School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Telecommunication Networks
  • Unit Code

    ENS5444
  • Year

    2018
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Iftekhar AHMAD

Description

This unit develops an understanding of telecommunication networking technologies, with particular emphasis on their structures, applications and services. It covers the deployment, operational and management issues related to access networks, metropolitan area networks, and long-haul networks. It evaluates alternative technologies for each segment of the network, and develops the fundamental skills for network design.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from ENS3554, ENS5343, ENS6161

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the key elements and technologies used in telecommunication networks.
  2. Design and optimise high level network architectures based on traffic demands, required services, and growth and performance requirements using appropriate tools.
  3. Design key elements of telecommunication networks.
  4. Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of combining different technologies and standards for the development of a high capacity telecommunications network.
  5. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of alternative networking technologies.
  6. Explain the current trends in telecommunications.
  7. Research new developments in the field of telecommunications and reflect critically on their significance to engineering practice.

Unit Content

  1. Fibre optic communications, Synchronous Optical Networking (SONET) and Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH).
  2. Long distance networks, design issues and network design procedures, long distance links, network management.
  3. Next generation networking and enabling technologies, passive optical networks (PON), GPON, NG-PON and XG-PON.
  4. Overview of telecommunications; regulation, switching, transmission, network access.
  5. Signalling systems for telecommunications, signalling system 7 (SS7), architecture and operation of SS7.
  6. Subscriber line technologies, DSL access technologies, wireless access technologies.
  7. Voice-over IP (VoIP), VoIP gateway, VoIP media gateway controllers and protocols.
  8. Wireless and mobile radio technologies for telecommunications.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 2 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars and laboratories.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Laboratory Work ^Network design and optimisation20%
ProjectNetwork design project25%
TestMid-semester theory test15%
Examination ^End of semester examination40%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Telecommunication Networks
  • Unit Code

    ENS5444
  • Year

    2018
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Iftekhar AHMAD

Description

This unit develops an understanding of telecommunication networking technologies, with particular emphasis on their structures, applications and services. It covers the deployment, operational and management issues related to access networks, metropolitan area networks, and long-haul networks. It evaluates alternative technologies for each segment of the network, and develops the fundamental skills for network design.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from ENS3554, ENS5343, ENS6161

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the key elements and technologies used in telecommunication networks.
  2. Design and optimise high level network architectures based on traffic demands, required services, and growth and performance requirements using appropriate tools.
  3. Design key elements of telecommunication networks.
  4. Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of combining different technologies and standards for the development of a high capacity telecommunications network.
  5. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of alternative networking technologies.
  6. Explain the current trends in telecommunications.
  7. Research new developments in the field of telecommunications and reflect critically on their significance to engineering practice.

Unit Content

  1. Fibre optic communications, Synchronous Optical Networking (SONET) and Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH).
  2. Long distance networks, design issues and network design procedures, long distance links, network management.
  3. Next generation networking and enabling technologies, passive optical networks (PON), GPON, NG-PON and XG-PON.
  4. Overview of telecommunications; regulation, switching, transmission, network access.
  5. Signalling systems for telecommunications, signalling system 7 (SS7), architecture and operation of SS7.
  6. Subscriber line technologies, DSL access technologies, wireless access technologies.
  7. Voice-over IP (VoIP), VoIP gateway, VoIP media gateway controllers and protocols.
  8. Wireless and mobile radio technologies for telecommunications.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 2 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars and laboratories.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Laboratory Work ^Network design and optimisation20%
ProjectNetwork design project25%
TestMid-semester theory test15%
Examination ^End of semester examination40%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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