Fixed and Mobile Networks

Objectives

  • Understand the theoretical concepts that support digital transmission systems;
  • Understand the different architectures of fixed and mobile networks, their components and interconnection;
  • Understand the technological evolution of network infrastructures;
  • Exemplify the use of technologies in different scenarios of network interconnection;
  • Know the main mobile and wireless communication systems for public and private networks;
  • Characterize mobile communications and analyse associated architectures and protocols;
  • Master the principles underlying multiplexing and switching to support different network services.

Program

  1. Introduction to Access and Core Networks
    • Access, Metropolitan and Long Distance Networks;
    • Core Network Planning and Architecture;
    • Optical Network Technologies and Components, WDM multiplexing;
    • Digital Hierarchies and SDH (SONET);
    • Optical Transport Networks;
    • MPLS Networks.
  2. Introduction to wireless networks
    • Mobile networks evolution;
    • Protocols and procedures in cellular networks.

Bibliography

  • S. Kangovi, Peering Carrier Ethernet Networks, Morgan Kaufmann Ed., ISBN: 9780128092491, 2016.

  • R. Ramaswami, K. Sivarajan, G. Sasaki, ”Optical Networks: A Practical Perspective”, 3rd Ed, Elsevier Inc., 2010.

  • B. Furht, “Handbook of Mobile Broadcasting”, CRC Press, 2008.

  • K.G. Szarkowicz, A. S. Monge, MPLS in the SDN Era, O’Reilly Media, Inc., ISBN: 9781491905449, 2015.

  • A. Osseiran, J. Monserrat, P. Marsch, “5G Mobile and Wireless Communications Technology”, Cambridge University Press, 2016.

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