Description:

Status quo and trends in telecommunications systems applied in cyber infrastructure, technical, economical and legal aspects of telecommunications networks design and services provisioning, identification and quantification of hiererchical telecommunications networks and services performance, telecommunication services dedicated for transport and specifically Smart Cities solutions.

Contents:

1. Telecommunication systems as part of cyber infrastructure
2. Basic concepts and arrangement of telecommunication networks (telecommunication networks and services, telecommunication networks, link/packet principles, physical transmission layer, coding, modulation, network hierarchy)
3. Backbone and access telecommunication systems, (backbone solutions, terrestrial access networks),
4. Data systems (RM OSI and TCP/IP, TCP/IP and its role in telecommunications, Ethernet protocol, genesis and its current role in telecommunications, quality-controlled data telecommunications services, VPN, Internet/Intranet/Extranet,
5. Wireless access systems (WiFi)
6. Mobile telecommunication networks and services, individual generations, state of the industry and development trends
7. Telecommunication solutions for smart cities and transport systems

Seminar contents:

1. Practical use cases of the discussed telecommunication technologies and principles are discussed at the seminars.
2. Students perform 2 laboratory tasks focused on practical verification of the discussed knowledge.
? The first task is in the field of Ethernet and structured cabling,
? the second task concerns IP networks, WiFi technologies and the use of diagnostic tools.
3. Students will take part in an excursion to the Certilab laboratory

Recommended literature:

MS POP presentation, Sauter, M.: From GSM to LTE-A. John Wiley &Sons, 2014, ISBN: 9780470978238,
Jirovsky, V., Novak, M., Svitek, M., Votruba, Z., Zelinka, T.,: Transport Telematics ? Systemic View. Edited by Tomas Zelinka. WSEAS press, Athens 2013, ISBN: 978-1-61804-144-9,

Keywords:

telecommunications as cyber infrastructure for smart cities, telecommunication networks and services, telecommunications networks architecture, service quality management, networks and services performance parameters

Abbreviations used:

Semester:

• W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
• S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
• W,S ... both semesters

Mode of completion of the course:

• A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
• GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
• EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
• A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)

Weekly load (hours per week):

• P ... lecture
• C ... seminar
• L ... laboratory
• R ... proseminar
• S ... seminar