Communication Networks 3

(Kommunikationsnetze 3)

Main lecturer:
Professor Frank Fitzek

        
Co-lecturer:
Dr.-Ing. Hani Salah

        
Co-lecturer:
Dipl.-Ing. Zuo Xiang

Organization

Optional course, 9th Semester
Extent: 2 1 0 (V/Ü/P)
Tuesday at 14:50 and Wednesday at 11:10 every even week
Language of lectures: English.

Lecturers

Prof. Fitzek, members of the chair, and invited speakers (e.g. Dr. Bruno Jacobfeuerborn, Deutsche Telekom AG).

Topics

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

• Tactile Internet & Cyber Physical Systems
• Network Slicing
• Mobile Edge Cloud
• Content Distribution: Information-Centric Networking, Content Delivery Networks
• Software-Defined Networks
• Network Function Virtualisation
• Machine Learning (for communication networks)
• Exercises: Mininet, Docker, Network Slicing, Mobile Edge Cloud

Textbook

This time we will use our new book: “Computing in Communication Networks: From Theory to Practice“.

        

Related Publications:

• 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.

Opal

Please enroll in OPAL to receive updates and to get the lecture notes/slides. The registration is open till 5.11.2019.

Timetable