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.