Communication Networks 3

(Kommunikationsnetze 3)

Main lecturer:
Professor Frank Fitzek

        
Co-lecturer:
Dr.-Ing. Riccardo Bassoli

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The exam will be written. It takes place on the 28th of February between 10:00 and 12:00 in BAR/I15 (120 minutes).
 

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. Prof. Dr. Chan-Byoung Chae from Yonsei University).

Topics

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

• Quantum communication networks
• Molecular communications
• Ultra-reliable low-latency communications and control theory
• Tactile Internet
• Low-latency adaptive streaming

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

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Timetable