Courses

The lectures in Advanced Communication Networks cover hot topics of communication networks, such as Software-defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Mobile Edge Cloud (MEC), Network Slicing, Time-Sensitive Networking, and Programmable Data Planes. There is roughly one exercise for every two lectures to engage students with practical skills and tools, such as docker containers, mininets, and ComNetsEmu. To keep the content up-to-date with the fast-paced development of the area of research, we are revising the course for a new structure from the summer semester of 2024 as an independent module. We will increase the proportion of tutorials and hands-on sessions.

The Software Engineering course is offered to second-year students of the Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty. The course integrates the Cluster of Excellence for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (CeTI) concepts by introducing a complete chain of sensors, compute, and actuators into the teaching content. Moreover, the student will learn in-depth about embedded systems' software development.

Previously, members of the HCS group also actively gave tutorials on network softwarisation, such as at the NFV-SDN conference in 2018 in Verona (Italy).