BITS PILANI K.K.

BIRLA GOA-CAMPUS
INSTRUCTION DIVISION
First SEMESTER 2013-2014
Course Handout Part II
Date: 03-07-2014
In addition to Part-I (General Handout for all courses appended to the timetable) this portion gives further
specific details regarding the course.
Course No.
Course Title
Instructor-in-charge

: EEE /INSTR-F-414
: Telecommunication Switching Systems and Networks
: Nitin Sharma

1. Course description:
Introduction, electromechanical switching, pulse dialing and DTMF dialing, stored program control, space
division switching, speech digitization and transmission, time division switching, fundamentals of traffic
engineering, telephone networks, signaling, data networks, layered architecture and protocols, LANs,
packet switching networks, TCP/IP, ISDN, ATM networks.
2. Scope & Objective:
The objective of the course is to impart theoretical and practical knowledge of the present day
telecommunication switching systems and data networks. Topics ranging from the electromechanical
switching systems to the voice and data integration systems will be covered. Design of space and time
division switching systems will be discussed. The course also deals with data and ATM networks.
3. Text Books
T1 John C. Bellamy, Digital Telephony, 3rd Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002
4. Reference Books
R1 B.P. Lathi, Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems, 3rd Edition, Oxford University
Press, 1998
R2 Leon-Garcia, Alberto; Widjaja, Indra, Communication Networks Fundamental Concepts and Key
Architectures, Mc-Graw Hill Publishing Co., 2000.
R3 T. Viswanathan, Telecommunication Switching Systems and Networks, Prentice-Hall of India Pvt.
Ltd., 1992
R4 Rappaport. Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, Pearson Education India.
R-6. Andrea Goldsmith. Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press New York, NY, USA
2005
5. Course Plan
Lecture
No.

Topics to be covered

Ref. to Text Book

(chap./Sec.#)

Overview of the course, the analog network hierarchy, standard

organizations

1.1, 1.2.1

2,3

Introduction to switching systems, electromechanical switching, stored

program control,

1.2.3

4,5

Transmission systems, FDM multiplexing & modulation, transmission

impairments

1.2.4, 1.2.6, 1.2.8

chapter 4 R1

Signaling: in-channel and common-channel signaling, The intelligent

network

1.2.10, 1.2.12

7,8

Voice band data transmission, voice digitization, Time division multiplexing

1.2.15, 1.3, 1.3.2

and

Digital switching, digital network evolution

1.3.6, 1.3.7

10,11

Advantages and disadvantages of digital voice networks

2.1, 2.3

12, 13, 14

Voice digitization: PAM, PCM

3.1, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.3

and chapter 6 R1

15, 16

Companding techniques

3.2.4, 3.2.5, 3.2.6 and

chapter 6 R1

17, 18, 19

Speech redundancies, DPCM, DM

3.3, 3.4, 3.5 and chapter

6 R1

20, 21, 22

Digital transmission and multiplexing: pulse transmission, line coding

4.1, 4.2, 4.3 and chapter

6 and 7 R1

23, 24

TDM framing and synchronization

4.6 and chapter 7 R1

25, 26, 27

Space division switching, Blocking probabilities

5.2

28, 29, 30

Time division switching

5.3

31, 32

Combination switching, STS and TST switches

5.4

Self Study

SONET/SDH multiplexing and framing

8.5 (Self Study)

33,34

Digital Mobile Telephony

9 R1 and OFDM from R6

35,36

Data networks, message and packet switching and routing

10.1, 10.2

Self Study

ATM networks, Switching and applications

10.3 (Self Study)

Self Study

Integrated services digital network (ISDN)

11.1 (Self Study)

37,38,39

Traffic engineering: Erlangs formula, loss systems, delay systems

12.1, 12.2

40-42

Introduction to Cellular Communication

Chapter 2, 3, 4 from R4
and Lecture Notes

6. Evaluation Scheme
Component

Durati
on

Weightage

Date & Time

Remarks

Test I
Test II
Assignments/Surprise
Test/Seminar/Project
Compree

60 mts.
60 mts.
-

20%
20%
20%

3 hrs

40 %

15/09/14
20/10/14
Regular/
To be announced in class.
13/12/2014

Closed Book
Closed Book
Open Book
Closed Book;

7. Chamber consultation hours : To be announced in the class.

8. Make-up policy: Make up will be granted only to cases of hospitalization. Request for make up

must be made in written.

9. Notices : Notice regarding the course will be displayed on the moodle.
Instructor-in-Charge
EEE/INSTR F414