ENCS691K - FALL 2021
CLOUD NETWORKING AND SERVICE PROVISIONING (IN-PERSON)

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: TBD

Time:
Thursday, 8h45 – 12h15

Room:
MB 2.285 SGW

Objective
The course aims at given students a good understanding of cloud computing fundamentals and a good grasp of the networking and service provisioning aspects.

Topics

Part I: Cloud Computing Basics

· Overview

· Technologies on which cloud computing relies (e.g. SOA, Hypervisor virtualization, container virtualization)

· Platform as a Service and Software as a Service

· Infrastructure as a Service

Part II: Cloud Layers

· Infrastructure as a Service

· Platform as a Service

Part III: More recent developments

· Edge Computing

· Network Function Virtualization

Prerequisites

· Networking basics

Evaluation scheme

There will be a mid-term exam, a final exam and a semester long project. The quizzes are closed book. The grading scheme:

· Mid-term: 30 % (Scheduled for week #7 – October 21)

· Final exam 30 % (Scheduled for week #13 – December 2)

· Semester long project: 40% (Report and demos scheduled for Week #14 – December 7)

Tentative schedule and lecture notes

Weeks	TOPICS / LECTURES NOTES	EVENTS
Week #1 September 9	Overview of Cloud Computing
Week #2 September 16	Overview of Cloud Computing	Standard project specification available
Week #3 September 23	The technologies on which cloud computing relies - Virtualization
Week #4 September 30	The technologies on which cloud computing relies - Virtualization
Week #5 October 7	Infrastructure as a Service	Deadline for personalized project specification submission
Week #6 October 14	Infrastructure as a Service
Week #7 October 21	Mid-term exam
Week # 8 October 28	The technologies on which cloud computing relies - SOA
Week 9 November 4	The technologies on which cloud computing relies - SOA
Week #10 November 11	Platform as a Service
Week 11 November 18	Edge computing
Week 12 November 25	Network Function Virtualization
Week 13 December 2	Final exam

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/