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INSE 7110 - WINTER 2005
Value Added Service Engineering in Next Generation Networks

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Outline

Tentative schedule and lecture notes

Project

Logistics

Instructor
Roch H. Glitho
Office: CB-410-11, Tel: 1-514-8482424 ext. 5846, Email: Glitho@ciise.concordia.ca
URL: http://www.ece.concordia.ca/~glitho/
Office hours: Tuesdays: 3 pm – 5 pm

Time:
Usually: Tuesday, 17h45 - 20h15
Exeptionnally: Thursday, 14h45 - 17h15

Room
Usually: Room H539 3
Exceptionally: H 501

Objective
The course aims at given students a good grasp of the concepts, rules and principles for engineering services in next generation networks. Value added services or more simply services are anything that goes beyond two party voice call. They are critical to the success and survival of next generation service providers.

Topics

This course is a substantially revised version of the course given in 2004.

Part I: Background

Circuit switched telephony and associated service architectures (e.g. SS7, IN, WAP, TINA-C)
Next generation telecommunication networks (. media, QoS, and signaling protocols / 3G architectures - e.g. RTP, RSVP, SIP, H.323, Megaco/H.248, soft-switches, CSCF)

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Part II: Standard service architectures for the third generation (3G)

Signaling protocol specific architectures (e.g. SIP CGI, SIP servlet, H,323 supplementary services)
Signaling protocol neutral architectures (e.g. Parlay, JAIN JCC/JCAT, CPL)

Part III: Emerging, heterodox and futuristic trends

Use of web services (concepts, principles and application to next generation networks)
Use of Mobile code
Service architectures for beyond 3G / 4G

Prerequisites
ELEC 6861: Higher Layer Telecommunication Protocols

References

Part I

R. Glitho and Th. Magedanz, Intelligent Networks in the New Millennium, IEEE Communications Magazine, Special issue, June 2000, Vol. 38, No6
H. Schulzrinne, Converging on Internet Telephony, IEEE Internet Computing/IEEE Network, Special issue, May/June 1999
A. R. Modarressi and S. Mohan, Advanced Signaling and Control in Next Generation Networks, Special issue, IEEE Communications Magazine, October 2000, Vol.38, No10

Part II

H. Schulzrinne, Converging on Internet Telephony, IEEE Internet Computing, Special issue, May/June 1999
R. Glitho, Advanced Service Architectures for Internet Telephony: A Critical Overview, IEEE Network Magazine, July/June 2000, pp. 38-44
R. H. Glitho, Alternatives to Today’s IETF and ITU-T Advanced Service Architectures for Internet Telephony: IN and Beyond, Computer Networks 35 (2001), Elsevier, April 2001, pp. 551-563
A.J. Moerdijk and L. Klostermann, Opening the Networks with Parlay/OSA: Standards and Aspects Behind the APIs, IEEE Network, May/June 2003, pp. 58-64
R. Glitho and K. Sylla, Developing Applications for Internet Telephony: A Case Study on the Use of Parlay Call Control APIs in SIP Networks, fo, IEEE Network Magazine, May/June 2004, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 48 - 55
R. H. Glitho, F. Khendek and A. DeMarco, Creating Value Added Services in Internet Telephony: An Overview and a Case Study on a High Level Service Creation Environment, IEEE Transactions on Man, Cybernetics and Systems, Part C, Vol.33, No4, 2003, pp. 445 - 457

Part III

D. Lea and S. Vinoski, Middleware for Web services, IEEE Internet Computing, Special Issue, January/February 2003, Vol. 7, No1
ACM Queue, Building Web services, Vol. 1, No 1, March 2003
M. P. Papazoglou, D. Georgakopoulos, Service Oriented Computing, special issue, communications of the ACM, October 2003, Vol. 46, No 10
B. Emako, R.H. Glitho and S. Pierre, A Mobile Agent based Advanced Service Architecture for Wireless Internet Telephony: Design, Implementation and Evaluation, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 52, NO. 6, June 2003
R. H. Glitho, E. Olougouna and S. Pierre, Mobile Agents and Their Use for Information Retrieval: A Brief Overview and an Elaborate Case Study, IEEE Network Magazine, January/February 2002 Vol.16 No1, pp. 34-4
G.D. Abowd et al., Context aware computing, special issue, IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine, Special issue, July/September 2002, Vol. 1, No3
G.D. Abowd et al., Context aware computing, special issue, IEEE Wireless Magazine, October 2002, Vol. 9, No5

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: 25% (Scheduled for week #6)
Quiz #2: 35% (Scheduled for week #13)
Semester long project: 40% (Report and demos scheduled for Week #13)

Tentative schedule and lecture notes

Weeks	TOPICS / LECTURES NOTES	SPECIAL EVENTS
Week #1	Circuit switched telephony and associated service architectures
Week #2	1. Next generation networks I 2. Next generation networks II	2 Lectures
Week #3		No lecture (Lecturer out of town)
Week #4	Next generation networks III
Week #5	Signaling protocol specific architectures
Week #6	Quiz #1	No lecture
Week #7		No lecture (Lecturer out of town)
Week 8		No lecture (mid-term break)
Week 9	Signaling protocol neutral architectures	1 lecture + quiz corrections
Week #10	Fundamentals of Web services	2 Lectures
Week 11	Web services - based architectures	1 Lecture
Week 12	Mobile agent - based architectures	1 Lecture

Week 13	Quiz #2	No lecture (Quiz #2)
Week #14	Project demos/reports	No lecture (Quiz corrections, Project demos / reports)

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The semester long project is on a value added service provisioning system in hot spots. The expected ouput is a report and a demo. The specification defines the scope. This set of slides provides more details.