Quality of Service

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	440-2216/01
Abbreviation	QoS
Course title	Quality of Service
Credits	4
Coordinating department	Department of Telecommunications
Course coordinator	prof. Ing. Miroslav Vozňák, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Information theory, information entropy, coding, noisy and noiseless channel, channel capacity.
2. Kendall's classification of queueuing systems, general notation and solution of basic models.
3. QoS vs QoE and approaches to achieving QoS.
4. Models of network traffic and their use in determining qualitative parameters of transmission in IP networks.
5. Methods of evaluating the quality of multimedia services I.
6. Methods of evaluating the quality of multimedia services II.
7. Evaluation of the quality of the Internet access service (ČTÚ - invited lecture)
8. Network modeling in software tools
9. Concept of SDN networks and their use.
10. Quality of service in SDN networks - I.
11. Quality of services in SDN networks - II .
12. Quality of services in SDN networks - III.
13. QoS in quantum communication infrastructure.

E-learning

https://lms.vsb.cz

Literature

[1] Zukerman M. Introduction to Queueing Theory and Stochastic Teletraffic Models. ArXiv:1307.2968, 2022. URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.2968.
[2] Vozňák M. Voice over IP: Speech Quality and Related Issues. Gazi Academic Publishing, 2017. .
[3] Mehic M., Rass S., Fazio P., and Vozňák, M. Quantum Key Distribution Networks: A Quality of Service Perspective. Springer, 2022. .
[4] Goransson P. Software Defined Networks: A Comprehensive Approach 2nd Edition". Morgan Kaufmann, 2nd ed., 2016. .

Advised literature

[1] Chen Y., Wu K., and Zhang Q. From QoS to QoE: A Tutorial on Video Quality Assessment. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 17, no. 2, 2015, pp. 1126-1165. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6933929.
[2] Jelassi S., Rubino G., Melvin H., Youssef H., and Pujolle G. Quality of Experience of VoIP Service: A Survey of Assessment Approaches and Open Issues. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 14, no. 2, 2012, pp. 491-513. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6129367.
[3] Raake A., and Möller S. Quality of Experience: Advanced Concepts, Applications and Methods. Springer, 2014. .
, URL: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-06608-5
[4] Bhat, U. N. "An Introduction to Queueing Theory: Modeling and Analysis in Applications (Statistics for Industry and Technology)", 2nd ed., Birkhauser, 2015.
[5] Baiocchi A. Network Traffic Engineering: Stochastic Models and Applications. New York: Wiley, 2020. .

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