Quality of Service

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	English
Code	440-2216/02
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. Introduction to Switching Systems
2. Spatial switching, Clos condition and design of nonblocking network. Switching Fabric
3. Time switching, complex switching structures
4. Digital network signaling and interfaces
5. Session Initiation Protocol and Session Description Protocol
6. SIP transactions and dialogs, SIP message parsing
7. IMS - concept, elements and multimedia services
8. Queuing theory problems in switching systems and Kendall`s classification
9. Network traffic modeling
10. QoS vs. QoE, quality of real-time services in IP networks
11. Multimedia services quality, subjective and objective methods of quality measurement
12. Software Ddefined Networks (SDN), OpenFlow, concepts and deployment. OpenSwitch and Mininet
13. SDN Controllers and their use, OpenStack
14. M2M communication systems in relation to SDN

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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