Delay-Tolerant Networks

Објавено: October 12, 2018
  1.    Course Title Delay-Tolerant Networks
  2.    Code 3ФЕИТ10З022
  3.    Study program TKII
  4.    Organizer of the study program (unit, institute, department) Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies
  5.    Degree (first, second, third cycle) First cycle
  6.    Academic year/semester IV/7   7.    Number of ECTS credits 6.00
  8.    Lecturer Dr Tomislav Shuminoski
  9.    Course Prerequisites

10.    Course Goals (acquired competencies):  The student will be enriched with theoretical and practical work and knowledge in the field of Delay-Tolerant Networks (DTNs). They will study the problems with networking in networks tolerant of huge delay and with problems in the connectivity. Analysis of protocols and possible application used in DTNs (sensor networks, space communications, mobile ad-hoc networks). Developing skills in planning and demonizing of DTNs. Moreover, the students will develop simulation models for DTNs.

11.    Course Syllabus: Introduction for Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN). Networking in "stress" and high heterogeneous environments. Asynchronous message sending. Combination of store-and-forward message switching with physical data transmission/receiving.  Medium access control for delay-tolerant services. Quality of service; streaming control. Modeling of telecommunication traffic; modeling of delays and queues; modeling of delay-tolerant queues. DTN protocol stack. Deterministic and probabilistic routing protocols. DTN Security issues. DTN application requirements. Concrete DTN implementations: inter-planetary communications, submarine communications, sensor networks, mobile ad-hoc networks with minimal number of nodes and etc.

12.    Learning methods:  Lectures, presentations, interactive learning, practical and theoretical exercises (using simulations, software and hardware), team work, case study, invited lecturer(s), homework, project work and/or seminar work, e-learning (forums), consultations.
13.    Total number of course hours 3 + 1 + 1 + 0
14.    Distribution of course hours 180
15.    Forms of teaching 15.1. Lectures-theoretical teaching 45
15.2. Exercises (laboratory, practice classes), seminars, teamwork 30
16.    Other course activities 16.1. Projects, seminar papers 10
16.2. Individual tasks 15
16.3. Homework and self-learning 80
17.    Grading 17.1. Exams 10
17.2. Seminar work/project (presentation: written and oral) 10
17.3. Activity and participation 5
17.4. Final exam 80
18.    Grading criteria (points) up to 50 points     5 (five) (F)
from 51 to 60 points     6 (six) (E)
from 61 to 70 points     7 (seven) (D)
from 71 to 80 points     8 (eight) (C)
from 81 to 90 points     9 (nine) (B)
from 91 to 100 points   10 (ten) (A)
19.    Conditions for acquiring teacher’s signature and for taking final exam Regular participation to lectures and tutorial classes and completion of all laboratory exercises.
20.    Forms of assessment During the semester, two partial written exams are provided (at the middle and at the end of the semester, lasting 120 minutes) and a practical project (after the theoretical classes). The points from the partial exams, the points form the project work, the points from the homework assignments and the points from the laboratory exercises.
In the planned exam sessions, a written exam is taken (duration 120 minutes). The final grade includes the points from the written exam, the points of the project work, the points from the homework assignments and the points from the laboratory exercises.
It is not allowed to use books, scripts, manuscripts or notes of any kind during the exam, as well as a calculator, mobile phone, tablet or any other electronic device
21.    Language Macedonian and English
22.    Method of monitoring of teaching quality Internal evaluation and polls.
23.    Literature
23.1. Required Literature
No. Author Title Publisher Year
1 A. V. Vasilakos, Y. Zhang, T. Spyropoulos Delay Tolerant Networks: Protocols and Applications CRC Press 2011
2 A. Galati Delay Tolerant Network LAP LAMBERT 2010