• interactive online reading tutorials  
  
• hands on exercises within the virtual laboratory. Each exercise takes about 90 minutes and can be carried out just by using the MS-Internet Explorer. The exercises help the students to understand practical aspects of the technologies presented in form of interactive tutorials.


• student forum based on a moodle platform attached to the course
  
• exam patterns with solutions
  
• over 100 multiple choice questions with commented answers covering all treated subjects
  
• a serious of video conferences are offered during the semester. The students at their home university have the opportunity to follow live lectures on special subjects, to ask interactively questions, to report results or problems encountered during carrying out exercises, to discuss exam questions.


• presence exam at the site of the university of each participant  
  

Gliederung:

Part I: Wired- and Wireless Networking: Computer Networking Fundamentals  

• ISO-OSI Architecture Model
  
• TCP/IP Protocol Stack: Architecture Model, Protocols;
        - Application Layer: HTTP, FTP, DNS, SMTP
        - Transport Layer: TCP, UDP
        - Network Layer: IPv4, ICMP
        - Data Link Layer: Ethernet, Spanning Tree


• Introduction to WiFi 802.11 and Wireless LAN (WLAN) architecture
  
• Traffic Analysis using Wireshark
  
• Virtual LANs (VLAN): Principles, Tasks, Case Studies
  
• Addressing and Subnetting within the TCP/IP Networks
  
• Routing Algorithms, Routing Tables
  
• Routing Protocols: Static Routing, RIPv2, OSPF
  
• Examples based on different routers within the virtual Lab
  
• IPv6: native IPv6 networking, tunneling IPv6 over IPv4 infrastructure
  
• Programming network applications based on sockets  
  

• Fundamentals of wireless transmission technology:
        - Antennas and wave propagation  
        - Signal encoding and modulation techniques: ASK, BFSK, MFSK  
        - Signal transmission and muliplexing: FHSS, DSSS, OFDM, CDMA
        - Coding and error control


• WLAN 802.11 standards: .a, .b, .g, .n, .ac
  
• Mobile IP: principles
  
• Traffic Analysis of WLANs configurations using Wireshark and Access Point
  
• TCP Performance over WLAN -techniques
  
• Radio Frequency IDentification technology (RFID): principles, case studies  
  
• IEEE 802.15 (Bluetooth) standards: technology, services, profiles, case studies
  
• WLAN network design  
  
• WLAN management and troubleshooting
  
• WLAN Quality of Service (QoS)
  
• WLAN network security techniques: WEP, WPA, IEEE 802.11i
  
• WLAN Tools: AirPcap, Wireless Monitor, SSID and Channel-Finder
  
• VoWLAN for wireless networks as a case study:
        - voice over IP (VoIP): principles, standard protocols: SIP, H323,  
        - voice over WLAN (VoWLAN): design, performance, profitableness, security


Deepening modules (optional) on wireless and wired networking applications:

a) eHealth Networking



• Reference architecture, definitions, terminology
  
• Standard eHelath protocols:  
        - personal area network (PAN): ISO/IEEE 11073-20601,
        - wide area network (WAN): HL7v2, HL7v3


• Bluetooth health device profile (HDP)
  
• Interoperability of healthcare systems
  
• Security management of mobile eHealth systems using biometric technology (fingerprint)
  
• Internet of Thinks (IoT) for eHealth applications
  

b) Network and Network Application Security



• Classical network attacks: Reconnaissance and Deny of Service (DoS)
  
• Protection methods against network attacks: Packet Filtering, SSL, VPN, NGFW , NGIPS, Radius
  
• IEEE 802.1X, authentication using EAP Protocol
  
• VPN-Tunnel with IPSec
  
• Security of cloud and virtualized networks
  
• Classical WEB application attacks: SQL Injection, XSS, CSRF, etc.  
  
• Secure WEB applications: best practices for protection and development
  
  
c) Network Application Programming



• Client-server programming using TCP Sockets
  
• WEB Server programming
  
• Programming using SSL Sockets
  
• Programming using digital certificate
  
• Application security analysis: behaviour against attacks
  



Detaillierter Inhalt:


PART I: Wired- and Wireless Networks: Computer Network Fundamentals   

This part is intended for beginners in computer wired- and wireless networks. It contains an introduction to networking architecture, TCP/IP protocol stack, Data Link Layer for wired networks (Ethernet) and for wireless LAN networks (WLAN according to IEEE 802.11), IP protocol suite, IP routing algorithms, IP routing protocols, IPv6, introduction to network application programming.  
Exercises in the virtual laboratory for all the above subjects are offering hands on experiments for traffic analysis of TCP/IP protocols, real network components settings as i.e.: switch, routers, VLANs: network configuration design, network application programming. The virtual laboratory is opened 23hrs./7days during the entire semester and can be accessed via Internet.  

PART II: Wireless Communication Networks: Principles and Applications

This part addresses students who have already the knowledge of computer networking fundamentals as prerequisites. It contains Wireless transmission technology, various WLAN 802.11 standards (.a, .b, .g, .n, .ac), RFID, Bluetooth , WLAN Security, WLAN management and troubleshooting as well as advanced networking techniques like Mobile IP, WLAN Quality of Service (QoS),  A serious of optional deepening modules on wireless and wired networking applications are also covered:  
     a) eHealth networking,
     b) Network and network application security,
     c) Network application programming.
Exercises in the virtual laboratory for all the above subjects are offering hands on experiments for traffic analysis of various protocols for WiFi, RFID, Bluetooth, VoIP, eHealth; setting: Access Points, VoWLAN components, WiFi QoS, WiFi security; WLAN network design, secure network application programming. The virtual laboratory is opened 23hrs./7days during the entire semester and can be accessed via Internet.

Lern-/Qualifikationsziele:

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Lehrveranstaltungstyp:

Virtuelles Seminar

Interaktionsformen mit Betreuer/in:

Übungsaufgaben für Selbstlernbetrieb, E-Mail, Übungsaufgaben

Interaktionsformen mit Mitlernenden:

Foren, E-Mail

Kursdemo:

zur Kursdemo