CS 4594 Broadband Communications (4) 2005

Catalog Description:

Principles of broadband networks and communications. Telephone system structure, signaling, services, and protocols. Circuit, packet, and cell switching. Broadband signalling and traffic management. Advanced switch technology. Case studies: SONET, SDH, Frame relay, B-ISDN, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), IP and multimedia over ATM. Prerequisite: CS 3590.

Course Description

• Telephony network and services; broadband communications
• technologies -- FDDI, SONET/SDH; packet and cell
• switching -- Frame Relay, B-ISDN, ATM; signaling
• services and traffic management; LAN emulatioin; Optical
• networks -- Lambda switching.

Course Outline

• Communication networks
• Telephone network and services
• Switching technologies
  • packet and cell switching
• Frame Relay
• Broadband communications, B-ISDN
• FDDI
• SONET/SDH
• ATM
  • ATM Model
    • user plane, control plane, management plane
  • Physical layer
  • ATM layer
  • ATM Adaptation Layer (AAL)
    • AAL1, AAL2, AAL 3/4, AAL5
  • Signaling AAL and SSCOP
  • switching fabrics
• Signaling services, Q.2931, UNI, NNI, PNNI
• Traffic management
• Optical switching technologies and networks

Assignments and Project

The assignments may include

1. building and testing a simulation of a packing switch,
2. building and testing a simulation of packet switching network,
3. examining and configuring a real broadband switch, and
4. writing a proposal for a real broadband network. Programming may be done in C or Java or a simulation language using a network or general simulation system.

Recommended Text Books

• Balaji Kumar, Broadband Communications, McGraw-Hill.
• Uyless Black, ATM, Vol I, 2nd Ed., Prentice Hall.
• H. Jonathon Chao, Cheuk H. Lam, Eiji Oki, Broadband Packet
• Switching Technologies, Wiley.
• Rainer Handel, Manfred N Huber, Stefan Schroder, ATM Networks, 3rd Ed., Addison-Wesley.
• Othmar Kyas, Gregan Crawford, ATM Networks, Prentice Hall.