Module CS4517-KP12

Duration

2 Semester

Turnus of offer

each semester

Credit points

12

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Master IT-Security 2019, optional subject, Elective Computer Science
• Master Entrepreneurship in Digital Technologies 2020, optional subject, specific
• Master Computer Science 2019, optional subject, advanced module

Classes and lectures:

• Mobil communication systems (exercise, 1 SWS)
• Distributed AI (lecture, 1 SWS)
• Distributed AI (exercise, 2 SWS)
• Architectures for distributed communication systems (practical course, 3 SWS)
• Mobil communication systems (lecture, 2 SWS)
• Architectures for distributed communication systems (exercise, 1 SWS)
• Architectures for distributed communication systems (lecture, 2 SWS)

Workload:

• 120 hours in-classroom work
• 105 hours private studies
• 45 hours work on project
• 45 hours exam preparation
• 45 hours group work

Contents of teaching:

• Introduction to Communication Systems and overview of the state-of-the-art technologies
• Wireless Data Link Layer, Network Layer and Technologies (802.15.4, WLAN, GSM, Bluetooth, RFID, LowPowerWANs, Broadcast and Satellite Systems)
• Security in wireless Networks
• Applications of wireless Networks
• Software Architectures
• Basics of communication in distributed networks
• N-Tier Applications
• Architectures of distributed systems (Service-Oriented and Event-Driven Architectures (SOA and EDA), Web-Oriented Architectures (Web 2.0), Overlay Networks, Peer-to-Peer, Grid and Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, verteilte KI)

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• Students can highlight the particularities of wireless mobile communication systems and the challenges and concepts.
• They interpret and follow current research activities and technology trends.
• They can systematically design and evaluate protocols for mobile communication systems and their applications.
• They can design, implement, and operate real-time applications based on wireless communication networks.
• They can analyze technical requirements for mobile radio systems and components and choose solutions.
• They can carry out diagnoses, tests and optimizations of wireless networked mobile communication systems.
• The students are able to name the most important archiectures for distributed systems, explain them, and compare them to each other.
• For each architecture, they know the most prominent and important implementation platforms and basically know how to use them.
• For a given problem, they can analyze which architecture is best suited to solve it, and they can design a plan for the solution's realization.
• They can analyze which architecture is best suited for a given problem and they can design and implement an implementation plan.

Grading through:

• Oral examination

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. Stefan Fischer

Teacher:

• Institute of Telematics
• Prof. Dr.-Ing Horst Hellbrück
• Dr. Mohamed Hail
• Prof. Dr. Stefan Fischer

Literature:

• Jochen Schiller : Mobile Communications 2nd Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2004, Signature: VK 2650 2005 A 302
• Andrew S. Tanenbaum : Computer Networks 4th Edition, Prentice-Hall, 2003, Signature: VK 1670 2004 A 823
• Charles E. Perkins : Ad Hoc Networking 1st Edition, Addison Wesley Professional, December 2000, Signature: VK 1670 2002 A 640
• J. Dunkel, A. Eberhart, S. Fischer, C. Kleiner, A. Koschel : Systemarchitekturen für verteilte Anwendungen Hanser-Verlag 2008
• I. Melzer et.al. : Service-Orientierte Architekturen mit Web Services Spektrum-Verlag 2010

Language:

• English, except in case of only German-speaking participants

Notes:

Last Updated:

06.02.2026