The syllabus is broken up into six two-week sections:
- Introduction
- Internet Telephony
- Quality of Service and Security
- The Public Switched Telephone Network
- Applications and Services
- Economics and Regulation
 
 
   
   - Section 1: Introduction, Tuesday, 27 May through Thursday, 5 June.
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   - Readings
   
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   Managing stored voice in the
       Etherphone system by Douglas Terry and Daniel Swinehart, ACM
       Tranactions on Computer Systems, February 1988 (v. 6, n. 1).
    
 
 Voice over IP by Upkar
       Varshney, Andy Snow, Matt McGivern, and Christi
       Howard, Communications of the ACM, January 2002 (v. 45, n. 1).
- Class notes
   
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   The Internet
    
 Voice as Data
- Quiz
   - Tuesday, 10 June
    
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   The answers.
    
 The grades.
 
- Section 2: Internet Telephony, Tuesday, 10 June through Thursday, 19 June.
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   - Readings
   
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   A 
       Voice Over IP Service Architecture for Integrated Communications by
       Daniele Rizzetto and Claudio Catania in IEEE Internet Computing, May-June 1999 (v.3,
       n. 3).
    
 
 The Session
       Initiation Protocol: Internet-Centric Signaling by Henning Schulzrinne
       and Jonathan Rosenberg, IEEE Communications Magazine, October,
       2000 (v. 38, n. 10).
- Class notes
   
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   The Real-Time Transport Protocol
    
 Session Management
 The Session Initiation Protocol
- Quiz
   - Tuesday, 24 June
    
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   The answers.
    
 The grades.
 
- Section 3: Quality of Service and Security, Tuesday, 24 June through Thursday, 3 July.
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   - Readings
   
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   Assessing
       Voice Quality in Packet-Based Telephony by Jan Janssen, Danny
       DeVieeschauwer, Maarten  Büchil and Guido Petit in
       IEEE Internet Computing, May-June 2002 (v. 6, n. 3).
    
 
 Holistic VoIP Intrusion Detection and Prevention System by Mohamed
       Nassar, Saverio Niccolini, Radu State and Thilo Ewald in
       Proceedings of the First International Conference on Principles,
       Systems and Applications of IP Telecommunications, 2007.
- Class notes
   
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   Quality of Service
    
 Implementing Quality of Service
- Quiz
   - Tuesday, 8 July
    
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   The answers.
    
 The grades.
 
- Section 4: The Public Switched Telephone Network, Tuesday, 8 July through Thursday, 17 July.
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   - Drop Day
   - Wednesday, 16 July
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- Readings
   
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   Integrating
       Internet Telephony Services by Wenyu Jiang, Jonathan Lennox, Sankaran
       Narayanan, Henning Schulzrinne, Kundan Singh, and Xiaotao Wu in
       IEEE Internet Computing, May-June 2002 (v. 6, n. 3). 
    
 
 Terminating Telephony Services on the Internet, by
       Vijay Gurbani and Xian-He Sun in IEEE/ACM Transactions on
       Networking, August 2004 (v. 12, n. 4).
- Class notes
   
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   The Telephone Network
    
 Telephone Network Signaling
- Quiz
   - Tuesday, 22 July
    
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   The answers.
    
 The grades.
 
- Section 5: Applications and Services, Tuesday, 22 July through Thursday, 30 July.
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   - Readings
   
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   Providing Emergency
       Services in Internet Telephony, by Henning Shulzrinne and Knarig
       Arabshian in IEEE Internet Computing, May-June 2002 (v. 6, n. 3).
    
 
 Programming
       Internet Telephony Services by Jonathan Rosenberg, Jonathan Lennox and
       Henning Schulzrinne in IEEE Internet Computing, May-June 1999
       (v. 3, n. 3).
- Presentations
   
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   B. Makavana, Tuesday, 22 July:
       Time Synchronization for
       VoIP Quality of Service by Hugh Melvin and Liam Murphy in IEEE Internet Computing,
       May-June 2002 (v. 6, n. 3). 
    
  
  
   
- Quiz
   - Tuesday, 5 August
    
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   The answers.
    
 The grades.
 
- Section 6: Economics and Regulation, Tuesday, 5 August through Thursday, 14 August.
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   - Last Day of Class
   - Thursday, 14 August
    
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- Readings
   
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   The economics of the Internet: Utility, utilization, pricing, and
       Quality of Service, Andrew Odlyzko, 7 July 1998.
    
 
 Tussle in
       Cyberspace: Defining Tomorrow’s Internet by David
       Clark, John Wroclawski, Karen Sollins and Robert Braden in IEEE/ACM
       Transactions on Networking, June 2005 (v. 13, n. 3).
- Presentations
   
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   S. Kumar, Thursday, 7 August:
       Real-Time Voice 
       Communication over the Internet Using Packet Path Diversity by Yi
       Liang, Eckehard Steinbach and Bernd Girod in Proceedings of the
       Ninth ACM International Conference on Multimedia.  
    
 
 S. Kulkarni, Tuesday, 12 August:
       Holistic VoIP Intrusion Detection and Prevention System by Mohamed
       Nassar, Saverio Niccolini, Radu State and Thilo Ewald in
       Proceedings of the First International Conference on Principles,
       Systems and Applications of IP Telecommunications.
 
 J. Hardy, Thursday, 14 August:
       Critical VPN security analysis and new approach for securing VoIP
       communications over VPN networks by Wafaa Bou Diab, Samir Tohme and
       Carole Bassil in Proceedings of the Third ACM Workshop on Wireless
       Multimedia Networking and Performance Modeling.
- Quiz
   - Thursday, 14 August
    
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   The answers.
    
 The grades.