PA3705

COURSE TITLE: SWITCHING SYSTEMS

CLASSES: 3+1

Course contents:

• Introduction
• Functions
• Structures

• Basics of telecommunications traffic servicing
• Traffic theory
• Traffic models
• Birth and death processes
• Elements of queuing theory
• Speech source modeling
• Calculation of traffic performances: offered, serviced and dropped
• Models with priority
• Networks made of elementary queues
• Implementation in various multiplexing techniques

• Circuit switching systems
• Development
• Principles
• Space-switching and time-switching systems
• Single and multi – cascading systems
• Digital switching systems
• Switching systems software
• Telephone network and switching strategies: hierarchical and non-hierarchical techniques
• Signaling
• Synchronization
• Auxiliary functions
• Management functions
• Switching in mobile cellular networks

• Packet switching systems
• Principles
• Classification
• Space-switching and time-switching systems
• Performances
• Buffering
• VOQ
• CICQ
• Load balancing switches
• Switching in mobile cellular networks
• Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)

• Wavelength switching systems
• Principles
• Classification
• Fully optical switches
• OE switches
• MEMS

Literature:

• S.R.Ali “Digital Switching Systems”, McGraw-Hill, 1997
• H.J.Chao, C.H.Lam, E.Oki “Broadband Packet Switching Technologies”, John Wiley & Sons, 2001
• J.F.Hayes, T.V.J.G.Babu “Modeling and Analysis of Telecommunications Networks”, Wiley Interscience, 2004