Telecommunicatie

6 ECTS credits
168 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1018639BNR for all students in the 1st semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.

Semester

1st semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Taught in

Dutch

Faculty

Faculteit Ingenieurswetenschappen

Department

Industriële ingenieurswetenschappen

Educational team

Kris Steenhaut (course titular)
Roald Van Glabbeek
Diana Deac

Activities and contact hours

30 contact hours Lecture
18 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
28 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

Lecture:

Two lessons will be organized according to the principle of a flipped classroom. The students watch several videos and a discussion follows in class.

The basic concepts of datacommunications and their evolution are introduced. The concepts introduced previously are illustrated by means of descriptions of actual circuit switching and packet switching networks and it is shown how the described networks can be combined into a single internet.

Basic concepts datatransmission
The layered model for telecommunication networks
Introduction to the internet technology and the applications
Datatransmission on the physical layer
- Theorema of Shannon
- Timing en clockinfo
- Modulation techniques
- MODEMs
- Packet versus circuit switching
- Multiplexing- and codingstechniques

Routing
Circuit switched WANs and LANs
Internetworking with TCP-IP

Laboratory Practicals:

The laboratory practicals support the theoretical course.

The practicals should be prepared beforehand and are carried out independently by the student.

they demonstrates the basic concepts of Wireless transmission by means of the deployment of Wireless Sensor Nodes.
With these nodes several small network topologies are built.

Self study:

Students prepare the installation of the operating system of the nodes and study its basic functioning. They continue to work on the assessments that have been started in the lab.

Course material

Digital course material (Required) : Telecommunicatie, K. Steenhaut, J. Tiberghien, Canvas
Handbook (Recommended) : Computernetwerken, A. Tanenbaum, 5de, Pearson education Benelux, 9789043021203, 2012
Handbook (Recommended) : Computernetwerken, Een top-downbenadering, J.F. Kurose en K. Ross, 7de, Pearson, 9789043036214, 2018
Handbook (Recommended) : Computer Networks, A top down approach, J.F. Kurose en K. Ross, 7de, Pearson, 9781292405469, 2021

Additional info

Description tutoring: after class, by appointment or via email.

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

BaLO_1 To possess in-depth, application-oriented knowledge, understanding and practical skills related to mathematics and science, directed towards engineering applications.
BaLO_2 To possess application-oriented knowledge, understanding and skills about engineering sciences and engineering techniques.
BaLO_9 To demonstrate an engineering attitude: attention to planning, to technical, economic and societal factors as well as managerial implications, assessment of the risks and feasibility of the proposed approach or solution, being result-driven and achieving effective solutions, innovative thinking.
BaLO_10 To correctly handle the scientific and discipline-specific terminology in language relevant to the programme.
BaLO_11 To present and communicate the results of technical and scientific work, in writing, orally and visually.
BaLO_12 To be able to work in a team in different roles, to have insight in one's performance; to take shared responsibility for determining and achieving the goals of the team.
BaLO_13 To act in an ethical and socially responsible manner with attention to technical, economic, human and sustainability aspects.
BaSLO_14-ELO To possess application-oriented knowledge, understanding and skills in the broad field of engineering sciences and engineering techniques for electronics and ICT engineering.

Objectives

D1: rules the principles of digital signal transmission and applies them (physical layer, wired and wireless) (BaLO 1, 2, BaSLO 14 ELO)
D2: rules the principles of the datalink layer (Medium Access Layer and Link Control) (BaSLO 14 ELO)
D3: rules the principles of the network layer and applies them (routerings algorithms, addressing) (BaSLO 14 ELO)
D4: rules the principles of the internetworking layer and applies them (IP protocol) (BaSLO 14 ELO)
D5: rules the principles of the transport layer and session layer (TCP, UDP, SIP) (BaSLO 14 ELO)
D6: rules the principles of the network applications and the application layer (FTP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP) (BaSLO 14 ELO)
D7: rules the principles of the circuit switched (telephone)networks and service integration (BaSLO 14 ELO )
D8: rapports in a scientific, clear and comprehensive way in the English language (BaLO 10, 11)
D9: can do laboratory practicals in a (an international) team or with international coaches (BaLO 12)

AD1: reasons and acts in a structured and systematic way (BaLO 9)
AD2: communicates in English in a comprehensible and structured manner (BaLO 10,11)
AD3: develops a professional attitude (BaLO 9, 10,13)

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Other Exam with a relative weight of 100 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Note: Exam time 1st session:
Lecture: oral exam with written preparation: 70% (not transferred to 2nd session)
Laboratory practicals and self study:
- oral exam with written preparation: 20% (not transferred to 2nd session)
- realisation of task and self study: 10% (immediately transferred to 2nd session)
Exam time 2nd session:
Lecture: oral exam with written preparation: 70%
Laboratory practicals:
- oral exam with written preparation: 20%
- realisation of task and self study: 10% (immediately transferred from 1st session)

Not observing the laboratory regulations during the preparation, execution and/or reporting of the practicum, may result in a zero for the considered practicum.

Additional info regarding evaluation

An illegitimate absence of more than 25 % at the laboratory practicals leads to an absent quotation for the laboratory practicals. The sanctions taken in the first exam session are transferred to the second exam session.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context