Lecturer: Lorenzo Favalli  

Course name: Sistemi di telecomunicazioni
Course code: 062218
Degree course: Ingegneria Elettronica e delle Telecomunicazioni
Disciplinary field of science: ING-INF/03
L'insegnamento è caratterizzante per: Ingegneria Elettronica e delle Telecomunicazioni
University credits: CFU 5
Course website: n.d.

Specific course objectives

Knowledge of the main telecommunications systems with their performance and limits.

Course programme

Services and applications
Fax, data, video, quality of service. Review of transmission, switching and multiplexing techniques.

Local and metropolitan area networks
The IEEE802 family of standards: Ethernet, Token bus, Token ring, FDDI, DQDB. Bluetooth, WiFi. HiperLAN. Description of protocols, performance comparison. Parameters influencing performance

Traffic control
Definition of congestion. Congestion control strategies. Admission control. Flow control. ARQ protocols

ATM
The cell. Protocol Reference Model. Fast switching architectures. Flow control and traffic classes.

TCP/IP and the Internet
The Internet: network structure, definition of nodes, control bodies. IP protocol: address structure, address classess, classless addressing, subnetting. TCP/UDP: the concept of ports. TCP: flow and congestion control, window dimensioning. Other protocols and their functionalities: ARP, ICMP, RTP. Introducing IPv6. Network security: principles of authentication and ciphering. NAT, Firewall, Proxy. Types of attacks

Mobile radio systems
General description of the structure of a cellular network: evolution of the infrastructure from circuit switched to circuit/packet, to full packet. Radio interface of the most popular systems: GSM-GPRS, UMTS.

Course entry requirements

Telecommunications networks

Course structure and teaching

Lectures (hours/year in lecture theatre): 32
Practical class (hours/year in lecture theatre): 4
Practicals / Workshops (hours/year in lecture theatre): 8

Suggested reading materials

O. Bertazioni, L. Favalli. GSM-GPRS. Case Editrice Ulrico Hoepli.

W. Stallings. Trasmissione Dati e Reti di Computer. Jackson Libri.

Testing and exams

Written and oral test. Only students with positive evaluation of the written test will be allowed to the oral part. During the semester, two partial exams will be offered to replace the written test of a regular exam