440-2214/01 – Network Technologies I (ST I)
Gurantor department | Department of Telecommunications | Credits | 4 |
Subject guarantor | Ing. Petr Machník, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Petr Machník, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2021/2022 | Year of cancellation | |
Intended for the faculties | FEI | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
To understand the concept and principle of network technologies, including methods of data transmission.
Learning outcomes are set so that the students are able to identify, apply and solve tasks in the field of network technologies.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Experimental work in labs
Summary
The subject Network Technologies I is oriented on an overview of all important developing network technologies for the transmission of various types of information like voice, data, video or multimedia information. It includes circuit-switched and packet-switched networks. An attention is also dedicated to optical transmission networks that create an inseparable part of a network communication infrastructure, various network procedures for a connection establishment with the specified service quality and fundamentals of the network management. It is also interested in LAN networks, WAN networks, Internet, access networks and various wireless technologies.
Compulsory literature:
MACHNÍK, Petr, MICHALEK, Libor. Network technologies I. Ostrava: Vysoká škola báňská - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2021.
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Combined examination (written and oral).
Knowledge is continuously controlled by tests and laboratory tasks.
Conditions for credit:
Minimal number of points from practical lessons is 15 (from 40).
E-learning
https://lms.vsb.cz/
Other requirements
No additional requirements are placed on the student.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Lectures:
1) Telecommunication networks attributes, communication model, signaling, methods of signal switching.
2) OSI reference model and its layers. TCP/IP protocol model and its layers, IP, TCP, and UDP.
3) Addressing in IPv4 and IPv6.
4) Subnetting.
5) LAN networks – LAN protocol stack, media access methods in LANs, network topologies, Ethernet.
6) Transport networks – PDH (Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy), SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy), DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing), used network devices. IP WAN networks, pure IP WAN networks, HDLC and PPP, MPLS technology, Metro Ethernet.
7) Internet – structure of Internet. Cloud computing.
8) Metallic and optical access networks (xDSL, DOCSIS, FTTx).
9) Wireless access networks (WLAN, DVB-RCS, Starlink). GNSS system.
10) Wireless Personal Area Networks (Bluetooth, Zigbee, ANT+). LPWAN technology.
11) Mobile technologies GSM and LTE.
12) Mobile technologies 5G and 6G. Future and visions in mobile networks.
Exercises:
1) Safety in laboratories. Basic information about the subject and its classification.
2) Laboratory work – cabling.
3) Laboratory work – IP addresses, subnetting.
4) Laboratory work – computer networks.
5) Laboratory work – throughput and delay measurement in data networks.
6) Laboratory work – virtualization.
7) Laboratory work – VoIP technology. Test nr.1.
8) Laboratory work – xDSL technology.
9) Laboratory work – passive optical networks.
10) Laboratory work – LPWAN technology (LoRa).
11) Laboratory work – wireless access networks (WiFi).
12) Laboratory work – mobile networks. Test nr. 2.
13) Reserve term for tests and labs.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction