S-38.120 Telecommunication Switching Technology

The course will not be lectured anymore from the academic year 2002-2003 onwards. It will be replaced by a new course S-38.115 Signaling Protocols (3 cr).

Latest news

All those that got at least a total of 10 points in the exercises are allowed to participate in the final exam of the course. See the noticeboard for complete exercise results.
Extra round results published in the Otax-news.
The use of the CAE-package for signalling/ISDN starts at Feb 11th, 2002.Info on CAE-exercise.
Exercise solutions are distributed only via Otapaino.

3 study weeks = 40h lectures, 5 exercises lectures and computer aided learning

Course homepage in Finnish. Please note, that most likely all the lectures and some exercises are given in ENGLISH (NOTE: THIS IS A CHANGE). All of the lecture materials and all of the exercise materials are provided in English and Finnish. Some excercise lessons may be given in Finnish.

Prerequisites

S-38.108: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 Piia Pulkkinen, and M.Sc. Mika Ilvesmäki. The course assistants have reception by appointment only.

Lectures and exercises

Lectures and exercises will start on January 14th 2002 and they will continue according to the schedule as follows:

On mondays from 10am to noon in lecture hall S3
On fridays from 9am to 11am in lecture hall S4
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

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 12 of the 20 exercise questions are correctly solved. If the student has correctly solved 12 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 20 exercises are correctly solved the student earns 4 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 2002. In effect, this means that the last opportunity to utilize the points will be on January 2003 with the last examination on the course based on spring 2002 lectures. If you haven't used your points by January 2003 you must participate in the exercises again. Contents of the course is likely to change significantly from 2003.

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-38.120) marked under the laboratory notice board on G-wing 2nd floor. Return of the exercises via email 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 five exercise lectures in total:

Date Exercise assistant Topic Other

Fri 1.2.2002 Mika Ilvesmäki PCM/Telephone networks Exercise info, exercise questions

Fri 8.2.2002 Mika Ilvesmäki Packet networks and delay Exercise questions, CAE-details

Fri 22.2.2002 Mika Ilvesmäki Switching Exercise questions

Fri 8.3.2002 Piia Pulkkinen Reliability Note: exercise lecture will be given in Finnish
Exercise questions

Fri 12.4.2002 Piia Pulkkinen Signaling Note: exercise lecture will be given in Finnish
Exercise questions

Fri 26.4.2002 Mika Ilvesmäki Extra exercise Exercise questions

Date	Exercise assistant	Topic	Other
Fri 1.2.2002	Mika Ilvesmäki	PCM/Telephone networks	Exercise info, exercise questions
Fri 8.2.2002	Mika Ilvesmäki	Packet networks and delay	Exercise questions, CAE-details
Fri 22.2.2002	Mika Ilvesmäki	Switching	Exercise questions
Fri 8.3.2002	Piia Pulkkinen	Reliability	Note: exercise lecture will be given in Finnish Exercise questions
Fri 12.4.2002	Piia Pulkkinen	Signaling	Note: exercise lecture will be given in Finnish Exercise questions
Fri 26.4.2002	Mika Ilvesmäki	Extra exercise	Exercise questions

Material

In addition to the course lecture material, other material required is covered in:

Joseph Y. Hui: Switching and traffic theory for integrated broadband networks chapters 1-5 (available also in PDF-format)
The CAL-manuals of the LM Ericsson Signaling software

Supportive material that is also recommended covers:

Gonzalo Camarillo: SIP Demystified, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company; ISBN: 0-07-137340-3
Sinnreich: Internet Communications Using SIP, John Wiley & Sons Inc; ISBN: 0-471-1399-2
Roger L. Freeman: Telecommunications System Engineering 3rd ed. Chapters 4, 8, 9, 13 and 16. The foreign students arel also recommended to 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 lecture material (slides) 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 12 of the 20 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 originally from Spring 1999, so some things have changed since then.

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