48750 Network Planning and Management

Requisite(s): 48740 Communications Networks AND 33230 Mathematical Modelling 2
Fields of practice: Telecommunications Engineering program
Undergraduate
Subject coordinator: Associate Professor Robin Braun

The objectives of this subject are for students to develop competencies needed for the planning and management of networks, particularly in the areas of traffic source modelling, performance analysis, dimensioning, simulation, and management.

Students acquire a solid foundation in: modelling of traffic and dimensioning of fixed networks and mobile networks; performance analysis of networks based on queuing theory; circuit switching networks; packet switching networks; simulation tools to model and analyse the performance of networks; network management based on the interplay between commercial and technical aspects of designing the network, utilising the technical tools learned above while meeting budget and resource constraints.

Topics include:

Part 1

Traffic source modelling; Markov chain theory; introduction to teletraffic engineering; basics of traffic system design; traffic models for loss and delay systems; traffic analysis in digital telephony; dimensioning of incoming and outgoing lines to/from PABX; dimensioning principles of mobile networks.

Part 2

Network management basics based on SNMP and the ISO MIB.

Part 3

TMF style network management paradigms.

Part 4

Network design, planning, and dimensioning

Lab part

Network simulation and modelling validation: overview of discrete event system modelling; Selected topics include single queue, single server model; single queue, multi-server model; multi-queue, multi-server model; single queue with different arrival patterns; server with service breaks.

Assessment: Typically assessment for this subject involves laboratory work and assignments as well as mid-semester and final examinations.

Typical availability

Autumn semester, City campus
Spring semester, City campus