Telecommunication System Engineering

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ISBN: 9780471451334 | 0471451339
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 6/11/2004

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From the review of the Third Edition: "A must for anyone in volved in the practical aspects of the telecommunications industry."-CHOICE * Outlines the expertise essential to the successful operation and design of every type of telecommunications networks in use today * New edition is fully revised and expanded to present authoritative coverage of the important developments that have taken place since the previous edition was published * Includes new chapters on hot topics such as cellular radio, asynchronous transfer mode, broadband technologies, and network management

Preface
Basic Telephony
Definition and Concept
Telecommunication Networks
The Simple Telephone Connection
Sources and Sinks
Telephone Networks: Introductory Terminology
Essentials of Traffic Engineering
Introduction and Terminology
Measurement of Telephone Traffic
Blockage, Lost Calls, and Grade of Service
Availability
"Handling" of Lost Calls
Infinite and Finite Sources
Probability-Distribution Curves
Smooth, Rough, and Random Traffic
Erlang and Poisson Traffic Formulas
Alternative Traffic Formula Conventions
Computer Programs for Traffic Calculations
Waiting Systems (Queueing)
Server-Pool Traffic
Dimensioning and Efficiency
Alternative Routing
Efficiency versus Circuit Group Size
Bases of Network Configurations
Introductory Concepts
Higher-Order Star Network
Variations in Traffic Flow
One-Way and Both-Way (Two-Way) Circuits
Quality of Service
Local Networks
Introduction
Subscriber Loop Design
General
Quality of a Telephone Speech Connection
Subscriber Loop Design Techniques
Current Loop Design Techniques Used in North America
Previous Design Rules
Current Loop Design Rules
Size of an Exchange Area Based on Number of Subscribers Served
Shape of a Serving Area
Exchange Location
Design of Local Area Analog Trunks (Junctions)
Voice-Frequency Repeaters
Tandem Routing
Dimensioning of Trunks
Community of Interest
Switching in an Analog Environment
Introduction
Background and Approach
Switching in the Telephone Network
Numbering, One Basis of Switching
Concentration and Expansion
Basic Switching Functions
Introductory Switching Concepts
Electromechanical Switching
Multiples and Links
Definitions: Degeneration, Availability, and Grading
Degeneration
Availability
Grading
The Crossbar Switch
System Control
Introduction
Interexchange Control Register
Common Control (Hard-Wired)
Stored-Program Control
Introduction
Basic Functions of Stored-Program Control
Evolutionary Stored Program Control and Distributed Processing
Concentrators, Outside Plant Modules, Remote Switching, and Satellites
Call Charging: European versus North American Approaches
Transmission Factors in Switching
Discussion
Zero Test Level Point
Numbering Concepts for Telephony
Introduction
Definitions
Factors Affecting Numbering
In-Dialing
Telephone Traffic Measurement
Dial-Service Observation
Signaling for Analog Telephone Networks
Introduction
Supervisory Signaling
E and M Signaling
AC Signaling
General
Low-Frequency AC Signaling Systems
In-Band Signaling
Out-of-Band Signaling
Address Signaling: Introduction
Two-Frequency Pulse Signaling
Multifrequency Signaling
Compelled Signaling
Link-by-Link versus End-to-End Signaling
The Effects of Numbering on Signaling
Associated and Disassociated Channel Signaling
Signaling in the S
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