Course detail

High-Speed Communication Systems

FIT-IVKSAcad. year: 2014/2015

Synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH). Integration of tributary signals into SDH. Network Node equipment, network elements, function blocks. Measuring and testing the SDH equipment. Digital transport network, signals of circuits layers. Multimedia signal transmission in SDH, processing and transmitting video and audio, Internet protocol (IP) and SDH. Synchronization of digital networks, resistance, jitter and wander of payload, indication of synchronization quality, synchronization in the Czech Republic network. Other high-speed communication systems, gigabit Ethernet and others. Time bases reliability, slip rate. Transcodec PCM/ADPCM, mí/A. High-speed communication networks of Czech Telecom, power distribution and Czech Railways. Telecommunication management network (TMN).

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Vladislav Škorpil, CSc.

Department

Department of Telecommunications (UTKO)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Detailed knowledge of SDH and telecommunication networks based on SDH. Telecommunication Management Network (TMN).

Prerequisites

Fundamentals of electrical and electronic engineering and electro-magnetic signals transmission.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Active participation in obligatory laboratory exercises (max 30 points). Handing in the protocols (prepared in compliance with the rules) and the assigned written work. Laboratory exercises are conducted in the Learning Centre of Czech Telecom, Čichnova 23, Brno.

Course curriculum

    Syllabus of lectures:
    • Important terms. PDH: E1, E2, E3, E4. Measuring on high-speed communication network.
    • SDH, multiplex structure. C, VC, TU, TUG, AU, AUG, STM-N.
    • E4 and E3 mapping into STM-1.
    • E1 mapping into STM-1.
    • Equipment of network nodes NN. Add and Drop muldex, Crossconect.
    • NN function bloks
    • Digital transport networks.
    • Introduction to and basic terms of ATM.
    • Digital network synchronisation.
    • Reliability of timing, transcodecs.
    • High-speed telecommunications networks of Czech Telecom, power distribution industry and Czech railways.
    • Telecommunication management network TMN
    • Digital transmission of radio and televizion. Cable TV.

    Syllabus of laboratory exercises:
    • Becoming acquainted with the Czech Telecom Learning Centre. Work in their laboratories.
    • Using the SMA technical manuals
    • Variants of SMA1/4/16c cards
    • Setting the SDH equipment
    • Measuring on the SDH equipment
    • Repairing the SDH equipment
    • Optical cables
    • Welding of optical fibre
    • Measuring with the aid of the RXC reflectometer
    • Structured cabling, measuring
    • EWSD telephone exchange
    • S12 telephone exchange
    • ADSL connection

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Providing detailed knowledge of high-speed communiscations systems, the backbone of present-day telecommunication network, in the scope given below in the summary and in syllabi. Practical work with the UTKO experimental high-speed network.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Review of the preparation and protocols in laboratory and computer exercises, review of short-time assignments.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

HALSALL, F.: Data Communications, Computer Networks and Open Systems. Addison-Wesley, 1996 PETRÁSEK, J., PETRÁSEK, M., ŠKOP, M.: Synchronní digitální hierarchie. ČVUT Praha, 1994 MORREALE, P., TERPLAN, K.: The CRC Handbook of Modern Telecommunications. CRC Press, New York, 2001, ISBN 0-8493-3337-7

Recommended reading

HALSALL, F.: Data Communications, Computer Networks and Open Systems. Addison-Wesley, 1996 PETRÁSEK, J., PETRÁSEK, M., ŠKOP, M.: Synchronní digitální hierarchie. ČVUT Praha, 1994 MORREALE, P., TERPLAN, K.: The CRC Handbook of Modern Telecommunications. CRC Press, New York, 2001, ISBN 0-8493-3337-7

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme IT-BC-3 Bachelor's

    branch BIT , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective