Aim

<h2>Aim</h2>

<p>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>Following this course a student should be able to:</p>
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 <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.
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   <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> 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>
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 <li>Demonstrate knowledge of this area both orally and in writing.
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   <li>By <em>writing</em> a paper suitable for submission to conferences and journals in the area.</li>
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<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>