ELEC 6861 - FALL 2009
HIGHER LAYER TELECOMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS

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Tentative schedule and lecture notes

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Instructor
Roch H. Glitho
Office: EV007-649, Tel: 1-514-8482424 ext. 5846, Email: Glitho@ciise.concordia.ca
URL: http://www.ece.concordia.ca/~glitho/
Office hours: Monday: 3 pm – 5 pm

Time:
Monday, 17h45 - 20h15

Room
H.439

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 I: Background information

· Layered protocol architectures

· Cross layered protocol architectures

· The IP layer (IPv4/IPv6, migration strategies, mobile IP, OSPF, BGP)

Part II: 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)

Part III: Selected application layer protocol architectures

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

· Electronic Mail (E-Mail) and World Wide Web (WWW)

· Signaling for multiparty sessions

· Network management

Prerequisites

1. ELEC 6851: Introduction to Telecommunication Networks

2. A very good programming knowledge (Java, C++ or C)

References

Part I

· A. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, Fourth Edition, Prentice Hall, 2003 (Introduction and Chapter 5)

· S. Shakkottai, Th Rappaport and P. Karlsson, Cross Layer Design for Wireless Networks, IEEE Communications Magazine, October 2003, pp 74 – pp 80

·  V. Strivasta and M. Montani, Cross Layer Design: A Survey and The Road Ahead, IEEE Communications Magazine, December 2005, Vol. 43, Issue 12, pp. 112 – 119

· V. Kawadia and P.R. Kumar, A Cautionary Perspective on Cross Layer Design, IEEE Wireless Communications, February 2005, Vol. 12, Issue 1, pp. 3 - 11

· R. Winter and al, Cross-layer Feedback Architecture for Mobile Device Protocol Stack, IEEE Communications Magazine, January 2006, Vol. 44, Issue 1, pp. 85 – 92

· M. Tatipamula and P. Gorssetete, IPv6 Integration and Coexistence Strategies for Next Generation Networks, IEEE Communications Magazine, January 2004

· A. Salkintzis, editor, Mobile Internet – Enabling Technologies and Services, Chapter 5,CRC Press 2004

Part II

· A. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, Fourth Edition, Prentice Hall, 2003 (Chapter 6)

· K. Pentikousis, TCP in Wired-Cum-Wireless Environments, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Vol.3, No4, Fourth Quarter 2000

· K.-C Leung and V. O. Li, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) in Wireless Networks: Issues, Approaches and Challenges, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Fourth Quarter 2006

· Y-C Lai, DCCP: Transport Protocol with Congestion Control and Unreliability, IEEE Internet Computing, September – October 2008, Vol. 12, Issue 5. pp. 78 – 83

· A.L. Caro et al., SCTP : A Proposed Standard for Robust Internet Data Transfer, IEEE Computer, November 2003

· S. Fu and M. Atiquzzaman, State of the Art in Research, Products and Technical Challenges, IEEE Communications Magazine, April 2004, Vol. 42, Issue 4, pp. 64 – 76

· P. Natarajan et al., SCTP: What, Why and How, IEEE Internet Computing, September/October 2009

Part III

· A. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, Fourth Edition, Prentice Hall, 2003 (Chapters 7 and 8)

· P.V. Mockapetris and K.J. Dunlap, Development of the Domain Name System (DNS), ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review 1995

· P.V. Mouckapetris, RFC 1034 and RFC 1035, November 1987

· V. Ramasubramanian and E. G. Sirer, The Design and Implementation of a Next Generation Name Service for the Internet, SIGCOMM’04

· E.K. Lua et al., A Survey and Comparison of Peer to Peer Overlay Networks, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, March 2004

· I. Stoica et al., Chord: A scalable Peer to Peer Look Up Protocol for Internet Applications, IEEE/ACM Transactions On Networking, 2003

· I. Clarke et al., Protecting Free Expression On-Line with Freenet, IEEE Internet Computing, January/February 2002

· S. Baset and H. Schulzrinne, An Analysis of the Skype Peer to Peer Internet Telephony Protocol, IEEE Infocom 2006

· L. Gong, JXTA: A Network Programming Environment, IEEE Internet Computing, 2001

· A. R. Modarressi and S. Mohan, guest editors, Advanced Signaling and Control in Next Generation Networks, Special issue, IEEE Communications Magazine, October 2000, Vol.38, No10

· Y Yemini, The OSI Network Management Model, IEEE Communications Magazine, May 1993, Vol. 31, Issue 5, pp 20-29

· W. Stallings, SNMPv3: A Security Enhancement to SNMP, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Vol. 1, No. 1, Fourth Quarter 2008

· A. Pras and al., Key Research Challenges in Network Management, IEEE Communications Magazine, October 2007, Vol. 45, Issue 10, pp. 104 – 110

· B. Jennings, Towards Autonomic Management of Communications Networks, Communications Magazine, October 2007, Vol. 45, Issue 10, pp. 112 – 121

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 26)

· Quiz #2: 30% (Scheduled for week #14 – December 7)

· Semester long project: 40% (Report and demos scheduled for Week #14 – December 10)

Tentative schedule and lecture notes

Weeks	TOPICS / LECTURES NOTES	EVENTS
Week #1 (September 7 - 11)		No lecture University closed on Monday, September 7 (Labor day)
Week #2 (September 14 - 18)	Layered protocol architectures Cross layered protocol architectures
Week #3 (September  21-25)	No lecture	Lecturer out of town
Week #4 (September 28 – October 2 )	Network layer
Week #5 (October 5 - 9)	Addendum to network layer TCP/UDP Basics and Socket Programming · Term long project · UDP/TCP Basics · Socket Programming · More on Socket Programming	Lecture given by: Dr. F. Belqasmi, Ericsson Dr C. Fu, Ericsson
Week #6 (October 12 - 16)		No lecture University closed on October 12 (Thanksgivings)
Week #7 October 19 - 23)	Wireless Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) An overview of the other transport layer protocols (e.g. DCCP, SCTP, RTP)
Week 8 (October 26- 30)	Quiz #1	No lecture (Quiz #1)
Week 9  (November 2 - 6)	Support Infrastructure for Application Layer: - Domain Name System (DNS) - Peer to peer Overlays
Week #10 (November 9 - 13)	Electronic Mail (E-Mail) Protocols Comments on quiz1 results	Quiz#1 corrections
Week 11 (November 16 - 20)	Protocols for multimedia multiparty sessions – Part I	Lecture given by: Dr. F. Belqasmi, Ericsson Dr C. Fu, Ericsson
Week 12 (November 24 - 28)	· IMAP (consult slides on Electronic Mail Protocols) · Protocols for multimedia multiparty sessions – Part II
Weeks 13 (November 30  - December 4)	· Protocols for multimedia multiparty sessions – Part I · Protocols for multimedia multiparty sessions – Part II See slides from previous lectures	Course evaluation
Week #14 (December 7 - 11)	Quiz 2 Project report + demos	No lecture

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