice Communications and Converged Networks: Voice Communication, Convergence of Traditional Voice-Centric Telecommunications Networks and Computer Networks, PSTN and Intelligent Network (IN):  A Telephone-Centric View of Data and Voice Network Convergence

Lec 4-5

Multimedia Networking (Internet Telephony Architecture and Protocols: Voice over IP-VoIP): Multimedia Networking Applications, Streaming Stored Audio and Video, RTSP, Real-Time Multimedia: Internet Phone study, Protocols for Real-Time Interactive Applications: RTP, RTCP, SIP, Distributing Multimedia: Content Distribution Networks (CDNs), Beyond Best Effort, Scheduling and Policing Mechanisms, Integrated Services and Differentiated Services, RSVP, Java Multimedia Framework (JMF)

Multimedia Networking: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP): What is SIP?, Protocols for IP Telephony, Architecture of SIP, SIP Services, Some Issues

Lec 6

Middleware: Architectural Model and Software Layers, Some Definitions for Middleware, Middleware Layers, Traditional Middleware, RMI as Object Oriented Traditional Middleware, RFC 2768, New Requirements and Developments in Middleware

Lec 7

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Computing (SOC): Introduction: Current View (Issues with Existing Models), Introduction to SOA, SOA with Web Services, Technologies Related to Web Services, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Enabling Technologies, Current Trends and Research Challenges, Web Services Practice in .NET

Lec 8

Peer-to-Peer Networking: Definitions, Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing, Main Characteristics and Advantages, Classifications of P2P Applications, P2P Content Distribution (P2P Applications, P2P Content Publishing and Storage Systems, P2P Infrastructures), P2P Analysis Framework, P2P Distributed Object Location and Routing, Content Caching, Replication and Migration, Security, Provisions and Anonymity and Deniability, Resource Management Capabilities, Open Research Topics, JXTA (Java's peer-to-peer networking technology)

Lec 9

Pervasive Computing: Principles of Pervasive Computing, Evolution and Related Fields, Problem Space, Example Projects, Other Scenarios, Location-aware (-based) services (LBS), Wireless Sensor Networks

Paper Readings


   Multimedia Networking

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H. Schulzrinne, "Internet Telephony", Practical Handbook of Internet Computing, 2004 CRC Press LLC.

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B. Li, M. Hamdi, D. Jiang, Xi-Ren Cao, Y. T. Hou, "QoS-Enabled Voice Support in the Next-Generation Internet: Issues, Existing Approaches and Challenges", IEEE Communications Magazine, pp. 54-61, April 2000.


   Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Computing (SOC)

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M. P. Papazoglou, "Web Services Technologies and Standards", ACM Computing Surveys, 2006.

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Papazoglou, M.P. and W.J. van den Heuvel, Service-Oriented Design and Development Methodology", Int'l Journal of Web Engineering and Technology (IJWET), 2006.

    Optional Readings

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M. P. Papazoglou, W. J. van den Heuvel, "Service Oriented Architectures: Approaches, Technologies and Research Issues", The VLDB Journal (2005).

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B. Yurday, H. Gümüşkaya, "A Service Oriented Reflective Wireless Middleware", ICSOC 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer-Verlag, vol. 4294, pp. 545 – 556, 2006.
 

   Peer-to-Peer Networking

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Stephanos Androutsellis-Theotokis and Diomidis Spinellis, "A Survey of Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution Technologies", ACM Computing Surveys, 36(4):335–371, December 2004.

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Detlef Schoder and Kai Fischbach, "Core Concepts in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Networking", P2P Computing: The Evolution of a Disruptive Technology, Idea Group Inc, Hershey, 2005.


   Pervasive Computing

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M. Satyanarayanan, "Pervasive Computing: Vision and Challenges", IEEE Personal Communication, Aug. 2001, pp. 10-17.

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D. Saha, A. Mukherjee, "Pervasive Computing: A Paradigm for the 21st Century", IEEE Computer, pp. 25-31, March 2003.

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A. LaMarca, et.al,  "Place Lab: Device Positioning Using Radio Beacons in the Wild", Proceedings of Pervasive 2005, Munich, Germany.

  Optional Reading

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J. Hightower, A. LaMarca, I. Smith, "Practical Lessons from Place Lab", IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 5, no. 3, 2006.

Textbooks

Grading

30 % : Presentation, ADC (Attendance, Discussion and Contribution)  
4
0 % : Project
30 % : Final Exam (a comprehensive exam covering all topics at the end of the course)

   

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