Telecommunication Engineering
Course Code: CSE 433
Credit Hour: 3
Course Group: Optional Courses
Introduction: Elements of a communication systems; Rotary dialing telephone, pulse and mid-frequency dialing, Communication model, data communication tasks, data communication network standards and organization; Design parameters of a switching system; cross bar switching, stored program control, enhanced services, two-stage and three stage networks, n-stage networks, time division switching, introduction to OSI and TCP/IP models, exchange and international regulator bodies.
Data Transmission Basics: Analog and digital data spectrum and bandwidth, transmission impairments, data rate and channel capacity.
Transmission Media: Characteristics and applications of twisted pairs, coaxial cables and optical fibers, terrestrial and satellite microwave, radio waves, VSAT; Data encoding and signals.
Telephone Apparatus: Microphone, speakers, ringer, pulse and tone dialing mechanism, side-tone mechanism, local and central batteries and advanced features.
Switching System: Introduction to analog system, digital switching systems – space division switching, blocking probability and multistage switching, time division switching and two-dimensional switching.
Traffic Analysis: Traffic characterization, grades of service, network blocking probabilities, delay system and queuing.
Modern Telephone Services and Network: Internet telephony, facsimile, integrated services digital network, asynchronous transfer mode and intelligent networks. Introduction to cellular telephony.
Text Books:
- Alberto Leon-Garcia, Indra Widjaja: Communication Networks-Fundamental Concepts and Key Architectures
- Annabel Z. Dodd: Essential Guide to Telecommunications
- Lillian Goleniewski: Telecommunications Essentials
Reference Books:
- John Bellamy: Digital Telephony
- James Martin: Telecommunications and the Computer
- M T Hills: Telecommunication Switching Principle