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Quality of Service in Internet - Period 2/2007
4 ECTS = about 20 hours lectures ja 6 exercises.
Last minute notices
Summary
- Lectures on Thursdays in S3, lectures start on November
1st. Last lecture on December ?th.
- Exercises on wednesdays possibly in Maari-C, presence
not required but highly recommended.
- Enroll to course and exercises via topi to receive
last-minute updates by email.
- All exercise reports must be returned on December xxth by 4pm. We suggest
you return the exercise reports before the next exercise begins.
- Final examination on tuesday December 18th from 9-12 at S1.
- Give feedback after you've taken the exam. Please note, that in order to qualify for grading you must give feedback. Thank you for your input to develop the course!
Prequisites
Prequisite for the course is basic understanding of the operation of
TCP/IP networks. Courses like S-38.188
and S-38.121 provide you with necessary
and adequate background. The study guide states those as
prerequisites. It is not checked if you have taken those courses, but
at course solid knowledge is assumed.
Personnel
Lectures & exercises are given by
Lectures
You need to sign up to the course using WWWTopi.
Lectures are given in Finnish and all materials are in
English. Lectures and exercises are held according to the schedule. Lectures are held in lecture hall
S3 and exercises possibly in room Maari-C.
Lecture days, Thursdays starting from November 1st, are divided into
two sessions. Morning session starts on 9AM and lasts for two hours
and the afternoon session starts at noon and ends at 2PM.
Exercises
This course has four exercises as indicated in the course schedule. Each of them has to be
passed in order to be able to pass the course. Each exercise has
individual deadline which is enforced. Usually this is before the next exercise. This gives you
one week's time to complete the exercise. All reports
returned after the hard deadline indicated in exercise instructions are automatically rejected. The due
date is strictly observed. Exercise reports must be returned in paper format.
Exercises are held in Maari-C. Exercise sessions have two hour
introduction to the exercise setting and questions related to the
subject.
Final examination
A final examination has to be taken to determine your course grade.
The first exam will be on December 18th, 2007, in lecture hall S1. Please, register via
WWWtopi.
After the final exam, please give feedback on the course.
Course requirements and grading
To qualify for grading in the first place, you have to submit course
feedback with Department Course Feedback System. Please note, that your personal info and the course feedback you give will be separated.
To pass the course, you must have a minimum number of points from the
exam and must have accepted grade for each and every exercise
report.
Course grade is based on exercise and exam result. There will be 6
questions (covering all lectured topics, maximum 6 points each) in exam and you
must select 5 of those which to answer. Final grade is determined with 60% for exam and
40% for exercises.
Exercise reports and exam answers may be in English in addition to
official languages in Finland if you are not native speaker of either
of one.
Material
Course material consist of the following:
- The course textbook "Internet Quality of Service: Architectures
and Mechanisms " by Zheng Wang (ISBN: 1-55860-608-4)
- Lecture slides to support the lectures (these are NOT to be taken
as a standalone material or as a replacement for the book).
- Exercise material to aid in completing the exercise and to provide
background information
- A selected set of related journal and conference papers and
articles
All extra material will be
- Delivered by Edita Prima Opetusmonisteet
- Available near course noticeboard (one copy for self-copying, if
stolen not replaced)
- Downloadable from course web pages. Note that printing
with TKK printers is strictly forbidden.
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