Fundamentals of TelecommunicationsThe Second Edition of this critically-acclaimed text continues the standard of excellence set in the first edition by providing a thorough introduction to the fundamentals of telecommunication networks without bogging you down in complex technical jargon or math. Although focusing on the basics, the book has been thoroughly updated with the latest advances in the field, including a new chapter on metropolitan area networks (MANs) and new sections on Mobile Fi, ZigBee and ultrawideband. You’ll learn which choices are now available to an organization, how to evaluate them and how to develop strategies that achieve the best balance among cost, security and performance factors for voice, data, and image communication.
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Contents
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Chapter 5 Transmission Aspects of Voice Telephony | 89 |
Chapter 6 Digital Networks | 107 |
Chapter 7 Signaling | 149 |
Chapter 8 Local and LongDistance Networks | 169 |
Chapter 15 VoiceOver Packets in a Packet Network | 387 |
Chapter 16 Television Transmission | 403 |
Chapter 17 Community Antenna Television Cable Television | 431 |
Chapter 18 Cellular and PCS Radio Systems | 457 |
Chapter 19 Advanced Broadband Digital Transport Formats | 489 |
Chapter 20 Asynchronous Transfer Mode | 511 |
Chapter 21 Network Management | 539 |
Appendix A Review of Fundamentals of Electricity with Telecommunication Applications | 575 |
Chapter 9 Concepts in Transmission Transport | 195 |
Chapter 10 Data Communications | 251 |
Chapter 11 Enterprise Networks I Local Area Networks | 291 |
Chapter 12 Enterprise Networks II Wide Area Networks | 315 |
Chapter 13 Metropolitan Area Networks | 341 |
Chapter 14 CCITT Signaling System No 7 | 361 |
Appendix B A Review of Mathematics for Telecommunication Applications | 603 |
Appendix C Learning Decibels and Their Applications | 615 |
Appendix D Acronyms and Abbreviations | 637 |
Index | 649 |
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amplifiers analog antenna bandwidth baseband basic binary bit rate bit stream carrier CATV CCITT CCITT Rec cell site circuit coaxial cable communication configuration congestion connection data link dBrnC decibels defined definition delay device electrical error example exchange fiber fiber-optic field figure first flow frame relay frequency function grade of service header identified IEEE illustrated in Figure input interface ISDN ITU-T Rec kbps layer loss Mbps microwave modulation multiplex network management node noise octets operation output packet path payload protocol provides PSTN radio receiver routing satellite Section segment sequence number shown in Figure signal unit signaling link slot SNMP SONET specific standard station subscriber loop switch synchronization TDMA telecommunication telephone terminal thermal noise traffic transmission transmitted trunk typical voice channel voltage
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Page 332 - Frame delimiting, alignment, and transparency • Frame multiplexing/demultiplexing using the address field • Inspection of the frame to ensure that it consists of an integral number of octets prior to zero bit insertion or following zero bit extraction • Inspection of the frame to ensure that it is neither too long nor too short • Detection of transmission errors • Congestion control functions The last function listed is new to LAPF.
Page 522 - This involves the insertion and removal of idle cells in order to adapt the rate of valid ATM cells to the payload capacity of the transmission system. In...
Page 522 - Extraction. These functions apply at points where the ATM layer is terminated. In the transmit direction, the cell header generation function receives a cell information field from a higher layer and generates an appropriate ATM cell header, except for the HEC sequence. This function could also include the translation from a service access point identifier to a VP and VC identifier.
Page 522 - Among the important functions of this sublayer is the generation and recovery of transmission frame. Another function is transmission frame adaptation which includes the actions necessary to structure the cell flow according to the payload structure of the transmission frame (transmit direction) and to extract this cell flow out of the transmission frame (receive direction). The transmission frame may be a cell equivalent (ie, no external envelope is added to the cell flow), an SDH/SONET envelope,...
Page 333 - Notifies the user that congestion avoidance procedures should be initiated where applicable for traffic in the opposite direction of the received frame.
Page 108 - If a band-limited signal is sampled at regular intervals of time and at a rate equal to or higher than twice the highest significant signal frequency, then the sample contains all the information of the original signal. The original signal may then be reconstructed by use of a low-pass filter.
Page 307 - SD - STARTING DELIMITER (1 OCTET) AC - ACCESS CONTROL (1 OCTET) FC - FRAME CONTROL (1 OCTET) DA - DESTINATION ADDRESS (2 OR 6 OCTETS) SA - SOURCE ADDRESS (2 OR 6 OCTETS) INFO - INFORMATION (0 OR MORE OCTETS...
Page 332 - This bit may be set by a congested network to notify the user that congestion avoidance procedures should be initiated, where applicable, for traffic in the opposite direction of the frame carrying the BECN indicator.