ITU Centre of Excellence elearning course: “Wireless and Mobile Broadband Internet”, 18 November – 15 December 2014
ITU Centre of Excellence elearning course: “Wireless and Mobile Broadband Internet”, 18 November – 15 December 2014
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Centre of Excellence (CoE) node at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, will conduct eLearning course on
“Wireless and Mobile Broadband Internet”
from 18 November to 15 December 2014,
within the framework of ITU Centre of Excellence Network for Europe, and it will be delivered through the ITU Academy: http://academy.itu.int/moodle/.
Head/Coordinator of ITU Centre of Excellence at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies in Skopje is Prof. Dr. Toni Janevski (tonij@feit.ukim.edu.mk).
This course will focus on Wireless and Mobile Broadband Internet from technology, regulation and business aspects. It will cover the Internet architectures, IPv4 and IPv6 fundamental technologies, mobility aspects of convergence to all-IP wireless networks, as well as standardized wireless broadband technologies WiFi (IEEE 802.11n, IEEE 802.11ac) and WiMAX (IEEE 802.16). Further, the course will include 4G mobile broadband Internet technologies - LTE/LTE-Advanced and Mobile WiMAX 2, including Evolved Packet Core (EPC) and 4G radio access technologies, ITU spectrum management for the mobile broadband, as well as business challenges and opportunities for 4G broadband. Also, it will cover IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), QoS-enabled mobile VoIP and mobile IPTV, mobile Over-The-Top (OTT) services for VoIP (Skype, Viber), video services (Youtube), and non-real-time OTT services (social networking, cloud services, application ecosystems), location-based services, as well as regulation and business aspects. Finally, the course will incorporate the developments and key technologies for 5G as next generation of mobile broadband, including HetNet architectures, Femto and small cells, multi-RAN (Radio Access Networks) mobile terminals, the development toward personal user-centric mobile Internet accompanied with Mobile Cloud Computing and future mobile broadband services, as well as business and regulation challenges for future mobile broadband Internet.
This course is targeted at managers, engineers and employees from regulators, government organisations, telecommunication companies and academia, who are interested in understanding, implementation and regulation of Wireless and Mobile Broadband Internet, including technologies, standardization, regulation and content. Other institutions and individuals that are dedicated in building their capacity related to Wireless and Mobile Broadband Internet are also welcome to participate.
For formal Letter of Invitation for the ITU CoE elearning course all interested parties should contact Prof. Dr. Toni Janevski (tonij@feit.ukim.edu.mk), latest by 17 November 2014.
