EEE 441: Telecommunication Engineering

3 credits, 3 hours/week

Course Teacher:
Mohammad Asif Zaman
Lecturer,
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka – 1000.

Email: zaman@eee.buet.ac.bd , asifzaman13@gmail.com

Website: http://teacher.buet.ac.bd/zaman/ , http://sites.google.com/site/asifzaman13/

Marks distribution:

Attendance 10%

Continuous assessment
20%
(class test + class performance + assignments)

Term final exam 70%

Instructions regarding class and class tests:

- Cell phones must be turned off or kept silent during class. Students are requested not to receive
or make any phone calls during class.

- Four class tests will be taken. Date of class tests will be announced at least 5 days before. Once
a date has been announced, it will not be changed. In case of government holidays or other such
events coincide with a scheduled class test date, the class test will be automatically shifted to
the next available class without any further notice.

- Class test marks and solutions will be available on the website (http://teacher.buet.ac.bd/zaman/
or http://sites.google.com/site/asifzaman13/ ). Additional course materials may also be uploaded
on the site. Students are advised to check the website regularly for updates regarding the course.
Course Syllabus:

Introduction: Principle, evolution, networks, exchange and international regulatory bodies.

Telephone Apparatus: Microphone, speakers, ringer, pulse and tone dialing mechanism, side-tone
mechanism, local and central batteries and advanced features.

Switching System: Introduction to analog system, digital switching systems, space division switching,
blocking probability and multistage switching, time division switching, and two dimensional switching.

Traffic Analysis: Traffic characterization, grades of service, network blocking probabilities, delay
system and queuing.

Modern Telephone Services and Network: Internet telephony, facsimile, integrated services digital
network, asynchronous transfer mode and intelligent networks.

Introduction to Cellular Telephony

Introduction to Satellite Communication

Reference texts:

1. Digital Telephony

John C. Bellamy

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

2. Telecommunications Switching, Traffic and Networks

J. E. Flood

Pearson Education, Inc and Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc.

3. Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems

(3rd Edition)

B. P. Lathi

Oxford University Press, Inc.