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S-38.165 Switching Technology (3 cr)

Spring 2004 course information

Announcements

• 26.1.2005 The results of 2.9 exam can be found here. Exam review session will be held on Tuesday 1.2 at 12.30-13 in room S2.
• 4.1.2005 The next exam is going to be 17.1 at 9-12 in S4.
• 7.9.2004 The results of 2.9 exam can be found here. Exam review session will be held on Friday 10.9 at 11-11.30 in room E220 but only if anyone wants to. So if you want to review your exam send mail to Pertti Raatikainen by 9.9. (pertti.raatikainen@vtt.fi)
• 24.5.2004 The results of 5.5 exam can be found here. Exam review session will be held on Friday 28.5 at 10-10.30 in room F201.
• 26.2.2004 The lecture on 16.3. is cancelled. The lecture will be held on Thursday 11.3. at 10.00-12.00 in class E110.

General: Course in Spring 2004 is given in Finnish, but the lecture material is in English.

Status:
The course is part of the Networking Technology major and is

• obligatory in the Switching and Networking Technology path and
• recommended in the Computer Networks path.

Objectives:
Topics covered by the course include

• Switch fabric architectures and implementation alternatives
• Multi-stage switch fabrics and their complexity, scalability and throughput
• PDH and ATM switches, Gbit/s-routers and optical switching elements
• Basics of WDM technology: static networks, wavelength and waveband routing as well as logically routed networks

Prerequisite: S-72.423 Telecommunication Systems and S-38.188 Computer networks.

Registration and info:
Obligatory registration is via WWW-TOPI. Possible changes in the course will be announced at lectures, lab's bulletin board and on this web page. Please, follow also information in the news group opinnot.sahko.s-38.tietoverkkotekniikka.

Lectures:
Lectures are given on Tuesdays in S2 at 13-16, starting on 20.1.2004. The last lecture is on 20.4.2004. Lecture material will be as a compendium via Edita. The material will also become available on this web page (see Preliminary schedule/material).

Exercises:
Exercises are held on Thursdays in E110 at 10-12. The first exercise is on 22.1.2004 and the last one on 22.4.2004. Active students can gain 0 - 6 exercise points, which are accounted when determining the grade of an exam. The extra points are valid in exams arranged in the year 2004. More information on exercises.

Examination:
The first exam is on 5.5.2004 in S1 at 16-19. Two additional exams will be organised in the autumn 2004. Exams will be based on the material presented in the lectures and exercises in the spring 2004.

An examination includes five questions and each of them gives 0 - 6 points. The grade of an exam is based on the points yielded from the exam and extra points yielded from the exercises.

Course completion: To complete the course, one has to pass the examination.

Lecturers:

• Lectures: Pertti Raatikainen (pertti.raatikainen@vtt.fi), research prof.
• Exersises: Kari Seppänen (kari.seppanen@vtt.fi), lic. tech.

Weekly schedule:

Week	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Lecture	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	--	13	--
Exercise	--	1	--	2	3	--	4	--	5	--	6	--	--	7	--

Preliminary schedule: L = lecture, E = exercise

Day	L/E	Topic	Material	Solutions
20.1.	L	Introduction to switching	L1_slides
27.1.	L	Transmission techniques and multiplexing	L2_slides
29.1.	E	Exercise 1	Ex_1
3.2.	L	Basics concepts of switch fabrics	L3_slides
10.2.	L	Multistage fabric architectures 1	L4_slides
12.2.	E	Exercise 2	Ex_2
17.2.	L	Multistage fabric architectures 2	L5_slides
19.2.	E	Exercise 3	Ex_3
24.2.	L	Self-routing and sorting networks	L6_slides
2.3.	L	Switch fabric implementations	L7_slides
4.3.	E	Exercise 4	Ex_4
9.3.	L	PDH switches	L8_slides
11.3.	L	ATM switches	L9_slides
18.3.	E	Exercise 5	Ex_5
23.3.	L	Routers	L10_slides
30.3.	L	Introduction to optical networks	L11_slides
1.4.	E	Exercise 6	Ex_6
6.4.	L	Optical network architectures	L12_slides
20.4.	L	Optical switches	L13_slides
22.4.	E	Exercise 7	Ex_7

Course books:

• Understanding Telecommunications 1, Ericsson & Telia, Studentlitteratur 2001, ISBN 91-44-00212-2, Chapters 2-4.
• J. Hui: Switching and traffic theory for integrated broadband networks, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990, ISBN 0-7923-9061-X, Chapters 1-5.
• H.J. Chao, C.H. Lam and E. Oki: Broadband Packet Switching Technologies - A Practical Guide to ATM Switches and IP Routers, John Wiley & Sons, 2001, ISBN 0-471-00454-5
• A. Pattavina: Switching Theory - Architecture and Performance in Broadband ATM Networks, John Wiley & Sons, 1998, ISBN 0-471-96338-0, Chapters 2-4.
• T.E. Stern and K. Bala, Multiwavelength Optical Networks: A Layered Approach, Addison-Wesley, 1999, ISBN 0-201-30967-X.
• R. Ramaswami and K. Sivarajan, Optical Networks, A Practical Perspective, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 2nd Ed. 2002 (soveltuvin osin), ISBN 1-55860-655-6.

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