Quality of Service in Internet - Period 2/2006

4 ECTS = about 20 hours lectures ja 6 exercises.

Last minute notices

Date	Issue
28.11.2006	Feedback form published.
13.11.2006	No exercise on week 46. First exercises on week 47.
8.11.2006	Lecture schedule stabilizing, exercise schedule still under construction.
24.10.2006	This page opened. Materials not yet available and timetables highly tentative

Summary

Lectures on Thursdays in S3, lectures start on November 2nd. Last lecture on December 8th.
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 December 18th from 9-12 at S2.
Give feedback after you've taken the exam. Please note, that in order to qualify for grading you must give feedback. Thanks 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

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 2004-11-02, 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, 2006, in lecture hall S2. Please, register via WWWtopi.

After the final exam, please give feedback on the course. Please note, that the feedback form is closed on friday, December 22nd.

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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