440-2103/02 – Introduction to Communication Technologies (ÚdKT)
| Gurantor department | Department of Telecommunications | Credits | 6 |
| Subject guarantor | prof. Ing. Miroslav Vozňák, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | prof. Ing. Miroslav Vozňák, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 1 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | English |
| Year of introduction | 2015/2016 | Year of cancellation | 2020/2021 |
| Intended for the faculties | FEI | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Understand the basic units, quantities and technologies in telecommunications.
Learning outcomes are set so that the students are able to identify and apply tasks in the field of communication technology.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Experimental work in labs
Project work
Summary
The student gets information about the technologies and principles of information transmission in metallic, optical, wireless and access networks. He/She will understand their use and understands the techniques of different types of communication networks. The generation of an electrical signal and its adaptation for transmission in various kinds of environments puts the student in the broad field of communication technologies. Of course, at the application level, attention is paid to problematic of the multimedia tranfering and the future of communications that belong to the next generation networks. Students will also acquire basic information from imageand sound processing and also the fundementals of the security in communications is not neglected. This knowledge forms the pillars for future telecommunication education. Conclusion of the course belongs to the vision and concrete examples of the use of communication technologies in practice.
Compulsory literature:
T. Anttalainen, J. Ville: Introduction to Communication Networks, Artech House Communications and Network Engineering Series, 367 p., 2014.
Recommended literature:
M. Clark: Networks and Telecommunications, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2nd edition, 973 p., 2001.
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Every student has posibility to obtains maximum permissible 100 points in the during semester, it inclusive of:
• solution of projects 2x20 points,
• laboratory practice, 4x5 points,
• check tests 2x20 points.
E-learning
http://kat440.vsb.cz/index.php?lang=en
Other requirements
No additional requirements are placed on the student.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Evolution in communication systems
History of communications; signal and frequence, simplex and duplex communication, backbone and access network.
2. Communication networks
Signaling and synchronization in networks, technologies in backbone and access networks.
3. Switching Systems
Generations of switches, switching principles and techniques, dimensioning.
4. Metallic networks
Symmetric and assymetric lines, substitutional model of lines, attenuation, crosstalk, sidetone, capacitive unablance
5. Optical networks
Advantages and disadvantages of air optical path, LASER and LED connecting links, optical fibers and their spectral attenuation chracteristics, dispersion, spectrum of light sources for optical communication, WDM networks.
6. Wireless networks
Radio spectrum, fundamentals of radio signal propagation, radio-communication chain, overview of radio systems (Wifi-BT-Wimax-Zigbee).
7. Access networks
xDSL technology (overview, priniciples, ...), DOCSIS technology.
8. Computer networks
Model and TCP/IP architecture, relation to RM OSI. Ethernet, IPv4 and IPv6, application and transport protocols.
9. Mobile technologies
Mobile networks 1G and 2G, UMTS (3G) and LTE (4G).
10. Next Generation Networks
NGN architecture, individual layers and protfolio of services, IP Multimedia Subsystems.
11. Multimedia transmissions
Features and real-time protocols, Skype and its architecture, open-source system ASTERISK.
12. Quality of Service
Availability and reliability, speech quality and methods of assessment, speech quality computational model (E-model)
13. Security in communication
Cpryptography, cryptoanalysis and cryptographics system, confidentiality, integrity, authentication, non-repudiation, ciphers and algorithms, security risks in IP telephony and suitable protection against well-known attacks
14. Trends and vision of communication technologies
Future of networks, recent advances in Internet2, TERENA, Geant
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction