Outline and motivation

In the information and communication industry, two outstanding areas of growths are internet technologies as well as mobile networks.

In this lecture, which builds on the subjects of ITC1 (dt. "Rechnernetze"), focuses on:

Today's and future applications and networks

Test and administrative issues

Please build a group of two to three students and chose a topic of the list below (green color means that the topic is available, black that it's already occupied by another group). Then register via email for your topic. The starting date of the lecture is 3'rd of April, where further information about the contents of the "classical" lecture and administrative issues will be provided. Please have a look at the organisational slides below.

The lecture ("classical" lecture style, given by Prof. Dr. Klaus David and his team) will be accompanied by selected subjects given by the students. Further Infos, please see the two figures below.

Possible topics for the students presentations are:

• Today's and future applications and networks
  • DSL
    • ADSL
    • DSL2
  • Gigabit ethernet
    • Packet size, collisions, segment length
    • Transmission media (fiber, Cat x)
  • VoIP
    • Voice coding
    • Transmission via IPv4/IPv6 (Cell filling delay, header compression, ...)
    • SIP protocol
    • RTP protocol
• Security aspects
  • Authentification/accounting
    • Radius
    • Diameter
  • UMTS
    • USIM
    • Mutual authentification
    • UTRAN encryption
    • interworking/Migration with GSM
  • Wlan
    • WEP
    • WPA
  • Firewall
    • NAT/Masquerading
    • Paket level
    • Application level
  • VPN
    • IPsec
    • PPTP
    • OpenVPN

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For further information, please contact

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus David, Room 2408

Dipl.-Ing. Alexander Bolz, Room 2414

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