Summer 2015: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:00-9:15, LT 410
Text: there is no official primary text. The basic networking concepts are covered in my free online book, An Introduction to Computer Networks. Additional online readings will be assigned as necessary.
General course groundrules are
here. Exams will count for between 70% to 80% of your grade, with homework
and programs making up the rest. The midterm will be Thursday, July
23. The final will be Thursday, August 6, at our usual class time.
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What is telecommunications? How is it different from data
communications?
Characteristics of voice traffic: minimal delay, even smaller variation in
delay, reservations
POTS; circuit switching
Connecting exchanges
Long lines, physical transmission issues
Digitization; encoding of voice
Phone switches; phone features; Asterisk
TDM, FDM (note that there are some subtle encoding issues)
SONET
Basics of packet switching
Basics of routing and TCP/IP
ATM
Congestion management
Cellular phones
Wireless data
CDMA/GSM/LTE
1: Telecom basics, Asterisk intro
2: Network basics, digitized sound
3: More PBX features, Digital signal processing
4: Basics of transmission
5: Transmission encoding and modulation; Multiplexing (analog
and digital)
6: DS-lines and SONET; call setup; trunk reservations; trunk
routing; switching, Clos switching; SS7
7: SIP, SDP, RTP, RTCP
8: Intro to virtual circuits and ATM
9: Cellular, CDMA, fading
10: More ATM, with token-bucket filtering
11: real-time Internet protocols (RSVP, DS)
12: final exam