INSE 7110 - WINTER 2008
Value Added Service Engineering in Next Generation Networks

  News    

  Outline

  Tentative schedule and lecture notes

  Project

News
1.  The last lecture will take place onTuesday, March 18.

2.  The second and last quiz is scheduled for Tuesday, March 25.

3. There will be no lecture in week # 13 (March 31`- April 4)   and week #14 (April 7 - 11)

4.   The project demos are scheduled for week #14 (April 14 - 18)       

Outline  

Logistics

Instructor
Roch H. Glitho
Office: EV007-647, Tel: 1-514-8482424 ext. 5846, Email: Glitho@ciise.concordia.ca
URL: http://www.ece.concordia.ca/~glitho/
Office hours: Tuesday: 3 pm – 5  pm

Time:
Usually: Tuesday, 17h45 - 20h15
Exeptionnally:  Thursday, 20h30 - 23h00

Room
Usually:   H.601
Exceptionally:  H.601


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 revised version of the course given in 2007. 


Part I: Background

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

 


Part III: Emerging, heterodox and futuristic  trends


Prerequisites
ELEC 6861: Higher Layer Telecommunication Protocols


References


Part I



Part II 


Part III

Evaluation scheme

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


 Tentative schedule and lecture notes


Weeks


TOPICS / LECTURES NOTES


EVENTS



Week #1

(January 7 - 11)


Circuit switched telephony and associated service architectures

 1 lecture



Week #2

(January 14-18)




No lecture
(Lecturer out of town)


Week #3

(January  21-25)


Next Generation Networks I

Next Generation Networks II


 2 lectures



Week #4

(January 28 - February. 1st)


Next Generation Networks III

1 lecture
Project specification made available




Week #5

(February 4 - 8)


Signaling protocol specific architectures

 


 1 lecture



Week #6

(February 11 - 18)


Signaling  protocol neutral  architectures

1 lecture



Week #7

February 18 - 25)


  Mid term break







Week 8

(February 25 - 29)


No lecture


 No lecture
(Lecturer out of town)




Week 9
 (March 3 - 7)


  Quiz 1

Fundamentals of Web Services


Quiz 1

1 lecture



Week #10
(March 10 - 14)



 
Web Services based - architectures 1
 

 
  1 lecture


Week 11

(March 17 - 21)


 
 
Web services based - architectures 2
 
Service architectures for 4G
  


  1 lecture



Week 12
(March 24 - 28)

  Quiz #2
Quiz#2

 



Weeks 13,14
(March 31  - April 4,
April 7 - 11)



     No lecture

 No lecture









Week #15
(April 14 - 18)

     


  Porject reports + demos












 

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Specification