Internet Technologies and Applications (ITS 413)

Mobile IP
- IETF Mobile IP Standards: IP Mobility Support for IPv4 (RFC3344)
- Mobile IP at Network Sorcery
- Mobile IP by Debalina Ghosh published in ACM Crossroad magazine
- Understanding Mobile IPv6 from Microsoft (orig inal
- Introduction to Mobile IPv6 by the Cable Guy at Microsoft
NEMO
- The old IETF NEMO Working Group, including the NEMO Basic Support RFC 3963
- IPv6 Network Mobility published in the Cisco Internet Protocol Journal
MANETs
- IETF MANET Working Group, including RFCs for several MANET routing protocols
- A list of links to MANET pages provided by NIST

TCP

Lecture Notes

PDF | Video part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4

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A Fairer, Faster Internet Protocol. Simple overview of some problems of TCP in the Internet, especially with the use of P2P applications.
TCP Example spreadsheet (OpenOffice)

Lecture Notes

PDF | Video: part 1, part 2

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Lecture Notes

PDF | Video: part 1, part 2, part 3

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Codecs:
- List of voice vodecs from Voip-info.org and from Henning Schulzrinne
- Voice over IP - per call bandwidth for different codecs and bit rates. A simple comparison from Cisco
- Sample WAV files illustrating difference among sampling rates and codecs
Digital Television - short and simple (but slightly old) explanation of Digital TV
Traffic and Costs of IPTV: interview with telecommunications company identified the expected traffic and associated costs of running IPTV
Video users: ranking of video streaming sites by number of downloads and users

Lecture Notes

P2P | BitTorrent | Video: part 1, part 2, part 3

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BitTorrent Specification: the official description of the BitTorrent Protocol. However, it is rather informal - clients may implement some parts in different ways. It includes a short description of the choking algorithm. The main wiki also provides a list of BitTorrent applications and extensions.
Ipoque: German company that reports statistics of Internet usage and applications, including P2P applications
The YouTube effect: HTTP traffic now eclipses P2P. Statistics from North American users showing the split of application traffic.
P2P traffic drops as streaming video grows in popularity More statistics on Internet traffic, including the difference between P2P and streaming traffic.
Shocking: New Facts About P2P and Broadband Usage. Statistics from Arbor Networks about the distribution of traffic amongst users and the split between P2P and streaming.