Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2503743 Management of Smart and Sustainable Cities | OB | 2 | 2 |
The subject is selfcontained.
Smart cities require a large amount of data to improve city services and the quality of life of their citizens in general.
For such data sets to be accessible and usable by any type of solution of a smarty city, it is required that high-capacity and high-performance communicaiton systems are in place. These systems will utilize up-to-date transmission protocols that guarantee the data flow to be fast, reliable and secure.
The fundamental objective of this subject is to provide the student with a good basis about underlying principles of communication systems with special enphasis on the scalability and interconnectivity
1. Introduction to communication systems and networks
2. Part A. Fundamentals of communication systems
- Introduction to Information Theory
- Elements of a communication system
- Taxonomies of communication systems
- Examples of relevant standards of communications
3. Part B. Fundamentals of network protocols
- Networking protocols
- End-to-end protocolos
- Application protocols
- Advanced networking protocols
The teaching methodology will be scheduled as follows:
1) Weekly sessions of two hours for theoretical content.
2) Weekly sessions of one hour for applied exercises
3) Laboratory sessions for monitored practical (project-based/hands-on) work.
There will also be team activities that students will do on their own as part of continuous evaluation.
The UAB virtual platform (Campus Virtual, https://cv.uab.cat/ ) and TEAMs will be used for communication between teachers and students.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Practical sessions | 12.5 | 0.5 | 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 2 |
Weekly lecturing sessions | 25 | 1 | 3, 9, 8, 7 |
Weekly practical sessions | 12.5 | 0.5 | 1, 5, 6, 2 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Reports | 12.5 | 0.5 | 4, 6, 9, 8, 10 |
Team work | 12.5 | 0.5 | 1, 7, 10, 2 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Solving practical exercises | 23 | 0.92 | 5, 8 |
Study of contents | 25 | 1 | 1, 3, 9, 8, 7 |
The evaluation of the subject will be by continuous evaluation as follows
A. Comprehension questionnaire on the theoretical content of the networking part.
B. Comprehension questionnaire on the theoretical content of the systems part.
C. Delivery of reports on the execution of practical sessions of the networking part.
D. Delivery of reports on the execution of practical sessions of the systems part.
The numerical grade evaluation will be weighted as follows: A 25%, B 25%, C 25%, D 25%. For this evaluation, a minimum grade of 3 will be required in all parts. The parts with less than a 3 must be recovered in order to have a final grade.
Students who have been evaluated for a minimum of 2/3 of the evaluation of the subject will be able to opt for the recovery process.
In the case of recovery of the practical exercise (delivery after the deadline), there will be a 30% penalty.
The recovery process will consist of an additional questionnaire for points A and B, and a second delivery period for points C and D.
There will no be differentiated treatment for students who repeat the subject.
The final grade will appear as "Not Evaluable" only when the student has not participated in the evaluation process.
Fnal grade with honors according to UAB policy (free matriculation fee) will be granted to those students who, having obtained a final grade equal or superior to nine (9), have shown active participation throughout the course.
Notwithstanding other disciplinary measures deemed appropriate, and in accordance with the academic regulations in force, assessment activities will receive a zero (0) whenever a student commits academic irregularities that may alter such assessment. Assessment activities graded in this way and by this procedure will notbe re-assessable. If passing the assessment activuty or activities in question is required to pass the subject, the awarding of a zero (0) for disciplinary measures will also entail a direct fail for the subject, with no opportunity to re-assess this in the same acadeimc year. Irregularities contemplated in this procedure include, among others:
When a student is involved in any evaluation irregularity, the final mark of the course will be the lowest value considering 3.0 and the weighted average of the grades (and no compensation is thus possible).
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Reports | Reports | 2 | 0.08 | 9, 8, 7 |
Tests | Tests | 25 | 1 | 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 2 |
Class notes.
Basic references:
D.E. Comer (2005). Internetworking with TCP/IP, 5th Edition. Prentice Hall.
Supplementary references:
Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Parul Agarwal, Kavita Khanna (2022). IoT for Sustainable Smart Cities and Society. Springer.
D.E. Comer (2005). Internetworking with TCP/IP, 5th Edition. Prentice Hall.
G. Tomsho (2011). Guide to Networking Essentials, 6th Edition. Cengage.
W. R. Stevens (1993). TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume I. Addison-Wesley.
A.S. Tanenbaum (2002). Computer Networks, 4th Edition. Prentice Hall.
N. Barcia, C. Fernández, S. Frutos, G. López, L. Mengual, F.J. Soriano, F.J. Yágüez (2005). Redes de computadores y arquitecturas de comunicaciones. Supuestos prácticos. Pearson Prentice Hall.
Docker, Linux and Virtual Box.