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 and discuss 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 1.1. Access, Metropolitan and Long Distance Networks 1.2. Core Network Planning and Architecture 1.3. Optical Network Technologies and Components, WDM multiplexing; 1.4. Digital Hierarchies and SDH (SONET); 1.5. Optical Transport Networks; 1.6. MPLS Networks
  2. Introduction to wireless networks 2.1. Modulation and transmission techniques; 2.2. Medium access protocols; 2.3. Wireless Networks 2.4. Mobile networks 2.5. 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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