Switching Systems

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	440-2317/01
Abbreviation	SS
Course title	Switching Systems
Credits	4
Coordinating department	Department of Telecommunications
Course coordinator	prof. Ing. Miroslav Vozňák, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction to Switching Systems
2. Spatial switching, Clos condition and design of nonblocking network. Switching Fabric
3. Time switching, complex switching structures
4. Digital network signaling and interfaces
5. Session Initiation Protocol and Session Description Protocol
6. SIP transactions and dialogs, SIP message parsing
7. Queuing theory problems in switching systems and Kendall`s classification
8. Network traffic modeling
9. QoS vs. QoE, quality of real-time services in IP networks
10. Multimedia services quality, subjective and objective methods of quality measurement
11. Software Ddefined Networks (SDN), OpenFlow, concepts and deployment. OpenSwitch and Mininet
12. SDN Controllers and their use, OpenStack
13. M2M communication systems in relation to SDN

Literature

[1] Bhat, U. N. "An Introduction to Queueing Theory: Modeling and Analysis in Applications (Statistics for Industry and Technology)", 2nd ed., Birkhauser, 2015.
[2] Goransson, P. "Software Defined Networks, Second Edition: A Comprehensive Approach 2nd Edition". Morgan Kaufmann, 2016.

Advised literature

[1] Raake, A. “Speech Quality of VoIP: Assessment and Prediction”, Wiley, 2006.
[2] Johnson, A. B. “SIP: Understanding the Session Initiation Protocol, Fourth Ed”, Artech, 2009.
[3] Blokdyk, G. "IMS IP multimedia subsystem: A Step-By-Step Tutorial". CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017.

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