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Terminated in academic year 2023/2024

Communication Networks I

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 440-2207/02
Abbreviation KS I
Course title Communication Networks I
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Telecommunications
Course coordinator Ing. Petr Machník, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
1) Telecommunication networks attributes, communication model, signaling, methods of signal switching.
2) OSI reference model and its layers.
3) TCP/IP protocol model and its layers, IP, TCP, and UDP.
4) LAN networks - LAN protocol stack, media access methods in LANs, network topologies, Ethernet.
5) Transport networks - PDH (Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy), SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy), DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing), used network devices.
6) IP WAN networks, pure IP WAN networks, HDLC and PPP, leased lines.
7) Internet - structure of Internet. Cloud computing.
8) Access networks (conceptions) - xDSL, DOCSIS.
9) Advanced technologies in the access networks - DVB-RCS, IPTV, FTTx, PON.
10) Wireless networks (conceptions) - WiFi, WiMAX, DECT. GPS.
11) Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN) - Bluetooth, Zigbee, ANT+.
12) Mobile technologies of the 2nd generation - GSM. Mobile technologies of the 3rd generation - IMT-2000, CDMA 2000, W-CDMA UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA.
13) Mobile technologies of the 4th generation - Rel.99-Rel.10 SAE/EPS, LTE. Future and visions in mobile networks (Rel.11 and Rel.12).
14) Data standards in the health care - HL7, ISO/IEC 11073.


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) Test nr.1.
7) Laboratory work - Computer networks.
8) Laboratory work - GSM technology.
9) Laboratory work - Access networks.
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.

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

E-learning

Literature

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.

Advised literature

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 .