Communication Networks 2

(Kommunikationsnetze 2)

Main lecturer:
Professor Frank Fitzek

Co-lecturer:
Dipl.-Ing. Zuo Xiang

Course will be held partially online due to current corona situation.
PLEASE TAKE CARE TO ENROLL VIA OPAL TO RECEIVE ALL THE NEWS.
More information can be found in TUD Aktuelle Hinweise COVID-19

Exam

Examination schedule for the SS 2020:

• Date: TBD
• Time: TBD
• Room: TBD

Description

• Module Number: ET-12 10 05
• Language of lecture: English
• Optional course, 8th semester
• This course is offered only in Summer Semester.

In this course we cover hot topics of communication networks, including but are not limited to:

Course Material

Please take care to enroll via OPAL to receive updates and to get the lecture notes/slides (in the Material zur Lehrveranstaltung SS2020 folder on OPAL).

Teaching Book

This time we will use our new book: Computing in Communication Networks: From Theory to Practice.
An introduction of the book and related slides of each chapter can be founded here.

We will distribute the corresponding chapters of the book in the course.

Related Publications:

• Fitzek, Frank HP, and Patrick Seeling. “Why We Should NOT Talk about 6G.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.02079 (2020).
• Zuo Xiang, Frank Gabriel, Elena Urbano, Giang T. Nguyen, Martin Reisslein, Frank H. P. Fitzek: Reducing Latency in Virtual Machines Enabling Tactile Internet for Human Machine Co-working, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 37 (5), pp. 1098-1116, 2019, ISSN: 0733-8716.
• Justus Rischke, Frank Gabriel, Sreekrishna Pandi, Giang T. Nguyen, Hani Salah, Frank H. P. Fitzek: Improving Communication Reliability Efficiently: Adaptive Redundancy for RLNC in SDN, IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), Paris, France, 2019.
• Tung V. Doan, Alexander Kropp, Giang T. Nguyen, Hani Salah, Frank H. P. Fitzek: Reusing Sub-chains of Network Functions to Support MEC Services, IEEE ISCC, Barcelona, Spain, 2019.
• Robert-Steve Schmoll, Tobias Fischer, Hani Salah, Frank H. P. Fitzek: Comparing and Evaluating Application-specific Boot Times of Virtualized Instances, IEEE 5G World Forum, Dresden, Germany, 2019.
• Tung V. Doan, Giang T. Nguyen, Hani Salah, Sreekrishna Pandi, Michael Jarschel, Rastin Pries, Frank H. P. Fitzek: Containers vs Virtual Machines: Choosing the Right Virtualization Technology for Mobile Edge Cloud, IEEE 5G World Forum, Dresden, Germany, 2019.
• Dongho You, Tung V. Doan, Roberto Torre, Mahshid Mehrabi, Alexander Kropp, Hani Salah, Vu Nguyen, Giang T. Nguyen, Frank H. P. Fitzek: Fog Computing as an Enabler for Immersive Media: Service Scenarios and Research Opportunities, IEEE Access, 2019.

Testbed for exercises

We will use ComNetsEmu, our holistic testbed/emulator. If you have questions or suggestions related to the testbed, or if you faced some issues while using it, please send an email to Zuo Xiang.

Course Schedule

Course will be held partially online due to current corona situation.

Starting date: 07.04.2020
Lectures: Tuesday 13:00 – 14.30    Room: Online
Exercises: Thursday (odd weeks) 13:00 – 14:30    Room: Online

The playlist of all videos is here and you can find clickable links to videos of each specific topic in the “Video” column of the table below.