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TCOM 142: Switching Networks and Traffic Concepts

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I will not be handling this course in 1st sem of 2003-2004.

This course was first offered in Summer 2002 as the first batch of ECE students at the Ateneo reached their 5th year.

Luisito L. Agustin
June 2003

Course Description

This is an introductory course on switching, signalling, and traffic in the context of telecommunications networks. Topics include:

• message, packet, and circuit switching
• telecommunications traffic concepts and congestion
• traffic models for lost-call systems and queueing systems
• switch architectures, blocking, space division switching, time division switching
• control of switching systems, including stored program control
• signalling, including channel-associated and common channel signalling
• broadband networks, ATM, frame relay
• current trends and issues

References:

These books are available at the Rizal Library :

• J. E. Flood, Telecommunications Switching, Traffic and Networks, 1995.
  
  This book was used as main reference when the course was first offered in Summer 2002.

• Aaron Kershenbaum, Telecommunications Network Design Algorithms, 1993.
  
  This book looks like a good source for student projects in TCOM 142.

• Stephen Bigelow, Understanding Telephone Electronics, 3rd ed, 1991.
• Uyless Black, ATM vol 1: Foundations for Broadband Networks, 1995.
• Bruce Briley, Introduction to Telephone Switching, 1983.
• Richard Manterfield, Telecommunications Signalling, 1999.
• Mischa Schwartz, Telecommunication Networks: Protocols, Modeling and Analysis, 1987.
• Wayne Tomasi, Electronic Communication Systems: fundamentals through advanced, 1998.

These links are to data sheets and application notes of the MT8980 Digital Crosspoint Switch:

MT8980D 256 x 256 Channels ( 8 TDM streams @ 2.048Mb/s) Non-blocking Digital Switch (DX)

MT8980D Data Sheet

The MT8980 and the MT8981 Digital Crosspoint Switches

Time Space Switching 8, 16 or 32 kbps Channels using the MT8980

Functional Block Diagram of the MT8980

If these links fail, go to the Zarlink site, and search for "MT8980". Zarlink was formerly Mitel Corporation, hence the MT prefix in some of its products.

Similar Courses:

• EE6412 Switching and Routing in Telecommunication Networks, City University of Hong Kong.
• E726 Telecommunications Networks, University College London, London.
• ECE 725A Telecommunications Networks - Modelling and Analysis, McMaster University, Canada.
• RSC1-3004 Communication networks & services I, Technical University of Madrid

Statistics

	F	D	C	C+	B	B+	A	total
TCOM 142 Summer 2002	0 (0 %)	1 (6 %)	7 (44 %)	4 (25 %)	3 (19 %)	1 (6 %)	0 (0 %)	16 (100 %)

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