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Terminated in academic year 2009/2010

Telecommunication Networks

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 454-0510/01
Abbreviation TS
Course title Telecommunication Networks
Credits 8
Coordinating department Department of Telecommunications
Course coordinator Ing. Petr Machník, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
1) Telecommunication networks parameters, communication model, signaling, methods of signal switching.
2) RM OSI and its layers, management system of RM OSI, TMN. TCP/IP protocol model and its layers, IP, TCP, UDP and RTP.
3) LAN networks - LAN protocol stack, media access methods in LANs, network topologies, Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI.
4) WAN networks - X.25, Frame Relay, traffic management in Frame Relay, ATM, ATM protocol model.
5) Transmission networks - PDH (Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy), SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy), SONET (Synchronous Optical Network), DWDM (Dense Wawe 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.
8) Signaling in telecommunication networks - CCS7, signaling in ATM, ISDN, GSM, VoIP.
9) Access networks (conceptions) - ISDN, xDSL, DOCSIS, DVB-RCS, IPTV, FTTx.
10) Wireless networks (conceptions) - WiFi, Bluetooth, WiMAX, Zigbee, DECT.
11) a 12) Mobile technologies of the 1th a 2nd generation - NMT, AMPS, GSM, PDC, IS-95.
13) a 14) Mobile technologies of the 3rd a 4th generation - IMT-2000, CDMA 2000, W-CDMA UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, Rel.99-Rel.8
SAE/EPS, LTE. Future and visions in mobile networks (Rel.9 and Rel.10).


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

Projects:
Protocol from the measurement in VoIP.
Protocol from the measurement of mobile phones parameters.

Literature

Bates, R. J. Broadband telecommunications handbook. McGraw-Hill Professional, 2002. ISBN 0-07-139851-1.
OLIFER, Natalia, OLIFER, Victor. Computer Networks: Principles, Technologies and Protocols for Network Design. Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, 2006. 973 s. ISBN 0470869828.

Advised literature

No advised literature has been specified for this subject.