1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

EE754 Integrated Services Digital
Networks - - and BISDN
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12.5 credit points 4 hours per week average Hawthorn
Prerequisites: must be doing or have done EExxA and
EExxB Corequisites: nil Assessment: exam, assignment
and laboratory work.
A subject in the Master of Engineering by coursework
(Telecommunications and Computer Systems Engineering)
Objectives
To develop an understanding of the concepts of Integrated
Services Digital Networks (ISDN), and Broadband ISDN.
Content
ISDN: Concepts: ~rinciples, evolution, user interface,
objectives, benefits and services;
Architecture and standards;
Transmission: channels, subscriber loop, user access;
Protocols: architecture, connections, packet switched
calls, common channel signalling, link access protocol-
D, physical layer;
Frame Relay: Applications, architecture, user data, network
function.
Z' Congestion control;
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BISDN: Architecture, Asynchronous Transfer Mode
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protocols;
2 Virtual channels, virtual paths, control signalling;
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ATM standards, cells, header formats, error control;
ATM traffic characteristics, multimedia sources,
bandwidth on demand, aggregation;
Congestion control, connection admission control,
bandwidth assignment strategies.
SONET / SDH optical standards.
Recommended reading
Hiroshi, S., Teletrafic Technologies in ATM Networks. Boston,
Artech House, 1994
Stakngs, W, ISDNand B&ndISDN N.Y., Maunillan, 1992
Stallings, W, Data and Computer Communications. Fourth edn,
N.Y., Macmillan, 1994
EE755 Managing Telecommunications
Networks
12.5 credit points 4 hours per week average Hawthorn
Prerequisites: must be doing or have done E M and EEmB
Corequisites: nil Assercmmt: exam and mignmmts
A subject in the Master of Engineering by coursework
(Telecommunications)
Objectives
To develop an understanding of the issues involved in the
engineering management of telecommunications networks.
Content
Network routing and numbering, operator assistance;
quality management, QoS and network performance;
accounting and charging;
maintaining - the network;
managing network overload;
network economy measures;
standards;
setting up networks: architectures, building, extending,
replacing and procuring.
Recommended reading
Clark, MP., N& and T$ammrnunicarias, England, Wiley, 1991
EE756 Computer Communications
Networks and Open Systems
12.5 credit points 4 hours per week average Hawthorn
Prerequisites: must be doing or have done EExxA and
EExxB Corequisites: nil Assessment: exam, assignment
and laboratory work.
A subject in the Master of Engineering by coursework
(Telecommunications and Computer Systems Engineering)
Objectives
To develop an understanding of the protocols and open
systems standards used for computer networking, and their
infrastructural roles in the convergence of human and
computer information networks.
Content
Open systems and network layering concepts, OS1
model;
TCP/IP, SNA;
internetworking, bridging, routing;
transport protocols;
session services & protocols;
presentation facilities, ASN1, TELNET;
distributed applications: network management, file
transfer, electronic mail;
the Internet, the GII.
Recommended reading
Stallings, W., Halsall F.H., Data Communications, Computer
Networks and Open Systems. 3rd edn, England, Addison Wesley,
1992
EE757 Personal and Mobile
Communications
12.5 credit points 4 hours per week average Hawthorn
Prerequisites: must be doing or have done EExxA and
EExxB Corequisites: nil Assessment: exam, assignment
and laboratory work.
A subject in the Master of Engineering by coursework
(Telecommunications and Computer Systems Engineering)
Objectives
To develop an understanding of the techniques, applications
and limitations in the rapidly developing fields of wireless
and personal communications.
Content
The cellular concept, frequency reuse, mobility,
handovers;
FDMA, TDMA, CDMA and PRMA multiple access
methods;