Course Title: Network Services and Internet Applications

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Network Services and Internet Applications

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
EEET1089	City Campus	Undergraduate	125H Electrical & Computer Engineering	Face-to-Face	Sem 2 2006, Sem 2 2007, Sem 2 2008, Sem 2 2009, Sem 2 2010, Sem 2 2011, Sem 2 2012, Sem 2 2014, Sem 2 2015, Sem 2 2016
EEET1089	City Campus	Undergraduate	172H School of Engineering	Face-to-Face	Sem 2 2018, Sem 2 2020, Sem 2 2022, Sem 2 2023

Course Coordinator: Dr Mark A Gregory

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 3243

Course Coordinator Email: mark.gregory@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: 10.8.16

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None.

Course Description

The course facilitates critical thinking about the Internet and the delivery of services using the Internet and the digital network, by focusing on the fundamentals of these systems. The course covers significant real-time services, including IPTV, multimedia, social networking, VoIP, and the Internet including website services. Technologies and services are discussed including how to apply the technologies to new ventures. Topics include: the bandwidth versus quality trade-off for Internet based communication modes (VoIP, digital TV, video conferencing, motion video) and the compression technologies associated with these systems; competing routing methodologies; performance analysis models; and the successful employment of Internet communication technologies for E-Commerce applications.

This course includes a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) experience in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context and where feedback from industry and/or community is integral to your experience. WIL activities include simulations and projects using industry technology, equipment and processes.

Please note that if you take this course for a bachelor honours program, your overall mark in this course will be one of the course marks that will be used to calculate the weighted average mark (WAM) that will determine your award level.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

This course contributes to the following Program Learning Outcomes for BH072 Bachelor of Engineering (Computer and Network Engineering)(Honours):

1.3 In-depth understanding of specialist bodies of knowledge within the engineering discipline.

2.1 Application of established engineering methods to complex engineering problem solving.

2.2 Fluent application of engineering techniques, tools and resources.

 

For more information on the program learning outcomes for your program, please see the program guide.  

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

1. Explain network services and Internet applications including content delivery networks, multicasting, digital TV, VoIP, multimedia including video and digital audio, social networking and Internet services and applications. 
2. Explain how organisations utilise over the top technologies to achieve economically successful outcomes.
3. Configure typical industry deployment scenarios for VoIP and streaming multimedia delivery. 

 

Overview of Learning Activities

You will be actively engaged in a range of learning activities such as lectorials, tutorials, practorials, laboratories, seminars, project work, class discussion, individual and group activities. Delivery may be face-to-face, online or a mix of both.

You are encouraged to be proactive and self-directed in your learning, asking questions of your lecturer and/or peers and seeking out information as required, especially from the numerous sources available through the RMIT library, and through links and material specific to this course that is available through myRMIT Studies Course.

Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through myRMIT Studies Course. 

There are services available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the myRMIT student portal.

Overview of Assessment

☒This course has no hurdle requirements.

Assessment consists of activities and quizzes carried out in workshop, tutorial and laboratory sessions. The course assessment includes a final assessment.

The assessment and learning outcomes for this course equivalent across all locations and modes of delivery.

Assessment tasks Assessment Task 1: Workshop Weighting 30% This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 3 Assessment Task 2: Laboratory Weighting 30% This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 3 Assessment Task 3: Project Weighting 25% This assessment supports CLOs 1, 2, 3 Assessment Task 4: Final Timed-Assessment Weighting 15% This assessment supports CLOs 1, 2, 3 The final timed-assessment will be a 1-hour activity that may be taken within a 1.5-hour period.  This assessment is a timed and timetabled assessment of less than 2 hours duration that students must attend on campus except for international students who are resident outside Australia.