Communications Networks

Network planning principles; standards. Modeling and simulation basics: network traffics and network nodes. Queuing theory fundamentals, resources and services demand calculations; forecasting and QoS issues. Network reliability. ISO-OSI reference model. Network protocols: specification. SS7 Signaling fundamentals. Network protocol architectures basics: LAN, MAN, WAN (Internet), ISDN, B-ISDN, ATM and GSM networks: Architectures and Operations.