School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Telecommunication Networks
  • Unit Code

    ENS5444
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Haitham Elmohamdy KHALED

Description

This unit develops an understanding of telecommunication networking technologies, with particular emphasis on their structures, applications and services. It covers the deployment, operational and management issues related to access networks, metropolitan area networks, and long-haul networks. It evaluates alternative technologies for each segment of the network, and develops the fundamental skills for network design.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from ENS3554, ENS5343, ENS6161

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the key elements and technologies used in telecommunication networks.
  2. Design and optimise high level network architectures based on traffic demands, required services, and growth and performance requirements using appropriate tools.
  3. Design key elements of telecommunication networks.
  4. Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of combining different technologies and standards for the development of a high capacity telecommunications network.
  5. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of alternative networking technologies.
  6. Explain the current trends in telecommunications.
  7. Research new developments in the field of telecommunications and reflect critically on their significance to engineering practice.

Unit Content

  1. Fibre optic communications, Synchronous Optical Networking (SONET) and Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH).
  2. Long distance networks, design issues and network design procedures, long distance links, network management.
  3. Next generation networking and enabling technologies, passive optical networks (PON), GPON, NG-PON and XG-PON.
  4. Overview of telecommunications; regulation, switching, transmission, network access.
  5. Signalling systems for telecommunications, signalling system 7 (SS7), architecture and operation of SS7.
  6. Subscriber line technologies, DSL access technologies, wireless access technologies.
  7. Voice-over IP (VoIP), VoIP gateway, VoIP media gateway controllers and protocols.
  8. Wireless and mobile radio technologies for telecommunications.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Laboratory Work ^Network design and optimisation20%
ProjectNetwork design project25%
TestMid-semester theory test15%
Examination ^End of semester examination40%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Telecommunication Networks
  • Unit Code

    ENS5444
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Haitham Elmohamdy KHALED

Description

This unit develops an understanding of telecommunication networking technologies, with particular emphasis on their structures, applications and services. It covers the deployment, operational and management issues related to access networks, metropolitan area networks, and long-haul networks. It evaluates alternative technologies for each segment of the network, and develops the fundamental skills for network design.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from ENS3554, ENS5343, ENS6161

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the key elements and technologies used in telecommunication networks.
  2. Design and optimise high level network architectures based on traffic demands, required services, and growth and performance requirements using appropriate tools.
  3. Design key elements of telecommunication networks.
  4. Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of combining different technologies and standards for the development of a high capacity telecommunications network.
  5. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of alternative networking technologies.
  6. Explain the current trends in telecommunications.
  7. Research new developments in the field of telecommunications and reflect critically on their significance to engineering practice.

Unit Content

  1. Fibre optic communications, Synchronous Optical Networking (SONET) and Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH).
  2. Long distance networks, design issues and network design procedures, long distance links, network management.
  3. Next generation networking and enabling technologies, passive optical networks (PON), GPON, NG-PON and XG-PON.
  4. Overview of telecommunications; regulation, switching, transmission, network access.
  5. Signalling systems for telecommunications, signalling system 7 (SS7), architecture and operation of SS7.
  6. Subscriber line technologies, DSL access technologies, wireless access technologies.
  7. Voice-over IP (VoIP), VoIP gateway, VoIP media gateway controllers and protocols.
  8. Wireless and mobile radio technologies for telecommunications.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Laboratory Work ^Network design and optimisation20%
ProjectNetwork design project25%
TestMid-semester theory test15%
Examination ^End of semester examination40%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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