Internet Transport

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Course Details

Continuing the positive experience from the last semesters, we have decided to offer the course Internet Transport in a format that considers the possibility for as well students as lecturer and tutors to give and / or consume parts of the course online using webconference tools.

Important: The course will be given synchronously, i.e. participation is live either in presence or online. An interactive manuscript will support preparation and reworking but cannot replace participation. We strongly encourage personal presence in the units.

Remark:
The course Internet Transport is a revised and updated version of the courses Media Transport resp. Future Media Internet. Hence in case you already successfully passed an earlier version you cannot gain credit points anew!

Introduction

More than 20 years ago researchers observed distruptive changes in network and service architectures: Everything over IP, IP over Everything, inspired by the push of telephone companies towards Voice over IP, created the vision of a unified network and service architecture. The core observation has been that the internet—represented by its core-protocols, i.e. IP on the so-called network layer and TCP on the so-called transport layer—can be run over nearly all physical media (IP over Everything (IPoE)) and in addition can be used to carry any form of data imaginable: texts, images, graphics but also media like voice, radio or television (Everything over IP (EoIP)).

The course Internet Transport will introduce the requirements for the transport of media and other time-critical data over the Internet, introduce proper channel models, calculate the channel capacity of those channels and derive a framework for optimised media transport. We will look into both domains, the time and the reliability domain, showing that they partially contradict each other and that the transport—supported and partially enabled by the lower and the higher layers—needs to be rethought to fullfill the requirements of EoIP/IPoE. Besides giving an overview over recent specifications and standards (TSN, DASH) the course will introduce latest research results on predictably reliable transport protocols.

Prerequisites

Digital Transmission & Signal Processing as well as Audio/Visual Communications and Networks are recommended for this course. Students with solid background in Computer Networks and Error Correction, however, are also encouraged to participate.

Course Structure

Basic Rules

• Please note that small changes and corrections will be applied to the lecture notes throughout the semester. If you find mistakes or have suggestions how to enhance the lecture notes we appreciate your input! 
• Please don’t hesitate to tell us if you have any comments or suggestions related to lecture notes, task sheets, exercises or even organizational things. We will improve it soon so you can benefit from it, not only future students.

Lectures

• The lecture will be offered in a hybrid format (classroom plus remote participation via MS Teams). Under special circumstances it might be advantageous or even required to omit the classroom and switch to fully remote. This will be announced on time.
• MS Teams: IT SS 2026 Team (send a join request for remote participation)
• Place: Campus E1.3, Room: HS001
• Time: Tuesday 14:30–15:45 and Wednesday 12:15–13:45 (start April 7^th)

Tutorials

• Moodle: IT (SS26) (enrol to access quizzes and assignments)
• Place: Campus C6.3, Room: 9.05 (presence)
• Time: Wednesday 14:15–15:45
• Tutor: Robin Kremer & Marlene Böhmer

Quizzes

• Weekly Moodle quizzes with 15 minutes for 5 questions within the time below.
• Place: Lecture room (or online via Moodle)
• Time: Tuesday 14:00–14:30

Task Sheets

• Task sheets are published on the day succeeding the tutorials in Moodle.
• You submit your solution and work on the tasks up to and including the following tutorial.
• During the tutorial you can discuss and evolve your solutions.

Exam Dates

• The exams will be held as ORAL exams. How you can choose a certain exam slot will be announced on time.
• Main Exam: July 27^th–29^th, Place: C6 3 10.02, slot allocation via Moodle
• Re-Exam: September 21^st–23^rd, Place: C6 3 10.02, slot allocation via Moodle

Exam Eligibility

• We will check attendance in the lectures. You need to collect 50% attendance points, with personal presence accounting for 1 point and hybrid participation accounting for 0.5 point.
• The weekly quizzes and task sheets for this course will be divided into two parts, blocks A&B containing 6 quizzes and 6 task sheets each.
• You need a minimum of 19.2 points (40%) of the 48 points achievable in a block to pass a block. (Each quiz is worth 5 points and each task sheet is worth 3 points.)
• You must pass attendance and both block A and B to be eligible for the exam.

Matlab

• UdS has a MATLAB campus license which can be used by all university students for non-commercial purposes.

Literature

• Ramjee Prasad, Marina Ruggieri: "Technology Trends in Wireless Communications", Artech House Publishers, 2003, ISBN = {1-58053-352-3}
• Mihaela van der Schaar, Philip A. Chou: "Multimedia over IP and wireless networks: compression, networking, and systems", Academic Press, 2007, ISBN = {0-12088-480-1}