ECS2340

Telecommunications

B A Tonkin

2 points
* 13 lectures, 6 tutorials and 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