27 + 13 (2 + 2) Fall term | |
Lecturers | Prof. Timo O. Korhonen, p. 09-451-2351, Research Scientist Michael Hall, p. 09-451-2343 |
Course assistant | Research Scientist Mika.Nupponen, (tutorials) p. 09-451-5416,Research Scientist Yue Feng, (lecture diaries) p. 09-451-6222 |
Contents | Public Switched Telephone Network, ISDN and SDH, GSM and CDMA Mobile Networks, The Internet |
Bases of grading | 0,95 * Examination + 0,2
* lecture diary (optional)+ 0,15 tutorials
(optional).
Note! You will have to pass the exam! |
Course literature | Ericsson, Telia: Understanding
Telecommunications, Part II, ISBN 91-44-00214-9 (Studentlitteratur),
James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross: Computer Networking (2nd Ed.), Reference: A.S. Tanenbaum: Computer Networks (4th Ed., Prentice Hall) |
Prerequisites | S-72.350, S-72.420, S-72.227 (recommended) |
Homepage | http://www.comlab.hut.fi/opetus/423/ |
Timetable | Lectures are on Thursdays
14-16 in hall C (main building of HUT) and
tutorials on Wednesdays 14-16 in hall S1 / Thursdays 12-14 in hall S5. Register to the course by using the Topi system! |
Note | This course is intended primarily for second to fourth year students. The course is included to the curriculum of The International Master's Program in Telecommunication and is lectured in English. |
Page updated | 13.12.2002 |
Modern day telecommunications is established by using dedicated telecommunication networks. Probably the most familiar of them are the ordinary telephone network (Public Switched Telephone Network), the GSM (Global System for Mobile) and of course the Internet that is based on TCP/IP protocol suite. The 3rd generation UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System) that is based on CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) is an interesting topic of 2002 increasing mobile data rates orders of magnitude up to 2 Mbit/s enabling thus potentially true interactive mobile multimedia applications. Also the development of 4th generation networks is getting more and more attention and there are good possibilities that it will be launched in some countries even before the 3rd gen. due to its more flexible financial-structure and greater service adaptivity.
Objective of this course is to inspect and summarize
the major features of the today's most popular telecommunication networks
as well as the forthcoming ones, and to get oneself familiar to the related
standardization work established by ITU (International Telecommunications
Union), ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) and various
other worldwide standardization bodies. The focus of this course is in
the understanding of the network interface dynamics (connecting network
elements) and in the concise inspection of the inherent network topology
and network node functionalities. Lecture and tutorial handouts will be
available for downloading in this homepage.
Lecture Handouts
Introduction (ppt 1.54 Mb, html)
PSTN I/II (ppt 0.61 Mb, html)
PSTN II/II (ppt 2.04 Mb, html)
SS7 (ppt 0.23 Mb, html)
ATM (ppt 0.22 Mb, html)
ADSL (ppt 2.97 Mb)
GSM (ppt 0.25 Mb)
TETRA + DECT (ppt 0.15 Mb)
WLANs (ppt 1.68 Mb)
UMTS (ppt 0.33 Mb) see also http://130.233.158.46/eopetus/intro3g/start.htm
4G (ppt 1.83 Mb)
Internet part 1 (ppt 0.30 Mb)
Internet part 2 (ppt 0.38 Mb)
Exam
requirements (updated 22.11.2002)
Notes about practicalities of Lecture diaries:
Please find attached below some practical guides for your work with Lecture Diaries that we have found you should follow:
1) Firstly, course assistant will email each students
12 links, they should grade the diaries in
sequence once a week (Grading deadline is
the next Thursday from the lecture, so, within one week). This must be
done in the order defined in this email.
2) Deadline for submitting your own lecture diary is the next Tuesday (5 days) from the lectures. Deadline for the grading is the next Thursday from the lectures (7 days).
3) Email the lecture assistant if you can not grade, with the info of the links to the diaries you were supposed to grade.
4) Strictly follow the diary guide.
5) Grading and submitting 12 diaries gives you more points that just the required number of 8 because total Lecture diary points (max 5 p) are weighted by average_of_your_lecture_diary_grades*number_of_submitted_lecture_diaries/12
6) When a student makes his/her diary, he/she should place own name under the title.
7) For those students who use the password, be sure your passwords works.
8) Each student should make sure their webpage works and that it can be accessed also outside of HUT
9) List of registered person for the lecture
diary module can be inspected here.
Course Outline, Fall 2002
Introduction. The telecommunications service market
Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) I/II
Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) II/II
Integrate Services Digital Network (ISDN) and SS7
ATM, AAL2 and AAL5
Local loop internet access: modems and ADSL
Public land mobile networks: GSM, GPRS and TETRA
Local Area Radio Networks: DECT and IEEE 802.11
- networking
Public land mobile networks: 3G
Next Generation Networks (4G)
The Internet I/II
The Internet II/II
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