ELEC 6861 - FALL 2017
HIGHER LAYER TELECOMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS

News

Outline

Tentative schedule and lecture notes

Academic code of conduct, student responsibilities and student resources

News

Outline

Logistics


Roch H. Glitho
Office: EV007-637, Tel: 1-514-8482424 ext. 5846, Email: Glitho@ciise.concordia.ca
URL: http://www.ece.concordia.ca/~glitho/
Office hours: Thursday: 3 pm – 5 pm

Time:
Monday, 2:45 pm – 5:30 pm

Room
FG-B070

Objective
The course aims at given students a good grasp of the concepts, rules and principles related to the higher layer telecommunication protocols. Higher layer protocols are defined as the protocols above the IP layer. 

Topics

Part II: Background information

· Layered protocol architectures

· Cross layered protocol architectures

Part II: Selected application layer protocol architectures

· Support Infrastructure for application layer: Domain Name System (DNS) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Overlays

· Multimedia networking

· World Wide Web (WWW)

· Electronic Mail (E-Mail)

Part III: Transport layer protocols

· TCP/UDP Basics and Socket Programming

· Wireless Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

· An overview of the other transport layer protocols (e.g. Data Congestion Control Protocol – DCCP, Stream Control Transmission Protocol – SCTP, Real Time Transport Protocol – RTP)

Prerequisites

1. ELEC 6851: Introduction to Telecommunication Networks

2. A very good programming knowledge

Evaluation scheme

There will be two quizzes and a semester long project. The quizzes are closed book. The grading scheme is as follows.

· Quiz #1: 30 % (Scheduled for week #7 – October 16)

· Quiz #2: 30 % (Scheduled for week #13 – November 27)

· Semester long project: 40% (Report and demos scheduled for Week #14)

Tentative schedule and lecture notes

Weeks	TOPICS / LECTURES NOTES	EVENTS
Week #1 - September 4		No lecture University closed on Monday, September 4 (Labor day)
Week #2 - September 11	Layered protocol architectures Cross layered protocol architectures - Domain Name System (DNS)	Semester long project
Week #3 - September  18	Support Infrastructure for Application Layer: - Peer to peer Overlays - World Wide Web Protocols	Standard project specification available
Week #4 - September 25	Multimedia Sessions
Week #5 - October 2	On the standard project Advanced conferencing
Week #6 - October 9		No lecture Thanksgiving – University closed
Week #7 - October 16		Quiz 1
Week # 8 - October 23	Advanced conferencing
Week 9  - October 30	Advanced conferencing Electronic Mail Protocols
Week #10 - November 6	The other Transport Protocols
Week 11 - November 13	The other Transport Protocols On Wireless TCP
Week 12 - November 20	Recent Developments in Application Layer
Weeks 13 - November 27		Quiz #2
Week #14 - December 11 -	Project report + demos

Academic Code of Conduct, Student responsibilities and Student resources

Academic Code of Conduct

Academic Integrity

Any form of cheating, plagiarism, personation, falsification of a document as well as any other form of dishonest behaviour related to the obtention of academic gain or the avoidance of evaluative exercises committed by a student is an academic offence under the Academic Code of Conduct and may lead to severe penalties up to and including suspension and expulsion.

As examples only, you are not permitted to:

• Copy from anywhere without indicating where it came from
• Let another student copy your work and then submit it as his/her own
• Hand in the same assignment in more than one class
• Have unauthorized material or devices in an exam. Note that you do not have to be caught using them – just having them is an offence
• Copy from someone’s else exam
• Communicate with another student during an exam
• Add or remove pages from an examination booklet or take the booklet out of an exam room
• Acquire exam or assignment answers or questions
• Write an exam for someone else or have someone write an exam for you
• Submit false documents such as medical notes or student records
• Falsify data or research results

You are subject to the Academic Code of Conduct. Take the time to learn more at http://provost.concordia.ca/academicintegrity/

Student’s Responsibilities

· Students are expected to attend every class. Some material may only be covered in class and not made available on the course website. Students are expected to read the assigned material and to actively participate in class discussions.

· Students are expected to be respectful of other people’s opinions and to express their own views in a calm and reasonable way. Disruptive behaviour will not be tolerated.

· Students are expected to be familiar with the Code of Rights and Responsibilities: http://rights.concordia.ca

· If you cannot attend class for any reason, unforeseen or not, you are to come and talk or write to me as soon as possible.

9. Student Services

· Concordia Counselling and Development offers career services, psychological services, student learning services, etc.

http://cdev.concordia.ca

· The Concordia Library Citation and Cycle Guides: http://library.concordia.ca/help/howto/citations.html

· Advocacy and Support Services:

http://supportservices.concordia.ca

· Student Transition Centre:

http://stc.concordia.ca

· New Student Program:

http://newstudent.concordia.ca

· Office for Students with Disabilities:

http://supportservices.concordia.ca/disabilities/

· The Academic Integrity Website:

http://provost.concordia.ca/academicintegrity/