S-38.110 Telecommunication Switching Technology I

3 study weeks = 40h lectures, 6-7 exercises lectures and computer aided learning

This course is replaced by S-38.120 Telecommunication Switching Technology from Spring 2002 onwards.

Please note, that all the lectures and exercises are given in Finnish only. Some of the lecture materials and all of the exercise materials are provided in English.

Prerequisites

S-38.118:Principles in Telecommunications Technology or the equivalent theoretical and practical skills.

Enrolling

Obligatory enrolling has to be done by using WWW-TOPI. If you do not have access to WWWTopi, please contact the HUT computing centre. If you still can not enroll via WWWTopi send your HUT study id, name and department to the course assistant.

Personnel

The lectures are given by the teacher in charge of the course, Prof. Raimo Kantola and the exercises are given by the course assistant, Mika.Ilvesmäki. Due to unforeseen demand the course assistant has an reception hour on tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Emails sent to the assistant concerning this course are answered on tuesdays from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

Lectures and exercises

Lectures and exercises will start in January 2001, and will continue according to the schedule as follows:

On mondays from 10am to noon in lecture hall S3
On thursdays from 2pm to 4pm in lecture hall S2
A part of the course requires to sit through a Computer Aided Learning -sessions at the student laboratory. Details will be available later.

The contents of the course

The outline of the course:

Signaling
- Basics of signaling: R2, ISDN, CCS#7
- Advanced signaling: V5, MAP, H.323
PCM
Switching matrixes
Reliability issues in telecommunication networks
The synchronization of the telecommunication networks
Excursions and other happenings
- To be announced later

The main contents of the lectures and exercises are available here.

The exercise routine

The successful passing of the course requires the application of theoretical and practical skills presented in the lectures. This is done by doing exercises. The student should return the exercises so that they can be graded. To be able to take the course it is required that at least 16 of the 24 exercise questions are correctly solved. If the student has correctly solved 16 exercise questions, he/she will get 2 additional points to the examination. More points may be earned by solving more exercises. If all of the 24 exercises are correctly solved the student earns 6 additional points to the examination.

Please note that the exercise points you receive during this spring are only valid as long as there are examinations given based on the lectures of spring 2001. In effect, this means that the last opportunity to utilize the points will be on January 2002 with the last examination on the course based on spring 2001 lectures. If you haven't used your points by January 2002 you must participate in the exercises again.

The participation to the exercise lectures is not obligatory, although it is recommended. However, the exercises are given in Finnish while all of the exercise material is provided in English.

The exercises should be returned before the start of the exercise lecture to the box with the course code (s-38.110) marked under the laboratory notice board on G-wing 2nd floor. Return of the exercises via e-mail is also accepted, although the student himself is responsible for the timely delivery of the exercise answers. Please, note that the exercises have to be returned before the exercise starts.

There will be six exercise lectures in total:

Date Topic (& questions) Other
25.1.2001 PCM, in Postscript-format General exercise details, Answers
8.2.2001 Switching I, in Postscript-format Answers
19.2.2001, Note the day: Monday Switching II, in Postscript-format Answers (ps)
8.3.2001 Reliability I and questions in pdf-format Answers and in pdf-format.
19.3.2001, Note the day: Monday Reliability II and questions in pdf-format Laplace-transforms, Answers and in pdf-format
5.4.2001 Packet networks and delay and in pdf-format Answers and in pdf-format
26.4.2001 Extra exercise round and in pdf-format -
Due to software problems most of the exercises will be available only in postscript-format.

Date	Topic (& questions)	Other
25.1.2001	PCM, in Postscript-format	General exercise details, Answers
8.2.2001	Switching I, in Postscript-format	Answers
19.2.2001, Note the day: Monday	Switching II, in Postscript-format	Answers (ps)
8.3.2001	Reliability I and questions in pdf-format	Answers and in pdf-format.
19.3.2001, Note the day: Monday	Reliability II and questions in pdf-format	Laplace-transforms, Answers and in pdf-format
5.4.2001	Packet networks and delay and in pdf-format	Answers and in pdf-format
26.4.2001	Extra exercise round and in pdf-format	-

Material

In addition to the course lecture material (slides, partly in Finnish), the course material required is covered in:

Joseph Y. Hui: Switching and traffic theory for integrated broadband networks chapters 1-5.
Roger L. Freeman: Telecommunications System Engineering 3rd ed. Chapters 4, 8, 9, 13 and 16.The foreign students will also read chapter 15 as an introduction to ATM.
Syed R. Ali: Digital Switching Systems, System Reliability and Analysis, pages 147-164
Alex Gillespie: Access networks, Technology and V5 Interfacing
The CAL-manuals of the LM Ericsson Signaling software

The lecture material (slides, partly in Finnish) and answers to the exercises (everything in English) will also be delivered as "prujus" via Otapaino.

Course requirements

To get credits (and a grade) from this course,

Successfully solve at least 16 of the 24 exercise questions.
the final examination of the course has to be taken and passed on acceptable level. The maximum for the examination is 30 points out of which approximately 50% is required for succesful completion. Remember that your exercise points are in effect here.

Possible questions for the final examination are available. Note, that these questions are from Spring 1999.

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