Teletraffic Engineering

Објавено: October 12, 2018
  1.    Course Title Teletraffic Engineering
  2.    Code 3ФЕИТ10Л039
  3.    Study program TKII
  4.    Organizer of the study program (unit, institute, department) Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies
  5.    Degree (first, second, third cycle) First cycle
  6.    Academic year/semester III/6   7.    Number of ECTS credits 6.00
  8.    Lecturer Dr Vladimir Atanasovski
  9.    Course Prerequisites Taken course: Applied operating systems in telecommunications

10.    Course Goals (acquired competencies):  Introduction to the teletraffic engineering concepts and network planning and dimensioning principles in ICT systems. Study of all relevant mathematical formulae in the teletraffic theory. Analysis of real ICT systems, their dimensioning, maintenance and operation.

11.    Course Syllabus: Introduction. Telecommunications traffic terminology. Models and characteristics of ICT systems. Birth and death process. Markov chains. Statistical characterization of traffic. Traffic descriptors. QoS mechanisms. Loss systems. Delay systems. Traffic aspects in dimensioning ICT systems. Queueing systems. Application of queueing theory. Internet traffic and corresponding modeling. Traffic measurements.

12.    Learning methods:  Lectures, tutorial and laboratory classes, independent students work on project tasks and seminar works
13.    Total number of course hours 3 + 1 + 1 + 0
14.    Distribution of course hours 180
15.    Forms of teaching 15.1. Lectures-theoretical teaching 45
15.2. Exercises (laboratory, practice classes), seminars, teamwork 30
16.    Other course activities 16.1. Projects, seminar papers 30
16.2. Individual tasks 30
16.3. Homework and self-learning 45
17.    Grading 17.1. Exams 20
17.2. Seminar work/project (presentation: written and oral) 20
17.3. Activity and participation 10
17.4. Final exam 50
18.    Grading criteria (points) up to 50 points     5 (five) (F)
from 51 to 60 points     6 (six) (E)
from 61 to 70 points     7 (seven) (D)
from 71 to 80 points     8 (eight) (C)
from 81 to 90 points     9 (nine) (B)
from 91 to 100 points   10 (ten) (A)
19.    Conditions for acquiring teacher’s signature and for taking final exam Regular participation to lectures and tutorial classes and completion of all laboratory exercises
20.    Forms of assessment Two partial exams during the semester (in the middle and in the end of the semester) with a duration of 120 minutes each or one full exam in a corresponding exam session with a duration of 120 minutes. Usage of books, hand-written materials or any kind of supplementary text book during the exam is not allowed, only a calculator is allowed
21.    Language Macedonian and English
22.    Method of monitoring of teaching quality Internal evaluation and polls
23.    Literature
23.1. Required Literature
No. Author Title Publisher Year
1 V. B. Iversen Teletraffic Engineering and Network Planning ITU Handbook 2015
2 G. Giambene Queing Theory and Telecommunications: Networks and Applications Springer 2013
3 L. Kleinrock Queuing Systems, Vol. 1 and 2 Wiley 1975