Telecommunication Networks

Standardisation. Information types. Information transfer modes (analogue, digital, circuit/packet oriented, synchronous, asynchronous, connectionless, connection-oriented, and signalling). Quality of service (errors, loss, delays, delay variation). Telecommunication traffic (traffic theory, lossy systems, queuing systems). Information type and transmission mode. Circuit emulation. Architectures of telecommunication systems (network, topology, protocol stack, communication planes). Multiplexing/demultiplexing techniques (space, frequency, time, code division multiplex, statistical multiplex, packet multiplex, examples). Addressing. Switching and routing. Medium access control (MAC methods classification). Fundamentals of flow/congestion control.Queues and scheduling algorithms. Technologies/services convergence. A more detailed description of some typical transfer systems and telecommunication networks (data transmission through voice networks, IP networks, VoIP).

Understanding of different information transfer modes, telecommunication system architectures, and switching/routing methods used in telecommunication networks. Understanding modern trends of network convergence.

Lectures and laboratory tutorials, individual work.