ICT Innovation, Internet Technology and Architecture (ITA) – (M.Sc.)

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Internet Technology and Architecture (ITA) specialisations in the second year

User-Centric Networking - UPMC

UPMC offers a specialisation in user-centric networking with courses in advanced routing and switching, network security, large networks, QoS and multimedia networks, digital communications, network management and traffic control. The focus will be on offering a complete and consistent vision of networking architectures and technologies both in wired and wireless/mobile environments, at access and core networks. This programme will aim to provide a rigorous theoretical knowledge and understanding of current issues as well as detailed practical experience of advanced networking technologies and architectures The objective is to respond to the strong industry demand of high level network engineers and specialists. This programme in essence is thought out to make the students aware of the requirements, constraints, and evolutions that the networking industry has to cope with; it naturally trains them to be destined for a high level industrial career, particularly in the field of research and innovation.

Internet Technologies - TU Berlin

The Internet is a social phenomenon that has changed, and continues to change how humans communicate, businesses work, how emergencies are handled, the military operates, etc. It has redefined expectations about how interactions between humans, computers and humans, and between computers function. Without question, almost all major industrial sectors take advantage of the Internet. This includes software companies such as Microsoft, Google, and SAP, as well as more traditional manufacturing companies (including the automotive industry), service providers (including banks and insurance companies), as well as the entertainment industry. Therefore we need an in depth understanding of the technology underlying the Internet as well as on developing solutions for improving the current network to address challenges such as mobility, quality of experience, security, and reliability.

Communication System Design and Development - KTH Royal Institute of Technology

KTH offers a specialization track of the EIT core master onCommunication system design and development. The core of the track isthe Communication system design course. The objective of the course isto offer the students an opportunity to learn about advanced emergingtechnologies and the associated market and business development byworking in projects where specialist knowledge from differentdisciplines is blended.The project is guided by an interdisciplinary teaching team andrepresentatives from industry, and involves students from differentprograms and a few from different universities. In addition to thedesign course, the track offers related theoretical courses andcourses on network system services.

Ubiquitous Networking and Computing - UNS

The courses in this program provide basic and specialization skills in the area and at the frontier of advanced networking and distributed middleware and applications: The program encompasses: Network architectures and protocols and their evolution, Performance evaluation of networks, Networking and telecommunication algorithms, Peer-to-peer networking and underlying distributed algorithms, Middleware for ubiquitous and grid/cloud computing, application-level security and intrusion detection, Network on Chip. This program will provide the training for qualified specialists who will be able to respond to the strong industry demand for software engineers, information system designers, and technical analysts and advisers. It will also prepare candidates to undertake further investigation and research into ubiquitous networking and computing.

Wireless and Mobile Internet Access - UNITN

The objective of the track will be to offer a complete and effective vision of the wireless access technologies to the Internet, to answer to the relevant demand for trained engineers and (freelance) professionals in enabling seamless mobile access to Internet services a reality. The specificity of Trento is due to its territory, which being partitioned in several valleys strongly demands the usage of wireless access technologies to avoid digital divide and enable broadband access, and by the availabilty of a regional wireless / optical testbed, which covers all the Province of Trento with hundreds of kilometers of fibers and hotspots, as well as local testbeds (i.e. indoor/outdoor wireless mesh networking testbed, software-defined radio lab platform) for development of real Internet prototypes and services - possibly involving directly the citizenship of the Province.

Internet of Things - Institut Telecom/Telecom Bretagne

With the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the development of Machine-to-Machine communications the number of interconnected devices is expected to explode and to reach many billions by the end of the decade. Such evolution of the Internet opens the way to imagining a large panel of new services, especially in the transport domain, but also raises several technical hurdles that have to be addressed: energy issues both in the terminal side and in the infrastructure; scalability issues for traffic management, QoS management, routing, addressing; heterogeneity of technologies; radio spectrum management (as many of such devices will be wirelessly connected to the network). Furthermore, new business models should be envisioned to foster the development of innovative services. The objectives of this specialization are to provide both technical and practical knowledge to students to make them able to address these challenges.

Summer & Winter Schools and Camps

All students take part in an EIT ICT Master School kick-off and a joint summer programme. Summer and winter schools support each individual study programme with a multidisciplinary and international dimension, and create a clear EIT ICT Labs joint touch to our education. A set of thematic oriented camps with integrated technical and business focus are organized in co-operation with research and business activities. They summer and winter schools bring together various stakeholders in our eco-system at EIT ICT Labs. Integrated competitions and camps on innovation aspects provide focused hands-on experience for our students, young faculty and post-docs.

Funding details

For the most highly ranked admitted students (as a minimum 30%), we will provide fee waivers. EIT ICT Labs has also reserved funding for scholarships covering personal expenses on the level of 9000 Euro per year and student, however a formal decision by the European Commission is pending in this matter.