Telecommunications
B A Tonkin
2 points * 13 lectures, 6 tutorials, 6 laboratory hours * Second semester * Clayton * Prerequisites: ECS2310
Objectives The student is expected to develop a basic understanding of the structure, components, properties and performance of telecommunication networks as a framework and context for further studies of telecommunication networks, systems and technologies.
Synopsis 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 Examination (1.5 hours) * Laboratory work
Recommended texts
Stallings W ISDN and broadband ISDN with frame relay and ATM 3rd edn, Prentice-Hall, 1995
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