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ELE4018

Teletraffic Engineering & Switching Systems

Course Contents

  • Part A -
    • Teletraffic Engineering
    • Call interarrival and call holding times;
    • traffic variation and Busy Hour;
    • Handling of lost calls;
    • State probabilities of traffic systems;
    • full availability models;
    • waiting systems;
    • M/M/1 queue, Little's law, multi-queue models, M/G/1 queue;
    • PK formulae

  • Part B -
    • Switching Systems
    • Switching Networks;
    • digital switching;
    • PCM and Time-Space architectures;
    • Packet Switching;
    • Routing algorithms;
    • Quality of Service.

Supplementary Notes

None

Learning Outcomes

This module provides grounding in Teletraffic Engineering and modern switching techniques. 

Each subject area is covered from the viewpoints of both the telecommunications and computer networking industries. 

The module also introduces the concept of Quality of Service (QoS) and the techniques used to provide it in packet switched networks such as the Internet.

Skills

Assimilation of lecture material; its extrapolation to Telecommunications and Computer Networking design problems.