1 Semester or equivalent

48 hours

Hawthorn

Nil

Credit Points: 12.5 Credit Points

Related Course/s:

A unit of study in the Master of Science (Network Systems) and Master of Engineering Science (Network Systems and Telecommunications)

Aims & Objectives:

Students who successfully complete this unit of study will be able to:
• Explore the key ideas of the emerging high-speed broadband networks.
• Understand the issues and challenges involved in delivering mixed services and traffic types over broadband networks.
• Describe the evolution of consumer access technologies
• Understand impact of overlay/proxy systems on consumer experience
• Understand TCP performance and its behaviour, and link layer impact on QoS
• Understand VoIP, its management and signalling protocols
• Explain Internet traffic characterisation, network security, resilience and content delivery

Teaching Methods:

Lecture (24 hrs), Tutorials (12 hrs) and Practical Classes (12 hrs)

Assessment:

Assignment, Laboratory, Written Examination

Generic Skills Outcomes:

The key generic skills which relate to this unit of study help to produce graduates who have:
• Ability to apply knowledge of basic science and engineering fundamentals;
• In-depth technical competence in at least one engineering discipline;
• Ability to utilise a systems approach to design and operational performance;
• Ability to understand problem identification, formulation and solution;

Content:

• Realtime and non-realtime services over shared IP infrastructures
• Consumer experience, overlay solutions to improve overall service quality
• Voice over IP
• IP Quality of Service
• Resilient content delivery
• Evolution of consumer access technologies
• Wireless broadband

Reading Materials:

Grenville Armitage, "Quality of Service in IP Networks - Foundations for a Multi-Service Internet” Macmillan Technical Publishing, April 2000.
Web-based technical and research publications as noted in lecture material