Modules

Prerequisites

Contents

• History, structure, and organization of the Internet • Internet economics • Internet protocol stack (IPv4, CIDR, IPv6, DHCP, BGP, TCP, UDP, DNS, HTTP) • Quality of Service (types, mechanisms, Intserv, Diffserv) • Fundamentals of multimedia communication • Data center networking • Content distribution networks

Learning outcomes

Students understand the functioning of the Internet, in particular the most important Internet protocols and principles of application design, including the underlying basics and techniques (e.g. the internet protocol stack), as well as the basics of multimedia communication. They are familiar with modern developments in the Internet and advanced topics from practice and research (e.g. quality of qervice, peer-to-peer, cloud computing, internet of things). They are enabeled to specialize in these topics.

Assessment

Prerequisite: • Successful completion of exercise sheets Final module examination: • Written examination,90 min. OR • Oral examination, 30-45 min. (with small number of participants) In the first lecture it will be announced, if the examination will be offered in written or oral form.

Remarks

• Study programme Informatik M.Sc.: Compulsory elective module in complex „AAngewandte und technische Informatik” (level 400) • Study programme Physics M.Sc.: Compulsory elective module in subsidiary subject „Computer Science” • Study programme Cyber Security M.Sc.: Compulsory elective module in complex „Computer Science” • Study programme Künstliche Intelligenz Technologie M.Sc.: Compulsory elective module in complex „Software-basierte Systeme”