| 34351 Access- and Home Networks |
| Danish title: Access- og hjemmenet |
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Language: English ECTS-creditpoints: 5, External examination.
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Exam schedule:
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F3-B (jun 03 2002) |
| Scope and form: Lectures and group work |
| Evaluation: Oral exam and approvel of coursework
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| Examination: 13-scale |
| Aim: This course provides an overview on how terminals (and other devices) can be connected to a communication network. The course will cover both the traditional problem of getting connected to a public (or global) network as well as the emerging aspect of connecting devices in the private home or the local workspace. The course will cover both the physical transmission parts (wireless or wireline) as well as the protocol hierarchy aspects (mobile / fixed, packet / circuit). Finally the course will consider the impact on the general network architecture as well as control, management and planning of the network. |
| Contents: The course will consider general aspects of network access, and use specific "standards" to exemplify basic trends and differences. The course will evaluate and compare the aspect of higher capacity in wired network with the flexibility and mobility in wireless network. For the public part of the network the solutions based on reuse of existing infrastructure (such as cable-modem or xDSL) with enhanced optical feeder network (e.g. PONs) will be compared with LAN-type solutions using new cabling and wireless and mobile solutions (FWA, UMTS, GPRS etc.). In the home or workspace environment the same type of comparison between wired and wireless solutions will be made (e.g. Blue Tooth, Firewire, Hyperlan and Ethernet). The course will also cover the gateway function and seamless interworking aspects of cross-communication between the private and public domains as well as between wired and wireless domains. On the general networking aspects the course will study some of the newer ideas of restructuring the network e.g. based on a mediaconverter, that collects the different access formats and redirects data to the most appropriate bakbone or service infrastructure. For the infrastructure the planning and the administrative aspects will be covered as well with focus on the load constraints by mobile or nomadic users. |
| Contact: Lars Dittmann, building 343, (+45) 4525 3851, ld@com.dtu.dk |
| Department: 034 Research Center COM |
| Keywords: DSL, PON, FTTx, FWA, HFC, TDMA, CDMA, MAC, Media Gateway, UMTS, BlueTooth, Firewire, Hyperlan, IPv6, DMT, CAP |
| Updated: 10-05-2001 |
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