Unit Telecommunications Networks for Emergency Management
- Course
- Safety engineering for the territory and the built environment
- Study-unit Code
- A000923
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Mauro Femminella
- Teachers
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- Mauro Femminella
- Hours
- 24 ore - Mauro Femminella
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Ingegneria della sicurezza e protezione dell'informazione
- Academic discipline
- ING-INF/03
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Teaching unit: overview of the TCP/IP protocol stack (2 hours)
Teaching unit: application protocols (12 hours)
Teaching unit: transport protocols (10 hours)
Teaching unit: IP protocol (8 hours)
Teaching unit: overview of the data link protocols (4 hours)
Teaching unit: main wireless technologies for emergencies (2 hours)
Teaching unit: laboratory experiments using open source IT tools (10 hours) - Reference texts
- Reference readings:
J. Kurose, K. Ross, Computer networks and internet. A top-down approach, 6a (or 7a) ed., Pearson, 2013 (2017).
Material used by the teacher during the lesson will be provided through the Unistudium web platform.
Additional readings:
A. Pattavina, Reti di Telecomunicazione, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, 2003.
M. Gast, 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition, O'Reilly, 2005. - Educational objectives
- This is the only course about telecommunications networks in the curriculum, and analyses the basic aspects of networking from a protocols and system point of view. The main objective of the course is to provide methodological and practical tools for the implementation of telecommunications networks and systems that can adequately support operations during emergencies. For this reason, after a general introduction to networking, particular emphasis will be given to the study of wireless networks, their interconnection with wired systems, their design and/or configuration in emergency scenarios.
The main project constraints that the student will be required to consider, depending on the applications to be supported in emergency scenarios, will be the offered functions and the system transmission capacity. The main knowledge acquired at the end of the course will be:
- basic elements of telecommunications networks, with particular emphasis on high-level protocols, for the interface with the applications to be used in emergency scenarios;
- knowledge of the network architectures of the most widespread wireless systems (LTE, WiFi), with particular attention to the offered functions and to the interconnection mechanisms with other networks.
The main skills, ie the ability to apply the knowledge acquired in the course, will be:
- evaluation of the most suitable technological solution to the considered scenario (local area, metropolitan, geographical/mobile, satellite network);
- capability to analyze the performance of a wireless network from the view point of service capacity;
- capability of implementing, through open-source software tools, experiments allowing understanding the basic principles of networks, with particular attention to wireless networks;
- master the basic tools for measuring the quality of a wireless network. - Prerequisites
- In order to understand the teaching content and to be able to apply most of the techniques described, no further knowledge are required in addition to those already included in the courses of mathematics, physics, and basic computer science typical of the curriculum of any first level degree in engineering. This also includes experiments with open source software that will be carried out during the course.
- Teaching methods
- The course is provided via e-learning. All the material for the studends will be made available through the University web portal (UNISTUDIUM).
- Other information
- The lessons can be integrated with seminars. Lessons and lab experiences will be carried out always in e-learning mode.
- Learning verification modality
- The exam includes a single oral test to be held at the end of the course. This test, with an average duration of about 30 minutes, is aimed at ascertaining the level of knowledge and understanding achieved by the student on the theoretical and methodological contents of the course: TCP/IP protocol stack, basic wireless networks knowledge.
This assessment method ensures to ascertain the knowledge and understanding of course topics, the ability to apply the acquired skills, the ability to exhibit them, and to the ability to learn and develop solutions with independent judgment. - Extended program
- Teaching unit: overview of the TCP/IP protocol stack (2 hours): basic concepts on the separation of network functions in different protocol layers and functions relevant to each layer;
Teaching unit: application protocols (12 hours): operation of the DNS system, of the HTTP protocol;
Teaching unit: transport protocols (10 hours): basic functions of the transport layer, operation of the TCP protocol (applicability, connection set up and tear down, error control, flow control, congestion control), operation of the UDP protocol (applicability, basic functions)
Teaching unit: IP protocol (8 hours): basic principles of IP protocol, datagram mode, packet format, addressing and routing tables, outline of routing protocols;
Teaching unit: outline of the connection protocols (4 hours): functionality of layer 2, Ethernet switches;
Teaching unit: main wireless technologies for emergency networks (2 hours): architecture of mobile LTE networks, WiFi networks;
Teaching unit: laboratory experiments using open source IT tools to be used on a virtualized platform (10 hours).