PROGRAMMAZIONE DIDATTICA COORTE A.A. 2021/2022
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 2021/2022)

Codice Disciplina Settore CFU Tipologia/Ambito Obiettivi Formativi Propedeuticità
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
 		The students will learn a set of models and methods of Operations Research (linear mathematical programming models; integer programming methods; graphs and network flow models). They will be able to solve decision problems by applying the learnt models and using appropriate solution algorithms

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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 course 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 course provides knowledge and skills concerning antennas and 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 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. 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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104760 DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS I ING-INF/03 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni
 		The course is aimed at providing the bases of digital communications: the baseband and bandpass transmissions will be presented, discussed, and compared. 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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104852 MACHINE LEARNING FOR PATTERN RECOGNITION ING-INF/03 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni
 		In this course several Machine learning methods applied to pattern recognition are presented and their application to images from real domains are discussed: • Decision Theory • Supervised Probability Density Estimate • Feature Reduction • Linear and Nonlinear Classifiers (MDM, k-nn, SVMs) • Neural Networks and Deep Learning • Accuracy of Supervised Classifiers • Unsupervised Classifiers (Clustering) • Fuzzy Classifiers • Contextual image classification

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5 CFU tra i seguenti insegnamenti:
103909 EU LAW AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES IUS/13 5 5 CFU A SCELTA A Scelta dello Studente
 		Provide technical students with the legal framework of Eu intervention in the sector they are approaching from a technical point of view. The interdisciplinary approach will empower graduates with new and useful skills for the job market and it will give students a greater awareness on the conseuqences deriving from the use and functioning (malfunctioning) of the technology.

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104631 FUNDAMENTALS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS ING-INF/03 5 5 CFU A SCELTA A Scelta dello Studente
 		The class aims at giving the students a review of the basic knowledge about signal theory, random phenomena, analog modulations, digital signal processing, and telecommunication networks. The specific objective is to enhance the initial preparation of the students on basic topics of fundamental relevance for the master course, increasing their opportunity to effectively exploit the advanced content of the other courses.

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2° anno (coorte 2021/2022)

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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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
 		• Definition of QoS, SLA (Service Level Agreement) and SLS (Service Level Specification). • Definition of heterogeneity. • QoS-oriented technologies: ATM, MPLS, IPv4, IPv6, user flow and traffic class identification • Integrated Services, Differentiated Services and DSCP Assignation, advantages and drawbacks, • Network control issues versus time: Traffic Identification, Traffic Shaping, introduction to Scheduling, CAC (Feasibility Region, Equivalent Bandwidth, Bandwidth Reservation), QoS Routing. • QoS over Heterogeneous Networks: concepts and problems, Horizontal and Vertical QoS Mapping, QoS Architectures, QoS Gateway, Relay Node and Relay Layer. • Software Defined Networking (SDN): introduction and aim, architecture, OpenFlow and Flow Table, conclusions and research activities • Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN): introduction and aim, architecture, Bundle Layer, CLA, conclusions and research activities

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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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104847 IMAGE PROCESSING AND REMOTE SENSING 10

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  104782 - 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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  104827 - REMOTE SENSING AND SATELLITE IMAGES ING-INF/02 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni
 		Remote Sensing — Based on the concepts ruling the generation and propagation of electromagnetic wave fields, the objective is to provide the students with basic knowledge about the fundamentals and basic definitions of remote sensing; passive remote sensing in the optical, microwaves, and infrared frequency bands; active remote sensing and radar imaging; instrumentation for remote sensing. Satellite Images — The objective is to provide the students with basic knowledge about past, current, and forthcoming space missions for Earth observation; computational methods for the display, the modeling, and the filtering of satellite imagery; change detection techniques for multitemporal data; and regression techniques for bio/geophysical parameter retrieval from remote sensing. In this framework, machine learning techniques rooted in the areas of ensemble learning, neural networks, and kernel machines will be discussed as well.

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104770 SECURITY, 5G AND IOT 10

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  104773 - 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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  104781 - CYBER SECURITY ING-INF/05 5 5 CFU AFFINI O INTEGRATIVE Attività Formative Affini o Integrative
 		The class aims at giving the students the basic knowledge about the main aspects and technologies involved in the network and telecommunication security, including short summaries about privacy issues, blockchain technologies, and the audit and risk assessment procedures. Although the most substantial part of the course is focused on the network and telecommunication security, most of the introductory concepts and techniques included in this course are relevant also for the computer security contest, which is, in any case, briefly introduced and discussed too.

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104761 DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS II ING-INF/03 5 5 CFU CARATTERIZZANTI Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni
 		The course will provide the bases of techniques for transmitting analog signals and for protecting data in digital communications. Specifically, linear block codes and convolutional codes will be covered, as well as basics of Pulse Code Modulation. The aim is to furnish an adequate knowledge to understand the main components to improve the reliability of modern digital telecommunication systems.

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104778 INTERNET PROGRAMMING AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS ING-INF/03 5

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  104779 - INTERNET PROGRAMMING ING-INF/03 2.5 2.5 CFU A SCELTA A Scelta dello Studente
 		The course is aimed at providing the bases of inter-process communication (IPC) under an Unix operating system: the main system calls for controling the processes and the socket application programming interfaces (APIs) will be covered. The goal is to give the students an adequate knowledge needed to write client-server applications which are at the base of almost all Internet appliances.

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  104780 - MULTIMEDIA SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS ING-INF/03 2.5 2.5 CFU A SCELTA A Scelta dello Studente
 		The course is aimed at providing machine learning basic and advanced techniques for data driven signal processing models to be used within autonomous systems design. In particular, perception and control modules in autonomous systems rely more and more on signal processing approaches whose parametrization can be learned from observing multimedia heterogeneous signals produced by the artificial system while performing specific tasks. The course analyses data acquisition and processing tradeoffs between edge and cloud resources on the basis of real-time, computational and energy consumption requirements. Specific attention will be devoted to high dimensional data processing on the edge (with real practical examples in Python), showing how deep learning approaches can be adapted and optimized for working with limited computational capabilities.

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104851 SOFT SKILLS 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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