Tietoliikenneohjelmistojen ja multimedian laboratorio

Telecommunications architectures

T-110.301 (4 cr) 2004

This course is no longer being taught after the year 2005 degree structure change. See the department study advisor for information about replacement courses.

News

Results of January 2005 exam
Extra homework assignment is published.
The results of 2nd mid-term exam and final exam.
All homework results are now published (see total points). Check that your points are correct.
The results of 1st mid-term exam.
You can see your paper and the grading on Friday, 19.11. at 10-11 am in room A106.
The instructions for returning homework assignments are now published.
N.B. This is the last year the course will be held in any language. This autumn is the last chance to take the course.

Course in Fall 2004

This course will be lectured in English in fall 2004. The course code is T-110.301 for the English language version of the course and the contents are the same as in the course T-110.300.

Lectures in English

Wednesday 10-12 classroom T4
Friday 8-10 classroom T3

Contents of the course

The basics of modern telecommunication systems will be discussed during the course: The most important standards, layered architectures, protocols and their general properties, the structure and function of telephone networks, common telecommunication networks and their services, mobile networks.

Prerequisites

The prerequisites for this course is T-110.250 Fundamentals of network media, T-110.249 Introduktion till modern telekommunikation or S-38.105 Principles in Communication Engineering. Additionally the student should have programming skills.

Materials

The course book is

Leon-Garcia, Widjaja, Communication Networks - Fundamental Concepts and Key Architectures, McGraw-Hill, 2000, ISBN 0-07-116840-0. Both first and second editions can be used with this course.

There shall be additional material, so order your photocopies.

Course staff

The teacher responsible for the course is Mr. Timo Kiravuo, M.Sc. (Eng.).

Course assistants:

Nadja Kasinskaja (head assistant)
Jukka Larja
Paula Nieminen
Kim Nylund
Liia Sarjakoski

Reception hours

Lecturer's reception hours are on Fridays, 10-11 in room A109.
The course newsgroup is opinnot.tik.tlark (web interface). In matters concerning your own studies, please use the course address tlarktml.hut.fi.

The course IRC channel is #tlark on IRCNet. The staff is present on the channel during the reception hours (Thursdays 14-15), but you can most likely reach someone from the staff at other times too.

Course requirements

In order to pass the course you have to pass the exam or mid-term exams, and home assignments. The grade is based on the exam (or mid-term exams) grade and a possible raise from the assignments.

The course has six obligatory home assignments. You need 25% of each assignment's maximum points AND 50% of all assignment points to pass the course.

By earning 80% of all points you get a +1 raise to course grade. A failed examination (grade 0) can not be raised to grade 1.

Exams and completed assignments passed on autumn 2002 or later are valid on this course. However, exams or home assignments passed this autumn won't be valid later, since this is the last time the course is held in its present form.

The course in previous years

Fall 2003
Fall 2002
Fall 2001

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