Telecommunication Networks / Edition 2

by J.E. Flood

Overview

Telecommunications is vital to modern life, and the global telecommunication network that has developed is an essential part of the infrastructure of society. Although there is an extensive literature on many aspects of telecommunication technology, comparatively little has been published on the functioning and planning of complete telecommunication networks. The first edition of this book was intended to help fill that gap and this new edition has been thoroughly revised and includes much new material.

The initial chapters describe the structure of local, national and international networks, and cover switching systems, transmission systems, signalling, numbering schemes, routeing ard call charging. The principles of traffic engineering, mobile networks, ISDN, ATM, intelligent networks, network management, investment appraisal and network planning are also explained. Although the book mainly deals with public telephone networks, there is also a chapter on private networks and data networks. Finally, the principles explained in the earlier chapters are illustrated by several case studies on network planning.

The book is intended both to provide the young engineer with a general knowledge of telecommunications and to give the experienced specialist a deeper understanding of his/her own work against the background of the complete telecommunication network. The book evolved from IEE vacation schools at Aston University, and the chapters are mainly based on teaching contributions made by the authors at these schools.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780852968864
Publisher:	The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Publication date:	06/30/1997
Series:	Telecommunications
Edition description:	2nd Revised ed.
Pages:	540
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

J.E. Flood is Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Universityof Aston, Birmingham, UK. He joined the university after 20 years in the telecommunications industry/during which time he held a variety of positions including that of Chief Engineer of the Advanced Development Laboratories of the Telecommunications Division of Associated Electrical Industries Ltd. He has served on many bodies concerned with the development of telecommunications, and has been Chairman of the IEE Professional Group Committee on Telecommunication Networks and Systems and the BT Standards Committee.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Network structure
• Chapter 3: Transmission principles
• Chapter 4: Transmission systems
• Chapter 5: Switching principles
• Chapter 6: Digital time-division switching systems
• Chapter 7: Stored-program control
• Chapter 8: Signalling
• Chapter 9: Numbering, routing and charging
• Chapter 10: Teletraffic engineering
• Chapter 11: Private telecommunication networks
• Chapter 12: Mobile communications
• Chapter 13: Packet switching
• Chapter 14: Integrated services digital networks
• Chapter 15: Broadband networks
• Chapter 16: Intelligent networks
• Chapter 17: Network performance
• Chapter 18: Network management
• Chapter 19: Network economics
• Chapter 20: Network planning
• Chapter 21: Case studies

Editorial Reviews

'An encyclopedic work & covering all aspects of telecommunications, from the historic to the economic. No facet of the field is omitted.'

Telecommunication Journal of Australia

"An encyclopedic work & covering all aspects of telecommunications, from the historic to the economic. No facet of the field is omitted."

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