S-38.115 Signaling Protocols (3 cr)

Latest News:  Signaling Protocols is a new course and will be lectured for the first time in the Spring of 2003.
This course replaces S-38.120 Telecommunication Switching Technology. Lectures and exercises are given in English.

The course is one of the core courses in the Networking major and is also part of the Master's programme in Telecommunications. It is also useful to those who want to understand how to design services that rely on the underlying signaling infrastructure in the network.

Content
Signaling in telecommunications and data networks, e.g. telephone network and GSM-networks, VoIP in wireline and 3G networks.  The course covers signaling and related mechanisms on a functional level as well as describes the systems and the contexts where the signaling systems are used. Focus is on layer 3 in OSI terms. Also lower layers are discussed to an extent. In IP networks signaling is an application on the basic IP infrastructure. Therefore, from the basic IP infrastructure point of view we are dealing with applications that do signaling or are directly related to signaling.

Prerequisites 

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Exercise Routine

                  If   7  of 12  questions have been correctly solved, students will be rewarded +1p
                       12 of 12 questions have been correctly solved, students will be rewarded +2p

  2) 2 practical exercises ( E3 & E4)

Exercise3(LME):   100 selection questions based on the CAL-manuals of the LM Ericsson Signalling Software

If 70% questions have been correctly solved, students will be rewarded +1p

The 2 persons’ group may be formed freely and the members may reserve time on the computers in 2 hour pieces up to 4 hours at any one time and up to 10 hours in total time.
 

Exercise4(SIP):    SIP signalling message collecting and analysis based on the SIP test centre

If 70% questions have been correctly solved, students will be rewarded +1p

The 2 persons’ group may be formed freely and students are assumed to have their own computers to do the exercise.

         The participation to the exercise lectures is not obligatory, although it is recommended. To be able to take the course it is required that student should get at least +2p.

The exercises should be returned before the start of the exercise lecture to the box with the course code (s-38.115) marked under the laboratory notice board on G-wing 2nd floor. Return of the exercises via email is also accepted, although the student himself is responsible for the timely delivery of the exercise answers. Each student should submit his or her own copy of individual exercise answers.

Course Schedule

Lectures cover the following topics

Schedule is under construction NOW. Details will change during the term especially concerning the VOIP related issues. Also timing may and will change as we go. Also other stuff is under construction. Lecture Notes will be published in several chuncks during the semester.
 
 

Date	Program	Dur.	Lecturer	On-line material (in pdf)
Jan 15	Introduction	2h	Raimo Kantola	Slides.pdf
Jan 17	Signaling basics, R2	2h	Raimo Kantola	Slides.pdf
Jan 22	PCM system, PCM voice, Quality of Voice	2h	Raimo Kantola	Slides.pdf
Jan 24	ISDN	2h	Vesa Kosonen	Slides.pdf
Jan 29	Exercise 1	2h	Zhou Yi	Exercise1.pdf; Introduction
Jan 31	CCS 7, MTP, SCCP	2h	Raimo Kantola	Slides.pdf
Feb 5	ISUP	2h	Raimo Kantola	Slides.pdf
Feb 7	Exercise 2 (+Induction to Ex 3)	2h	Zhou Yi	Exercise2.pdf, Induction to Ex3
Feb 12	V5	2h	Vesa Kosonen	Slides-b.pdf
Feb 14	TCAP, MAP	2h	Raimo Kantola	Slides.pdf
Feb 19	MAP	2h	Raimo Kantola	Slides.pdf
Feb 21	Intro to VOIP, RTP	2h	Raimo Kantola	Slides.pdf
Feb 26	VOIP: H.323	2h	Raimo Kantola	Slides.pdf
Feb 28	Break	2h	Zhou Yi
Mar 5	VOIP, finish H.323	1h	Raimo Kantola
Mar 7	VOIP: numbering, ENUM, TRIP, Architectures	2h	Raimo Kantola	Slides.pdf
Mar 12	break	2h	Raimo Kantola
Mar 14	VOIP: Megaco, COPS, SDP	2h	Raimo Kantola	14
Mar 19	VOIP:Diameter, NASREQ, 3G MM application	2h	Raimo Kantola	15
Mar 21	VOIP: SIP 1	2h	Raimo Kantola	Slides.pdf
Mar 26	Exercise 4 (induction) +Excercise 5	2h	Zhou Yi	Exercise4.pdf / Exercise5.pdf
Mar 28	VOIP: SIP 2	2h	Raimo Kantola	17
Apr 2	VOIP: SIP 3, use in 3G	2h	Ramio Kantola	18
Apr 4	VOIP: SIGTRAN, SCTP	2h	Raimo Kantola	Slides.pdf
Apr 9	Deadline for Exercise 3 (Postponed)	2h	Zhou Yi	Exerise3.pdf, Standard Answer sheet.xls
Apr 11		2h
Apr 16	Deadline for Exercise 4 (Postponed)	2h	Zhou Yi
Apr 18	Easter
Apr 25	Deadline for E4+QA session for E3&E4	2h	Zhou Yi

Exercise Result

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Material

• Richard Manterfield: Telecommunication Signalling; ISBN: 0-85296-761-6
• Henry Sinnreich & Alan B.Johnson: Internet Communications Using SIP; ISBN: 0-471-1399-2
• The CAL-manuals of the LM Ericsson Signaling software

• Gonzalo Camarillo: SIP Demystified, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company; ISBN: 0-07-137340-3
• Richard Swale: Voice Over IP; ISBN: 0-85296-024-7
• Joseph Y. Hui:  Switching and traffic theory for integrated broadband networks
• Roger L. Freeman: Telecommunications System Engineering 3rd ed