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S-38.165 Switching Technology (3 cr)

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Spring 2003

NEWs

• 23.9.2003 The results of the exam on 3.9 can be found here. The complain session for the exam will be held 2.10 at 15-16 pm. If you're coming e-mail Pertti Raatikainen (pertti.raatikainen@vtt.fi). If no one e-mails there will be no complain session.
• 19.8.2003 After the exam in september (3.9) there will be no more exams on this course this year.
• 11.7.2003 The complain session for the exam on 2.6 will be held 21.8 at 2 pm at Otakaari 7B. If you're coming e-mail Pertti Raatikainen (pertti.raatikainen@vtt.fi) before 18.8. If no one e-mails there will be no complain session.
• 9.6.2003 The results of the exam on 2.6 can be found here
• 28.5.2003 Points after bonus excercise can be seen here
• 19.5.2003 Exam results have been published.Monday, May 19, 2003
• 6.5.2003 Bonusexercises are now available. Because they came available later than promised also return date is moved. Answers should be returned by 16.00 o'clock 22.5.
• 6.5.2003 The exercise points will be counted as such for the first exam student participates. In following exams only 2.0 exam points are added to exam points.
• 28.4.2003 Final exercise points can be found here.
• 24.4.2003 Exam is on Wednesday 7th May (no on 6th as mentioned before), 16-19 in lecutre hall S1
• 24.4.2003There will be summer exam on this course on 2th June 12-15 in HUT main building. Registrate via wwwTopi before 29.5.
• 31.1.2003 Every student must do homeworks by himself. It is not allowed to copy answers from your friend and then return them as your own answers. One can be punished if plagiarism is noticed.

General: Spring 2003 is lectured in Finnish. Course can be passed in English (material is in English).

Content: For example

• Structure and implementation of switching fabrics.
• Multistage switching fabrics, complexity and capacity.
• ATM-switches, Gbit/s-routers, optical switching elements.
• Basics of WDM-technology: static networks, wavelenghtrouting, logically routed networks.

Prerequisites: Course S-38.108 Communication Networks Architectures or equivalent (such as S-72.423 Telecommunication Systems or T-110.300 Telecommunications architectures).

Registration: You must registrate via WWW-TOPI. About possible changes information is shared on lectures, Networking laboratory's notice board and www-pages. Follow also newsgroupopinnot.sahko.s-38.tietoverkkotekniikka.

Lectures (3 hours/week): Lectures are held on Tuesdays 13-16 in S2 . First lecture will be 14.1.2003 and the last15.4.2003. You can order lecture material from Edita

Exercises (2 hours/occasion): Exercises will be on Thursdays 10-12 in E110. First exercise will be on 23.1.2003 and the last 24.4.2003.
It is possible to get extra points from exercises (0-6).
More information about exercises. Coefficient in the formula alpha=1.1.

New! Points from two first exercises can be found here
Notice! You have to get at least 2 points from exercises to be able to participate the examination.

Bonusexercuses: Those students who do not achieve 2.00 points from exercises can do bonus exercises.
This exercise will be graded as usual and it is possible to achieve 1 point from this exercise. Anyway, for those who do not achieve 2.00 points from usual exercises the final points can not be more than 2.00. (So this exercise can be done to achieve participation right for the exam).
Exercise answers should be returned on 22.5. 16.00 in course's box. Grading will be on course's webpage on .
If a student achieves 2.00 points after bonus exercises she/he can participate the examination on 2nd of June.

Examination: First examination will be on Tuesday 7.5.2003, 16-19 in S1. There will be two exams during fall 2003. Examination area is lecture and exercises material.
There will be five questions in exam, each grated 0-6 points.

Requirements: You have to get 15 point together from exercises and examination to pass the course.

Teachers:

• Lectures: Prof. Pertti Raatikainen (pertti.raatikainen@vtt.fi)
• Harjoitukset: Lic.Sc.(Tech.) Kari Seppänen (kari.seppanen@vtt.fi)

Timetable:

Week	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
Lecture	1	2	3	4	5	--	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
Exercise	--	1	--	2	3	--	--	4	--	5	--	6	--	--	7

Preliminary content: L= lecture, E = Exercise

Date	L/E	Subject	Material	Answers
14.1.	L	Introduction to switching	L1_slides
21.1.	L	Transport and multiplexing	L2_slides
23.1.	E	Exercise 1	Ex_1
28.1.	L	Basics of switch fabrics	L3_slides
4.2.	L	Switch fabric architectures 1	L4_slides
6.2.	E	Exercise 2	Ex_2
11.2.	L	Switch fabric architectures 2	L5_slides
13.2.	E	Exercise 3	Ex_3
25.2.	L	Self-routing and sorting newtorks	L6_slides
4.3.	L	Switch fabric implementations	L7_slides
6.3.	E	Exercise 4	Ex_4
11.3.	L	PDH switches	L8_slides
18.3.	L	ATM switches	L9_slides
20.3.	E	Exercise 5	Ex_5
25.3.	L	Routers	L10_slides
1.4.	L	Introduction to optical networks	L11_slides
3.4.	E	Exercise 6	Ex_6
8.4.	L	Optical network architectures	L12_slides
15.4.	L	Optical switching	L13_slides
24.4.	E	Exercise 7	Ex_7

Reference material:

• [1] Understanding Telecommunications 1, Ericsson & Telia, Studentlitteratur 2001, ISBN 91-44-00212-2, Chapters 2-4.
• [2] J. Hui: Switching and traffic theory for integrated broadband networks, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990, ISBN 0-7923-9061-X, Chapters 1-5.
• [3] A. Pattavina: Switching Theory - ARchitecture and Performance in Broadband ATM Networks, John Wiley & Sons (Chichester), 1998, ISBN 0-471-96338-0, Chapters 2-4.
• [4] T.E. Stern and K. Bala, Multiwavelength Optical Networks: A Layered Approach, Addison-Wesley, 1999, ISBN 0-201-30967-X.
• [5] R. Ramaswami and K. Sivarajan, Optical Networks, A Practical Perspective, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 2nd Ed. 2002 (suitable parts), ISBN 1-55860-655-6.

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