307640 (v.3) Broadband Networks 602

Area:

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

3.0

** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **

Lecture:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Syllabus:

Review of telecommunications networks, network architectures, resource and traffic management, the OSI reference model, layer services, synchronous transfer mode, the asynchronous transfer mode and the integrated network, link layer, multi-access protocols for local area networks, distributed LAN multi-access protocols, B_ISBN network and protocol architecture, ATM network resource management-call admission control, framework for traffic and congestion control, ATM layer bearer capabilities, deterministic cell rate bearer capability, ATM block transfer (ABT) bearer capabilities, controlled cell transfer (CCT) bearer capability, generic flow control at UNI (GFC_U), generic flow control at NNI (GFC_N), cell transfer protocol (CTP), Internet working protocol(IP).

** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **

Field of Education:

031305 Computer Engineering

Funding Cluster:

08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2006	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External