PROGRAMMAZIONE DIDATTICA COORTE A.A. 2019/2020
CORSO DI LAUREA MAGISTRALE in 10378 INTERNET AND MULTIMEDIA ENGINEERING (classe LM-27)

SCHEDA INFORMATIVA

Sede amministrativa:  GE
Classe delle lauree in: 

Classe delle lauree magistrali in INGEGNERIA DELLE TELECOMUNICAZIONI (classe LM-27)
Durata:  2 anni
Indirizzo web:  http://www.ime.ingegneria.unige.it/
Dipartimento di riferimento:  DIPARTIMENTO DI INGEGNERIA NAVALE, ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE TELECOMUNICAZIONI

PIANO DI STUDI

1° anno (coorte 2019/2020)

Codice Disciplina Settore CFU Tipologia/Ambito Obiettivi Formativi Propedeuticità
56632 COMPUTER GRAPHICS ING-INF/03 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni
 		Raster graphics algorithms for drawing 2D primitives. Geometrical transformations and Projections. Curves and surfaces representation. Illumination and shading. Visible-surface determination. Introduction to OpenGL.

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65984 DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ING-INF/03 10 10 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni
 		The course is aimed at providing the bases of digital communications: the baseband and bandpass transmissions will be presented and discussed, as well as the main channel coding techniques. The goal is to give the students an adequate knowledge needed to understand the key elements for designing and developing modern telecommunication systems.

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66202 MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH 10

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  66204 - OPERATIONS RESEARCH MAT/09 5 5 CFU AFFINI O INTEGRATIVE Attività Formative Affini o Integrative
 		Linear and nonlinear programming. Linear and nonlinear least squares. Optimal control. Optimal filtering.

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  86829 - MATHEMATICAL METHODS MAT/07 5 5 CFU AFFINI O INTEGRATIVE Attività Formative Affini o Integrative
 		After the first part of the course the students will be able to use mathematical methods to describe real-world phenomena, such as heat diffusion and wave propagation. More specifically, they will be able to classify and manage the main analytical solution methods for linear partial differential equations, together with some techniques for their numerical solution. In the second part, the students will learn to manage multistage optimization problems by means of dynamic programming, which will be employed also to solve classical problems on graphs, such as the shortest path and shortest spanning tree, together with other algorithms.

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90147 INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES: ARCHITECTURES AND PROTOCOLS ING-INF/03 10 10 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni
 		• Review of the Internet Architecture and Protocols o IPv4 review (management of IP addresses); IP routing algorithms and protocols review; Multicast; IPv6; UDP/TCP; Flow and congestion control in packet networks; Application layer • Network and Computer Security o Basic concepts; Algorithms; Standard protocols; Vulnerability of networks; Summary of the local (Italian) regulations; Computer security • Wireless Network architecture and Protocols o Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11); Bluetooth (IEEE 802.15.1) • Quality of Service (QoS) in IP Networks o Introduction to QoS in IP networks; Differentiated Services and Integrated Services IETF Architectures; ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP); Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) • Multimedia services over the Internet o Voice and Video over IP; Real Time Protocol (RTP) and Session Description Protocol (SDP)

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90138 MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS ING-INF/03 10

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  90139 - PHYSICAL LAYER MODELS AND TECHNIQUES FOR SOFTWARE RADIO ING-INF/03 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni
 		Mathematical models for radio transmission: (20) Radio Channel models; Free space model; Probabilistic rain model; Multipath time-variant general statistical model (Time variant pulse response, First order channel models (Fading (Rayleigh, Rice, Nagakami)); Second order models. Radio transmission system models: Frequency selectivity and temporal fading; Slow and fast fading; Diversity transmission (frequency, time, space); Wideband transmissions as frequency selective channels; Channel models and rake receivers. Wideband Digital radio transmission: systems and techniques (20): Multiple Access techniques overview; Wideband modulations: Spread Spectrum: General concepts, Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum and CDMA, Orthogonal Frequency Division Modulation (OFDM) Software and Cognitive Radio (10) : Software radio architectures;. from software to cognitive radio

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  90140 - PERVASIVE COMMUNICATION AND CONTEXT AWARENESS ING-INF/03 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni
 		The Internet society is based on technological solution for continuative and pervasive connection of persons and objects (IoT). In the course, different radio technologies are investigated and compared able to guarantee such global connection, including terrestrial and satellite solutions. Radio coverage strategies will be examined by comparing different cell planning methodologies. Terrestrial mobile telephone standards like GSM/GPRS, WCDMA and LTE will be examined and compared with satellite technologies like Globalstar and Iridium. The smartphone platform will be considered as a multi-standard platform able to connect persons and things beyond the telephone network, including Wifi, Bluetooth, RFID, BLE, NFC. The added value represented by position estimation of terminal, persons and things will be considered with reference to applications for logistics, transportation and health. In such view, methodologies based on terrestrial radio fingerprinting and satellite-based global systems (GPS/Galileo/Egnos) will be introduced.

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90315 ANTENNAS AND ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPAGATION ING-INF/02 10

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  90316 - ANTENNAS ING-INF/02 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni
 		The module provides knowledge and skills concerning antennas, with reference to both their working principles and their use in different applicative fields. The following main topics will be addressed. Fundamentals of electromagnetic radiation and antenna parameters. Linear antennas, aperture antennas, reflector antennas, printed antennas. Antenna Arrays. MIMO systems for multimedia communications. Smart and reconfigurable antennas. Wide band antennas for high–speed internet links. Antenna systems for industrial, civil and biomedical applications.

