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BITS PILANI K.K. BIRLA GOA-CAMPUSINSTRUCTION DIVISION

First SEMESTER 2013-2014Course Handout Part II

Date: 03-07-2014In addition to Part-I (General Handout for all courses appended to the timetable) this portion gives furtherspecific details regarding the course.

Course No. : EEE /INSTR-F-414Course Title : Telecommunication Switching Systems and NetworksInstructor-in-charge : Nitin Sharma

1. Course description:

Introduction, electromechanical switching, pulse dialing and DTMF dialing, stored program control, spacedivision switching, speech digitization and transmission, time division switching, fundamentals of trafficengineering, telephone networks, signaling, data networks, layered architecture and protocols, LANs,packet switching networks, TCP/IP, ISDN, ATM networks.

2. Scope & Objective:

The objective of the course is to impart theoretical and practical knowledge of the present daytelecommunication switching systems and data networks. Topics ranging from the electromechanical

switching systems to the voice and data integration systems will be covered. Design of space and timedivision switching systems will be discussed. The course also deals with data and ATM networks.

3. Text Books

T1 John C. Bellamy, Digital Telephony, 3rd

Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002

4. Reference Books

R1 B.P. Lathi, Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems, 3rd Edition, Oxford UniversityPress, 1998

R2 Leon-Garcia, Alberto; Widjaja, Indra, Communication Networks Fundamental Concepts and KeyArchitectures,Mc-Graw Hill Publishing Co., 2000.

R3 T. Viswanathan, Telecommunication Switching Systems and Networks, Prentice-Hall of India Pvt.Ltd., 1992

R4 Rappaport. Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, Pearson Education India.

R-6.Andrea Goldsmith. Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press New York, NY, USA2005

5. Course Plan

LectureNo.

Topics to be covered Ref. to Text Book(chap./Sec.#)

1 Overview of the course, the analog network hierarchy, standardorganizations

1.1, 1.2.1

2,3 Introduction to switching systems, electromechanical switching, storedprogram control,

1.2.3

4,5 Transmission systems, FDM multiplexing & modulation, transmissionimpairments

1.2.4, 1.2.6, 1.2.8 andchapter 4 R1

6 Signaling: in-channel and common-channel signaling, The intelligentnetwork

1.2.10, 1.2.12

7,8 Voice band data transmission, voice digitization, Time division multiplexing 1.2.15, 1.3, 1.3.2

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9 Digital switching, digital network evolution 1.3.6, 1.3.7

10,11 Advantages and disadvantages of digital voice networks 2.1, 2.3

12, 13, 14 Voice digitization: PAM, PCM 3.1, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.3and chapter 6 R1

15, 16 Companding techniques 3.2.4, 3.2.5, 3.2.6 andchapter 6 R1

17, 18, 19 Speech redundancies, DPCM, DM 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 and chapter6 R1

20, 21, 22 Digital transmission and multiplexing: pulse transmission, line coding 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 and chapter6 and 7 R1

23, 24 TDM framing and synchronization 4.6 and chapter 7 R1

25, 26, 27 Space division switching, Blocking probabilities 5.2

28, 29, 30 Time division switching 5.3

31, 32 Combination switching, STS and TST switches 5.4

Self Study SONET/SDH multiplexing and framing 8.5 (Self Study)

33,34 Digital Mobile Telephony 9 R1 and OFDM from R6

35,36 Data networks, message and packet switching and routing 10.1, 10.2

Self Study ATM networks, Switching and applications 10.3 (Self Study)

Self Study Integrated services digital network (ISDN) 11.1 (Self Study)

37,38,39 Traffic engineering: Erlangs formula, loss systems, delay systems 12.1, 12.2

40-42 Introduction to Cellular Communication Chapter 2, 3, 4 from R4and Lecture Notes

6. Evaluation Scheme

Component Duration

Weightage Date & Time Remarks

Test I 60 mts. 20% 15/09/14 Closed Book

Test II 60 mts. 20% 20/10/14 Closed Book

Assignments/SurpriseTest/Seminar/Project

- 20% Regular/To be announced in class.

Open Book

Compree 3 hrs 40 % 13/12/2014 Closed Book;

7. Chamber consul t at i on hour s : To be announced in the class.

8. Make-up policy: Make up will be granted only to cases of hospitalization. Request for make up

must be made in written.9. Notices : Notice regarding the course will be displayed on the moodle.

Instructor-in-ChargeEEE/INSTR F414