Telecommunication Engineering

Higher education teachers: Bešter Janez, Humar Iztok
Collaborators: Bešter Janez

Subject description

Prerequisits:

• Enrolment in the class. Acquaintance with content of following courses: Communication systems, Telecommunication networks, Telecommunication protocols, Network services.

Content (Syllabus outline):

Introduction to fundamental fields of telecommunication engineering: design, modelling planning, simulation, emulation and management of telecommunication systems and services. Statistical distributions of network traffic and loads. Queuing system theory. Bottleneck, congestion, blocking. Design in circuit switched networks (Erl B, Erl C model). Design in packet switched networks (M/M/1). Efficiency and performance. Building a model of telecommunication system. Simulations and emulations. Quality of Service (QoS). Basic concepts: statistical multiplexing, overprovisioning. Elastic and non-elastic applications. General concepts: resource reservation, admission control, service differentiation. QoS mechanisms and protocols (IntServ, DiffServ, RSCP, 802.1Q, 802.1p, MPLS TE). User perceived quality, Quality of Experience (QoE). QoE evaluation and measurements. Mean opinion score (MOS). Telecommunication traffic, load, application and element measurements and characterization. Performance evaluation. Conformance testing and verification of telecommunication systems. Management and control of telecommunication systems. Management models (TM, eTOM, ITIL), protocols and information models (CMIP, SNMP, CIM, MIB). Accounting and billing. Energy and cost efficiency of telecommunication systems, techno-economic aspect of telecommunication system design.

Objectives and competences:

• To acquire fundamental knowledge and skills for telecommunication system design, modelling, planning, simulation, emulation, measurement, testing, management and control, based on a good knowledge of telecommunication technologies and services for development, upgrade, and support of telecommunication systems in operator's environment.
• To understand performance parameters of telecommunication systems and their critical estimation and evaluation.

Intended learning outcomes:

• To know and understand basic principles of Telecommunications engineering.
• The acquired knowledge serves as a good background for a direct application and work in industry or with network operators, as well as a good chance for a further upgrade or re-usage in similar fields.

Learning and teaching methods:

• Lectures,
• ex-cathedra and laboratory exercises,
• homeworks and
• e-learning.

Study materials

Readings:

1. Villy B. Iversen: Teletraffic Engineering and Network Planning, Technical University of Denmark, 2007.
2. Alberto Leon-Garcia, Indra Widjaja: Communication Networks, Fundamental Concepts and Key Architectures, McGraw-Hill, 2000.
3. Haojin Wang: Telecommunications Network Management, McGraw Hill, 2000.
4. Članki, objavljenih v revijah, npr:
5. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/surveys/index.html