Telecommunication Protocols

Higher education teachers: Hercog Drago

Subject description

Prerequisits:

• Understanding of the following topics: programming, digital technics, communication systems.
• A student may pass the exam if they attended laboratory work, wrote the report on laboratory work, and successfully made two homework assignments.

Content (Syllabus outline):

Telecommunication service (user, provider, service specification, service access point, primitives). Protocol, protocol entities, protocol specification. Messages (user message and overhead). Protocol stack (principles, OSI model, TCP/IP, communication planes, tunneling). Communication system and protocol specification (nonformal and formal specification, abstract and transfer syntax, extended finite state machine, SDL, MSC). Protocol and protocol stack efficiency. Important functionalities of protocols. Connection management (two-way handshake, three-way handshake, collision resolution, negotiations). Providing reliable transfer (error detection and correction, channel coding, FEC, BEC, sliding window protocols). Fundamentals of flow and congestion control. Segmentation and reassembly. Medium access control protocols. Examples of some specific protocols (a more detailed description of protocols LAPB/LAPD, TCP, UDP, IP, ICMP; Aloha, CSMA/CD, ARP, and some Internet-related application-layer protocols). Protocol analysis.

Objectives and competences:

• Understanding principles and methods for message transfer through telecommunication system.
• Fundamentals of telecommunication services, protocols and protocol stacks.
• Expertise in protocol specification techniques.
• Overview of some telecommunication methods and protocols.

Intended learning outcomes:

The course emphasis is on understanding principles and protocol specifications. The goal of studying specific methods and protocols is to deepen and strengthen the principles understanding, as well as knowledge integration.

Learning and teaching methods:

• Lectures and laboratory work.
• The exam consists of written and oral exam.
• Examination and discussion of the written exam as well as discussion on laboratory work are parts of oral exam.
• Students must successfully elaborate two homework assignments

Study materials

Readings:

1. Stallings, W., Data and Computer Communications, 9th Ed., Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J., 2011
2. Sharp, R., Principles of Protocol Design, Springer, 2008
3. Pujolle, G., Les Réseaux, Édition 2011, Eyrolles, 2011