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Quality of Service in Internet - Fall Term 2003
2 credits= about 20 hours lectures ja 6 exercises.
Summary
- Lectures on Thursdays in S3, lectures start on September
17th. Last lecture on October 23rd.
- Exercises on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in Maari-C, presence
not required but highly recommended. Exercises start on September 23th
and end on FridayOctober 24th.
- Enroll to course and exercises via topi (not yet open as topi
administration has not updated 2003-2004 courses) to receive
last-minute updates by email.
- All exercise reports must be returned on October 29th by 4pm,
except the 5th and 6th exercises on November 3rd. We suggest you return the
exercise reports before the next exercise begins.
- Final examination on November 17th.
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 are held by
Lectures
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 in room Maari-C.
Lecture days, Thursdays starting from 2003-09-17, 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 six exercises as indicated in the course schedule. Each of them has to be
passed in order to be able to pass the course. We recommend that you
return the exercise report before the next exercise. This gives you
one week's time to complete the exercise. The hard deadline
for all exercise reports is October 29th at 4PM (except the 5th and
6th exercise November 3rd). All reports returned after the
hard deadline are automatically rejected. The due date is strictly
observed. Exercise reports must be returned either in PDF-format or in
paper format.
Exercises are held every Tuesday and Wednesday starting from
23.9.2002. Exercise sessions have two hour introduction to the
exercise setting and questions related to the subject. There are
three groups (R1: Wed 8-10, R2: Wed 12-14, R3: Tue 12-14). Enroll to
one of those (a link will be posted here as soon as this years courses
are published at topi).
The last exercise will be held on Friday 24th
October with following timetable:
- R1
- 8-10
- R2
- 10-12
- R3
- 12-14
- leftovers
- 14-16 (if you cannot make to your original group, try
this)
Final examination
A final examination has to be taken to determine your course grade.
Exam is on 2003-11-17 16-19 S4. It is possible to
have exam earlier if so aggreed on the first lecture (so, be there).
Course grading
To pass the course, one must have minimum number of points from the
exam and must have accepted grade for each exercise
report (exercises are graded either fail / pass or fail /
statisfactory / good / excellent). Exercise points are summed up and
scaled between 1 to 6 (if all passed).
Course grade is based on exam result. There will be 6 questions (2
for each lecturer, maximum 6 points each) in exam and you must select
5 of those which to answer. Exercise points will replace points for
worst answer (assuming that exercise points are higher).
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
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