ECE639

ECE639
Principles of Broadband ISDN and ATM
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology

Nirwan Ansari
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Newark College of Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology

Office	343 ECEC
E-mail	nirwan.ansari@njit.edu
Phone	(973) 596-3670
Fax	(973) 596-5680
Office Hours	Wed:1-2pm; Thur: 5-6pm. Others by appointments.

Grading

Grading: Examinations 80%; Assignments & Projects 20%.

Course Outline
Lecture 1	Introduction: highlights on broadband, existing telecommunication infrastructure, Internet evolution, and virtual private network
Lecture 2	Switching Techniques, T1, X.25, ISDN, SONET
Lecture 3	Enabling Technologies and Emerging Markets Towards an Integrated Seamless Broadband Network
Lecture 4	ATM Basics
Lecture 5	Congestion Control for Available Bit Rate Services in ATM Networks
Lecture 6	Traffic Modeling of Broadband Services
Lecture 7	Admission Control
Lecture 8	Switching Principles and Architectures
Lecture 9	Traffic Scheduling
Lecture 10	IP/ATM Convergence
Lecture 11	Recent Advances in High Speed Networks

Text and References

A. Leon-Garcia and I. Widjaja, Communications Networks, 2nd Edition, McGraw Hill, 2004.