INTRODUCTION TO TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK ENGINEERING
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION TO TELECOMMUNICATIONS WHAT IS TELECOMMUNICATIONS? SIGNIFICANCE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE STANDARDIZATION STANDARDS ORGANIZATIONS INTERESTED PARTIES NATIONAL STANDARDIZATION AUTHORITIES EUROPEAN ORGANIZATIONS AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONS GLOBAL ORGANIZATIONS OTHER ORGANIZATIONS DEVELOPMENT OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS BUSINESS PROBLEMS AND REVIEW QUESTIONS REFERENCES THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK: AN OVERVIEW BASIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK TRANSMISSION SWITCHING SIGNALING OPERATION OF A CONVENTIONAL TELEPHONE MICROPHONE EARPHONE SIGNALING FUNCTIONS SIGNALING TO THE EXCHANGE FROM THE TELEPHONE SETUP AND RELEASE OF A CALL ROTARY DIALING TONE DIALING LOCAL LOOP AND 2W/4W CIRCUITS TELEPHONE NUMBERING INTERNATIONAL PREFIX COUNTRY CODE TRUNK CODE, TRUNK PREFIX, OR AREA CODE SUBSCRIBER NUMBER OPERATOR NUMBERS SWITCHING AND SIGNALING TELEPHONE EXCHANGE SWITCHING HIERARCHY TELEPHONE CALL ROUTING LOCAL-ACCESS NETWORK LOCAL EXCHANGE DISTRIBUTION FRAMES TRUNK NETWORK INTERNATIONAL NETWORK TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS PUBLIC NETWORKS PRIVATE OR DEDICATED NETWORKS VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS INS PUBLIC SWITCHED TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK TODAY NETWORK MANAGEMENT INTRODUCTION WHO MANAGES NETWORKS? DCN TMN TRAFFIC ENGINEERING GRADE OF SERVICE BUSY HOUR TRAFFIC INTENSITY AND THE ERLANG PROBABILITY OF BLOCKING SIGNALS CARRIED OVER THE NETWORK TYPES OF INFORMATION AND THEIR REQUIREMENTS SIMPLEX, HALF-DUPLEX, AND FULL-DUPLEX COMMUNICATION FREQUENCY AND BANDWIDTH FREQUENCY BANDWIDTH ANALOG AND DIGITAL SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS ANALOG AND DIGITAL SIGNALS ADVANTAGES OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY EXAMPLES OF MESSAGES ANALOG SIGNALS OVER DIGITAL NETWORKS PCM SAMPLING QUANTIZING QUANTIZING NOISE NONUNIFORM QUANTIZING COMPANDING ALGORITHMS AND PERFORMANCE BINARY CODING PCM ENCODER AND DECODER OTHER SPEECH-CODING METHODS ADAPTIVE PCM (APCM) DIFFERENTIAL PCM (DPCM) ADAPTIVE DPCM (ADPCM) SPEECH CODING OF GSM SUMMARY OF SPEECH-CODING METHODS POWER LEVELS OF SIGNALS AND DECIBELS DECIBEL, GAIN, AND LOSS POWER LEVELS DIGITAL MILLIWATT BASIC CONCEPT OF A TRANSMISSION SYSTEM ELEMENTS OF A TRANSMISSION SYSTEM SIGNALS AND SPECTRA RADIO TRANSMISSION CW MODULATION METHODS ALLOCATION OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM FREE-SPACE LOSS OF RADIO WAVES ANTENNAS MAXIMUM DATA RATE OF A TRANSMISSION CHANNEL SYMBOL RATE (BAUD RATE) AND BANDWIDTH SYMBOL RATE AND BIT RATE MAXIMUM CAPACITY OF A TRANSMISSION CHANNEL CODING PURPOSE OF LINE CODING SPECTRUM OF COMMON LINE CODES REGENERATION MULTIPLEXING FREQUENCY-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (FDM) AND TDM PCM FRAME STRUCTURE PLESIOCHRONOUS TRANSMISSION HIERARCHY SDH AND SONET TRANSMISSION MEDIA COPPER CABLES OPTICAL FIBER CABLES SATELLITE TRANSMISSION TRANSMISSION EQUIPMENT IN THE NETWORK MODEMS TERMINAL MULTIPLEXERS ADD/DROP MULTIPLEXERS DIGITAL CROSS-CONNECT SYSTEMS REGENERATORS OR INTERMEDIATE REPEATERS OPTICAL LINE SYSTEMS WDM OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS MICROWAVE RELAY SYSTEMS MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS CELLULAR RADIO PRINCIPLES STRUCTURE OF A CELLULAR NETWORK CELLULAR STRUCTURE HLR AND VLR RADIO CHANNELS OPERATING PRINCIPLE OF A CELLULAR NETWORK MS IN IDLE MODE OUTGOING CALL INCOMING CALL HANDOVER OR HANDOFF MS TRANSMITTING POWER MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS CORDLESS TELEPHONES PMR (PROFESSIONAL OR PRIVATE MOBILE RADIO) RADIO PAGING ANALOG CELLULAR SYSTEMS DIGITAL SECOND GENERATION CELLULAR SYSTEMS THIRD GENERATION CELLULAR SYSTEMS MOBILE SATELLITE SYSTEMS WLANS BLUETOOTH GSM STRUCTURE OF THE GSM NETWORK PHYSICAL CHANNELS LOGICAL CHANNELS OPERATION OF THE GSM NETWORK LOCATION UPDATE MOBILE CALL GSM SECURITY FUNCTIONS GSM ENHANCED DATA SERVICES GPRS GPRS NETWORK STRUCTURE GPRS NETWORK ELEMENTS OPERATION OF GPRS DATA COMMUNICATIONS PRINCIPLES OF DATA COMMUNICATIONS COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS SERIAL AND PARALLEL DATA COMMUNICATIONS ASYNCHRONOUS AND SYNCHRONOUS DATA TRANSMISSION CIRCUIT AND PACKET SWITCHING CIRCUIT SWITCHING PACKET SWITCHING LAYER 3 ROUTING AND ROUTERS SWITCHING AND ROUTING THROUGH VIRTUAL CIRCUITS POLLING DATA COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS PROTOCOL HIERARCHIES PURPOSE AND VALUE OF LAYERING OPEN SYSTEMS INTERCONNECTION (OSI) TCP/IP PROTOCOL STACK DATA FLOW THROUGH A PROTOCOL STACK ACCESS METHODS VOICE-BAND MODEMS ISDN DSL CABLE TV NETWORKS WIRELESS ACCESS FIBER CABLE ACCESS LEASED LINES AND WANS LANS LAN TECHNOLOGIES AND NETWORK TOPOLOGIES MULTIPLE-ACCESS SCHEME OF THE ETHERNET CSMA/CD NETWORK STRUCTURE FRAME STRUCTURE OF THE ETHERNET CSMA/CD COLLISION DETECTION TWISTED-PAIR ETHERNET SWITCHED ETHERNET SWITCHES AND BRIDGES FAST ETHERNET AUTONEGOTIATION GIGABIT ETHERNET UPGRADE PATH OF THE ETHERNET NETWORK VIRTUAL LAN THE INTERNET DEVELOPMENT OF THE INTERNET PROTOCOLS USED IN THE INTERNET BEARER NETWORK PROTOCOLS FOR IP INTERNET PROTOCOL ADDRESS RESOLUTION PROTOCOL ROUTING PROTOCOLS ICMP STRUCTURE OF INTERNET AND IP ROUTING HOST-TO-HOST PROTOCOLS APPLICATION LAYER PROTOCOLS WWW VOICE OVER IP (VOIP)