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  90317 - ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPAGATION ING-INF/02 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni
 		The module provides knowledge and skills concerning guided electromagnetic propagation, with reference to both their working principles and their use in different applicative fields. The following main topics will be addressed. Fundamentals of guided propagation. Longitudinal-transverse decompositions of Maxwell's equations, TEM, TE, TM modes, rectangular waveguides, higher TE and TM modes, operating bandwidth, power transfer an attenuation, group velocity in waveguides, reflection model of waveguide propagation, dielectric slab guides. Oblique incidence and Snel's laws, Zenneck surface wave, surface plasmons. Plasmonic waveguides, plasmonic and oscillatory modes, MDM and DMD configurations. RFID technology, active and passive RFID tags, plasmonic RFID.

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2° anno (coorte 2019/2020)

Codice Disciplina Settore CFU Tipologia/Ambito Obiettivi Formativi Propedeuticità
60279 COGNITIVE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS ING-INF/03 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni
 		The course aims at providing theory and techniques for architectural and functional design of interactive cognitive dynamic systems. Topics are related to data fusion, mutilevel bayesian state estimation and their application to cognitive video and radio domains. Project based learning allows students to acquire design capabilities in the field.

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66175 MASTER THESIS 18 18 CFU PROVA FINALE Per la Prova Finale
 		The Master thesis consists of a report on a specific topic investigated under the tutoring of one or more professors. It should provide evidence of the student's ability to carry out independent investigations and to present the results in a clear and systematic form.

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66262 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 2 2 CFU ALTRE ATTIVITA' Tirocini Formativi e di Orientamento
 		The activity is meant to be developed as a preparatory work for the realization of the master thesis. Its target is providing the students with a methodological and scientific approach, to enable a research and development vision toward the final Master of Science project.

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90144 QUALITY OF SERVICE AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION ING-INF/03 10

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  90145 - QUALITY OF SERVICE OVER HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS ING-INF/03 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni
 		The course is aimed at providing the know-how to design and manage advanced interworking technology and investigate technological challenges, still object of research both industrial and academic, as well as QoS over Heterogeneous Networks, Software Defined Networking (SDN), and Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN).The course is aimed at providing the know-how to design and manage advanced interworking technology and investigate technological challenges, still object of research both industrial and academic, as well as QoS over Heterogeneous Networks, Software Defined Networking (SDN), and Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN).

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  90146 - NETWORK PERFORMANCE EVALUATION ING-INF/03 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni
 		• Methods of network performance evaluation: analytical models, simulation, experimental measurements • Packet-level and flow-level models • Elementary queueing theory: elements of a queue, statistics of input and service, general results on infinite- and finite-buffer queues, Little’s Theorem, Kendall’s notation • Markovian queues: Poisson arrivals, exponential distribution, stationary distribution of general birth-death systems; M/M/1, M/M/1/K, M/M/m/m, M/M/m • Discrete- and continuous-time Markov Chains • M/G/1 and Pollaczek-Kinchin formula; Pareto distribution; M/G/1 with vacations; priority queueing • Networks of queues: Jackson networks, independence hypothesis, Kleinrock’s delay formula

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90141 IMAGE PROCESSING AND RECOGNITION ING-INF/03 10

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  90142 - DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING ING-INF/03 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni
 		In this course the basic techniques of digital signal and image processing are presented and their application to signals and images from real domains are discussed: • Digital Image Representation and Color Spaces • Image Filtering (linear and non-linear) • Edge Detection • Image Segmentation • Texture Analysis • Mathematical Morphology • Moments and Hough Transform • Adaptive Processing, Multiscale, Data Fusion

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  90143 - IMAGE AND PATTERN CLASSIFICATION ING-INF/03 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni
 		In this course several statistical pattern recognition techniques are presented and their application to images from real domains are discussed: • Decision Theory • Supervised Probability Density Estimate • Feature Reduction • Linear and Nonlinear Classifiers (k-nn, SVMs, NNs). • Error Probability of Supervised Classifiers • Unsupervised Classifiers (Clustering) • Fuzzy Classifiers • Contextual image classification

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90564 INTERNET APPLICATIONS ING-INF/03 5 5 CFU A SCELTA A Scelta dello Studente
 		The course is aimed at providing the know-how to understand, design and manage the main Internet applications. The aim is to provide details of each single analysed protocol so to allow a full comprehension and a future possible design of solutions acting at application layer. After a revision of how the applications communicate with UDP and TCP protocols, the course will focus on DHCP, DNS, TELNET, FTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, SNMP, and HTTP.

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90566 REMOTE SENSING AND SATELLITE IMAGES 5

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  90567 - REMOTE SENSING ING-INF/02 2.5 2.5 CFU A SCELTA A Scelta dello Studente

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  90568 - SATELLITE IMAGES ING-INF/03 2.5 2.5 CFU A SCELTA A Scelta dello Studente

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90622 CYBER SECURITY ING-INF/05 5 5 CFU AFFINI O INTEGRATIVE Attività Formative Affini o Integrative

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104850 5G, CLOUD AND IOT ING-INF/03 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni
 		The course aims at introducing the 5G radio mobile networks and IoT technologies from the point of view of the functional architecture, the definition of protocols and standard procedures, and the AmI related functions.

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