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Course Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleNumber of ECTS Credits Allocated
440-2314/01Switching Systems 4 ECTS credits
Type of Course UnitChoice-compulsory
Level of Course UnitFirst Cycle
Year of StudyThird Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech, English
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
VOZ29doc. Ing. Miroslav Vozňák, Ph.D.
REZ106Ing. Filip Řezáč
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Understand the function of switching systems and used signalling.

Learning outcomes are set so that the students are able to identify and tasks in the field of coupling systems.
Recommended Optional Programme Components
Common optional components are not offered, students of special interest can participate in departmental activities or can arrange consulting hours with lecturer.
Course Contents
Lectures
1. Introduction to switching systems, their classification. Telephone device and power supply.
2. Analog systems, Strowger switch and crossbar switch.
3. Signalizace linková a registrová, K+MFC-R2, EM.
3. Link and register signaling, K+MFC-R2, EM.
4. Signaling in digital systems and networks DSS1, PSS1 and SS7.
5. Control of electronic switching systems, time and space switching. Multi-stage switching network. Network Synchronization.
6. 4G Switching systems, principles and architecture, services. Termination of subscriber lines in digital switching systems. Access interfaces and ISDN.
7. Fundamentals of queuing theory.
8. Classification of queue systems, Markov queuing system and evaluation of speech quality.
9. Internal processes of routers, function of switching processes and routing, components of routers, modul of switching network and path processing, packet processing.
10-11. Next generation network, general principles of NGN. Signalling protocols in NGN (SIP, H.323, MGCP).
12. IP Multimedia Substystems, architecture and functions. OpenIMS project.
13. Switching in mobile networks and openBTS project.
14. ITU-T E.164 Numbering and national numbering plan, number portability reference database.

Exercises:
1. The acquaintance with content and work in lab. W1
2. The analysis of register signaling MFC-R2. W3
3. The analysis of the signaling system DSS1. W4
4. The Signaling System no. 7. W6
5. The dimensioning of the switching systems. W8
6. SIP - The NGN signaling protocol. W9
7. Speech quality assesment using E-model. W11
8. OpenIMS. W12
9. OpenBTS. W13
10. Semestral test (max 10p), semestral project turning in (max. 10p), credit granting. W14

Laboratories:
1. The measurement of DTMF tones frequencies. W2
2. Laboratory project (DTMF, MFC-R2, DSS1). Scored - max. 10p. W5
3. The services of digital branches. Semestral project assignment. W7
4. PBX Asterisk. W10
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
CLARK, P.Martin: Networks and Telecommunications, 931 pages, JW&S, New York, 1999, ISBN 0-471-97346-7

Bellamy,G.: Digital telephony. John Wiley and Sons. New York, 2000.
Wilkinson,N. Next Generation Network Services. John Wiley & Sons, 2002, ISBN 978-0-471-48667-1.
Přednášky http://homel.vsb.cz/~voz29/ss.html.

VOZŇÁK,M. Spojovací systémy. Vysokoškolská skripta, 196 str.Vydavatel: VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2009, ISBN 978-80-248-1961-7
Recommended Reading:
Camarillo,G., The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). John Wiley & Sons, 2004, ISBN 978-0470871560.
Camarillo,G., The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). John Wiley & Sons, 2004, ISBN 978-0470871560.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials, Experimental work in labs
Assesment methods and criteria
Tasks are not Defined
Work placement(s)
Course does not contain work placement.

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