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Ukončeno v akademickém roce 2021/2022

Telecommunication Networks

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 440-2202/02
Abbreviation TS
Course title Telecommunication Networks
Credits 8
Coordinating department Department of Telecommunications
Course coordinator Ing. Petr Machník, Ph.D.

Osnova předmětu

Lectures:
1) Telecommunication networks attributes, communication model, signaling, methods of signal switching.
2) RM OSI and its layers. TCP/IP protocol model and its layers, IP, TCP, UDP and RTP. Network management system, telecommunication management network.
3) LAN networks - LAN protocol stack, media access methods in LANs, network topologies, Ethernet.
4) WAN networks - Frame Relay, traffic management in Frame Relay, ATM, ATM protocol model.
5) Transport networks - PDH (Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy), SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy), SONET (Synchronous Optical Network), DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing), used network devices.
6) IP WAN networks, pure IP WAN networks, HDLC and PPP, leased lines. MPLS technology.
7) Internet - structure of Internet. Secure transport services - IPsec, SSL, VPN. VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technology. Cloud computing.
8) Signaling in telecommunication networks - CCS7, signaling in ATM, ISDN, GSM, VoIP.
9) Access networks (conceptions) - ISDN, xDSL, DOCSIS, DVB-RCS, IPTV, FTTx, PON.
10) Wireless networks (conceptions) - WiFi, Bluetooth, WiMAX, Zigbee, DECT.
11) and 12) Mobile technologies of the 1th a 2nd generation - NMT, AMPS, GSM, PDC, IS-95.
13) and 14) Mobile technologies of the 3rd a 4th generation - IMT-2000, CDMA 2000, W-CDMA UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, Rel.99-Rel.10 SAE/EPS, LTE. Future and visions in mobile networks (Rel.11 and Rel.12).


Exercises:
1) Safety in laboratories. Basic information about the subject and its classification.
2) Multimedial presentation of RM OSI.
3) Laboratory work - xDSL technology.
4) Laboratory work - WiFi technology.
5) Laboratory work - VoIP technology.
6) Laboratory work - Computer networks.
7) Laboratory work - GSM technology.
8) Laboratory work - Access networks.
9) Test nr.1.
10) Laboratory work - Passive optical networks.
11) Laboratory work - Testing of mobile phones.
12) Laboratory work - Throughput and delay measurement in data networks.
13) Test nr. 2.
14) Reserve term for tests and labs.

Projects:
Protocol from the measurement of voice quality in VoIP.
Protocol from the testing of mobile phones.

E-learning

Povinná literatura

MACHNÍK, Petr, MICHALEK, Libor. Telecommunication Networks. Ostrava: Vysoká škola báňská - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2011.
OLIFER, Natalia, OLIFER, Victor. Computer Networks: Principles, Technologies and Protocols for Network Design. Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, 2006. 973 s. ISBN 0470869828.

Doporučená literatura

BATES, R. J. Broadband telecommunications handbook. McGraw-Hill Professional, 2002. ISBN 0-07-139851-1.
MIR, Nader F. Computer and communication networks. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2015. ISBN 9780133814743 .