CIS 49.1: Telecommunications
            Text - Data and Computer Communications, 7th ed.
           Reference #1 - Wireless Communications and Networks
        Reference #2 - High Speed Networks and Internets 2nd ed.
                    by - W. Stallings (Prentice-Hall)

                             Course Outline

1. Introduction to Telecommunications
     Chapters 1, 2, 6 (section 6.1), and 10:
     - Telecommunications Basics
     - Data, Signals, and Transmission
     - Analog vs. Digital
     - Channel Types: Simplex, Half-Duplex, Full-Duplex
     - Parallel vs. Serial Transmission
     - Asynchronous vs. Synchronous Transmission

2. Data Transmission Fundamentals
     Chapter 3: 3.2, 3.3, 3.5, 3.6, 3.8, 3.10, 3.13, 3.15, 3.16, 3.18, 3.19
     Appendix B: (additional homework)
     - Time Domain Concepts
     - Frequency Domain Representation of Signals
     - Bandwidth
     - Filters
     - Transmission Impairments: Attenuation, Delay Distortion, Noise, Echo
     - Channel Capacity

3. Data Encoding
     Chapter 5: 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 5.19, 5.20
     Chapter 8: 8.1, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9, 8.12, 8.13
     - Digital Data <---> Digital Signals
     - Digital Data <---> Analog Signals
     - Modems
     - Analog Data <---> Digital Signals
     - Speech Encoding: PCM, ADPCM
     - Analog Data <---> Analog Signals
     - Muliplexing: FDM & TDM
     - DSL Lines: T-1, E-1, ISDN, ADSL, xDSL
     - ISDN BRI and PRI Channels and Services

4. Transmission Error Control:
     Chapter 6: 6.12, 6.13, 6.14, 6.16
     Reference #1 - Chapter 8: (handouts)
     - Transmission Error Sources
     - Error Detection Techniques: Parity Checks, Block Codes, CRCs
     - Error Correction Coding: Hamming Codes
     - BCH, Reed-Solomon, and Convolutional Codes

5. Data Compression
     Reference #2 - Chapters 19, 20, and 21: (handouts)
     - Lossless vs. Lossy Compression
     - Huffman Coding
     - Fax Compression: MH, MR, MMR
     - Arithmetic Coding
     - LZ and LZW Algorithms
     - JPEG and MPEG Compression

6. Telephony Signaling
     Lecture Notes & Chapter 10
     - Architecture of a Public Telephone Network
     - The Local (Subscriber) Loop
     - Making a Phone Call: Control Signaling
     - In-Channel vs. Common Channel Signaling
     - Loop Signaling: On-Hook Off-Hook Signaling
     - Analog Telephony Signaling
     - Digital Telephony Signaling: T-1, E-1
     - DID, DNIS, and ANI Services
     - Interoffice Signaling
     - Signaling System No. 7 (SS7)
     - SS7 Protocol Architecture: MTP, SCCP, TUP, ISUP

7. Wireless and Cellular Communications:
     Chapter 9: 9.4, 9.5, 9.7
     Chapter 14: 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
     - Cellular Telephony
     - The Mobile Telephone Switching Office (MTSO)
     - Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS)
     - Cellular and Cordless Network Reference Models
     - IS-41 North American Cellular Signaling Protocol
     - The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
     - IS-54 North American Digital TDMA Cellular Standard
     - IS-95 North American Digital CDMA Cellular Standard

8. Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Networks:
     Chapter 11: 11.1, 11.3, 11.7
     - ATM Protocol Architecture
     - ATM Logical Connections
     - ATM Cells
     - Transmission of ATM Cells
     - SONET/SDH
     - ATM Services
     - ATM Adaptation Layer (AAL)
     - ATM Traffic Management
     - ATM LANs