1 ECS5365 ISDN Networks and Applications Outline Philip Branch Centre for Telecommunications and Information Engineering (CTIE) Monash University

2 Course Outline Overview of N-ISDN ISDN Services and Architectures ISDN Protocols and Signalling Overview of B-ISDN ATM Protocols and Networks ATM Traffic and Network Management ATM Signalling ATM Switch Design ATM and Other Protocols Capacity Planning for ATM Networks and Case Studies Student Presentations Summary and Review

3 Teaching and Assessment Two hours of Lectures per week for 13 weeks Assessment –Exam 50 % CLOSED BOOK –Project 40 % –Presentation / Labs 10 % Weeks 11 and 12 student presentations

4 Student Projects Either a workplace based project, or A topic from the circulating list me your three preferences in order Projects will be allocated after week 2 Project reports to be 20 to 50 pages long

5 References Stallings, W., “ISDN and Broadband ISDN with Frame Relay and ATM”, 3rd or 4th Edition, Prentice-Hall, 1995 dePrycker, M., “Asynchronous Transfer Mode: Solution for Broadband ISDN”, 3rd Edition, Prentice-Hall, 1995 Partridge, C., “Gigabit Networking”, Addison-Wesley, 1994 Australian Communications Magazine IEEE Communications Magazine IEEE Network Magazine