SOI Sochool of Internet Asia Project

I. "Digital wireless communication basics"
by Dr. Jun Takei, Intel Corporation
16:30-18:00 JST / 8th(Tue), 9th(Wed), 15th(Tue), 16th(Wed) in January 2008

Wireless communication has became one of the most important communication infrastructure in our life. This course will cover basic wireless communication technology and latest usage cases such as wireless LAN and mobile communications with its technology. Students will learn the basic technology that support current digital wireless communication technology and the mechanism.

• basic understanding of the electrical engineering (undergraduate EE level)
• basic understanding of the wireless communication system such as WLAN and cellar system etc.

II. "Location Information and the Internet"
by Dr. Nobuo Kawaguchi, Associate Professor , Nagoya University
16:30 - 18:00 JST / 21st(Mon), 23rd(Wed), 28th(Mon), 30th(Wed) in January 2008

To enable context aware services, location information plays an important role. However, it is not easy to obtain location information so far. GPS is one of a key device to utilize location information. But it does not works well in indoor environment and also expensive for ordinal user. In this lecture, WiFi location estimation technology is introduced. One can estimate the location by using pre-acquired unique ID and location of WiFi access points. WiFi location system is cheap and works well in both outdoor and indoor environment. Other Internet technologies such as P2P computing and plug-and-play technologies are also introduced in the lecture.

III. "Toward IP multicast deployment"
by Dr. Hitoshi Asaeda, Keio University
16:30 - 18:00 JST / 4th(Mon), 5th(Tue), 11th(Mon), 12th(Tue) in February 2008

IP multicast is highly advantageous for high quality streaming applications and future needs in the Internet. Yet, it is generally recognized that IP multicast routing protocols are fairly complex and non-scalable and require additional maintenance and operational costs for the administrations. In this lecture, the complexities of traditional multicast communication are clarified and possible solutions using the one-to-many multicast communication model called Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) is explained. While SSM gives great advantages for the IP multicast deployment, it requires additional functions to fulfill the demand. This lecture also details the necessary components the network operators and the application programers need to know, and discusses the future direction.

IV. "Introduction to Internet Measurement"
by Dr. Kenjiro Cho IIJ Research Laboraory
16:30 - 18:00 JST / 19th(Tue), 20th(Wed), 26th(Tue), 27th(Wed) in February 2008

Measurement is essential to understand the current Internet as well as to design future Internet. Still, there are many challenges in Internet measurement because of its diverse and dynamic nature with statistical properties that are considerably different from conventional communication media. This course will introduce Internet measurement covering topics such as tools, methods, modeling and visualization.

• basic understanding of the Internet architecture.
• knowledge of Internet management tools such as ping, traceroute and tcpdump.
• basic knowledge of linear algebra, probability and statistics, which will help you analyze and interpret data properly.