Aim

<h2>Aim</h2>¶ <p>Aim This course will give both practical and general knowledge concerning Voice over IP. The emphasis will be on the underlying protocols.</p><h3>Learning Outcomes</h3><p>¶

Learning Outcomes Following this course a student should be able to:</p><ul> <li>¶


* Understand the relevant protocols (particularily SIP, SDP, RTP, and SRTP): what they are, how they can be used, and how they can be extended.</li> <li>
* Enable you to utilize SIP in Presence and event-based communications</li> <li>
* Understand how SIP can provide application-level mobility along with other forms of mobility</li> <li>
* Understand how SIP can be used to facilitate communications access for users with disabilities (for example using real-time text, text-to-speech, and speech-to-text) and to know what the basic requirements are to provide such services</li> <li>
* Understand SIP can be used as part of Internet-based emergency services and to know what the basic requirements are to provide such services</li> <li>
* Contrast "peer-to-peer" voice over IP systems (i.e., how they differ, how they might scale, what are the peers, ...)</li> <li>
* Know the relevant standards and specifications - both of the protocols and of the requirements (for example, concerning legal intecept)</li> <li>
* Understand the key issues regarding quality-of-service and security</li> <li>
* Evaluate existing voice over IP and other related services (including presence, mobile presence, location-aware, context-aware, and other service)</li> <li>
* Design and evaluate new SIP based services</li> <li>
* Read the current literature at the level of conference papers in this area. <ul> <li>
* While you may not be able to understand all of the papers in journals, magazines, and conferences in this area - you <strong>should</strong>should be able to read 90% or more of them and have good comprehension. In this area it is especially important that develop a habit of reading the journals, trade papers, etc. <em>In addition, you should also be aware of both standardization activities, new products/services, and public policy in the area.</em></li> </ul> </li> <li>

* Demonstrate knowledge of this area both orally and in writing. <ul> <li>By <em>writing</em>
* By writing a paper suitable for submission to conferences and journals in the area.</li> </ul> </li></ul><p>

This course should prepare you for starting an exjobb in this area (for undergraduate students) or beginning a thesis or dissertation (for graduate students).</p>¶