Learning Outcomes (continued)

Evaluate existing voice over IP and other related services (including presence, mobile presence, location-aware, context-aware, and other services)
Design and evaluate new SIP based services
Read the current literature at the level of conference papers in this area.
- While you may not be able to understand all of the papers in journals, magazines, and conferences in this area - you should be able to read 90% or more of them and have good comprehension. In this area it is especially important that develop a habit of reading the journals, trade papers, etc. In addition, you should also be aware of standardization activities, new products/services, and public policy in the area.
Demonstrate knowledge of this area both orally and in your writing.
- By writing a paper suitable for submission to conferences and journals in the area.

This course should prepare you for starting a thesis project in this area (for undergraduate students) or beginning a thesis or dissertation (for graduate students).

Transcript

[slide7] Be able to evaluate existing voice over IP systems and their services, including presence, mobile presence, and interestingly enough, location-aware and context-aware services. So we can start to build services that are aware of the user's context. So a student did a thesis a number of years ago to build basically a meeting detector. Right? If you think of a conference room, let's say it's a big conference table. There are ten people scheduled for the meeting. The first person arrives in the conference room. A phone call comes for them. What happens? You deliver it to their phone. What happens when the second person arrives? If a phone call comes for them, you deliver it. But if you're expecting three people for the meeting, and it's the time for the meeting to start, do you want to deliver the call to the third person when they come in the room? No. The three people are there for the meeting. The meeting is started. So the system can automatically detect the context and now, yes, redirect their call to, for instance, a voice over IP voicemail system. So how did he do that? Well, as you know, cameras aren't permitted here at KTH. So we don't have all the rooms equipped with cameras. But we can have thermal detectors and motion detectors. So what did he do? He set up a motion detector by the door, and there's a different signature depending on which way you pass the detector. He counted the number of people going in the room, counted the number of people leaving the room. Right? The difference between the two is the number of people in the room. He looked at their schedules, and the result is he could predict, are there enough people that now the meeting has really started? And that's an incredibly powerful service -- that if you didn't have a VoIP-like system behind it, you wouldn't easily be able to build. Design and evaluate new VoIP services. Because one of the most important things isn't the basic VoIP. That gives us a base. But it's building new services on top of it. Read the literature. And an important thing to get in the habit of, is reading vastly in the literature. Not just the journals, conferences, etc. But also to get in the habit of reading the trade papers. Reading the standards. So that you get a feel for what's happening in the area. And you'll also get a feel for what are the next things that are likely to happen in the area. And demonstrate your knowledge both orally and in writing. And the very best papers, of course, would hopefully be something that could turn into a thesis, or for graduate students into, of course, a dissertation or conference paper or journal paper.