INSE 7110 -  WINTER 2004

Value Added Service Engineering in Next Generation Networks

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Outline

Tentative schedule and lecture notes

Project

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Outline  

Instructor
Roch H. Glitho
Office: CB-410-11, Tel: 848-2424 ext. 5846, Email: Glitho@ciise.concordia.ca
URL: http://www.ece.concordia.ca/~glitho/
Office hours: Tuesdays: 3 pm – 5  pm

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 an extended version of a full day tutorial presented at IEEE Globecom 2003 and which is now available on-line.

Part I: Background

• Legacy service architectures (i.e Intelligent Networks (IN), Wireless Access Protocol (WAP)/I-mode and Telecommunication Information Network Architecture (TINA)

•  Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)

• H.323, Megaco and soft-switches

Part II: Today’s service architectures for next generation networks

•  Legacy based architectures (e,g, PINT, SPIRITS)

• 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 approaches

• Web services (concepts, principles and application to next generation networks)

• Mobile code (Mobile agents, active networks)

•  Context awareness (concepts, principles and application to next generation networks)

Prerequisites
ELEC 6861: Higher Layer Telecommunication Protocols

References

J. Zuidweg, Next Generation Intelligent Networks, Artech House Publishers, 2002 (Covers most of part I and part II).  No existing textbook covers entirely the syllabus. In addition to the reference above, the articles listed below can be consulted. Lecture notes will also be posted on the instructor’s URL. 

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, 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, forthcoming, IEEE Network Magazine (Copy available upon request)

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 #7)

• Quiz #2: 35% (Scheduled for week #12)

• Semester long project: 40% (Report and demos scheduled for Week #13)

 Tentative schedule and lecture notes

Project

The year-long project is on IP phones, soft-switches and value added services. The expected output is a report and a demo. The specification gives information on the logistics and the components to specify, design and implement.