Telecommunications
F J W Symons
2 points * 13 lectures, 6 tutorials and 6 laboratory hours * Second semester * Clayton * Prerequisites: ECS2310 (Circuit theory I)
Introduction to telecommunication networks as a framework and context for further studies of networks and their component subsystems: fundamental structures, functions, properties and performance of telecommunication networks; voice, video and data communications and their network performance requirements; coding, multiplexing, modulation, analog and digital transmission, transmission media; concepts of space and time division switching, circuit and packet switching; terminal and network signalling, common channel signalling, computer control; network performance, blocking, alternate routing, Erlang loss formula for dimensioning networks. Emerging networks and services.
Assessment
Examinations: 1.5 hours
Recommended texts
Stallings W ISDN and Broadband ISDN 2nd edn, Maxwell Macmillan, 1992