ECS 5365 ISDN Networks and Applications Outline Philip Branch Centre for Telecommunications and Information Engineering (CTIE) Monash University philip. branch@eng. monash. edu. au 1
Course Outline • Overview of N-ISDN • ISDN Services and Architectures • ISDN Protocols and Signalling • Overview of B-ISDN • ATM Protocols and Networks • ATM Traffic and Network Management • • ATM Signalling ATM Switch Design ATM and Other Protocols Capacity Planning for ATM Networks and Case Studies • Student Presentations • Summary and Review 2
Teaching and Assessment • Two hours of Lectures per week for 13 weeks • Assessment – Exam 50 % CLOSED BOOK – Project 40 % – Presentation / Labs 10 % • Weeks 11 and 12 student presentations 3
Student Projects • • • Either a workplace based project, or A topic from the circulating list Email me your three preferences in order Projects will be allocated after week 2 Project reports to be 20 to 50 pages long 4
References • Stallings, W. , “ISDN and Broadband ISDN with Frame Relay and ATM”, 3 rd or 4 th Edition, Prentice-Hall, 1995 • de. Prycker, M. , “Asynchronous Transfer Mode: Solution for Broadband ISDN”, 3 rd Edition, Prentice-Hall, 1995 • Partridge, C. , “Gigabit Networking”, Addison-Wesley, 1994 • Australian Communications Magazine • IEEE Network Magazine 5