OT4IPT - IP Telephony

Course specification
Course title		IP Telephony
Acronym		OT4IPT
Study programme		Electrical Engineering and Computing
Module		Telecommunications and Information Technologies
Type of study		bachelor academic studies
Lecturer (for classes)		professor PhD Aleksandar Nešković
Lecturer/Associate (for practice)		professor PhD Aleksandar Nešković
Lecturer/Associate (for OTC)		professor PhD Aleksandar Nešković
ESPB		6.0	Status	elective
Condition		none
The goal		Introduction students with basic principles of voice transfer over the IP based networks. Introduction students with commercial solutions for IP telephony.
The outcome		Students should be proficient to: - do network design of telephony service based on IP telephony technology for the company with dozens of remote locations and to connect it to public switched telephone network; - configure basic telephony services in IP based telephony systems of Cisco, Siemens and Asterisk.
Contents
Contents of lectures		History of IP telephony development. Voice compression. Major techniques for voice compression, quality assessment, characteristics. Voice over IP technology. QoS requests for voice. ITU-T H.323 protocols infrastructure. IETF SIP protocols infrastructure. Signalization in IP based network. Examples of commercial solutions: Cisco Systems, Siemens, Avaya, Asterisk, Skype.
Contents of exercises		Students will familiarize with practical work with Cisco, Siemens and Asterisk communication equipment. They should be capable to do configuration of basic and some advance services in IP telephony networks.
Literature
SIP: Understanding the Session Initiation Protocol, Second Edition, Alan B. Johnston - Artech House, 2004. (Original title) IP Telephony with H.323: Architectures for Unified Networks and Integrated Services, Vineet Kumar, Markku Korpi, Senthil Senqodan – Wiley (Original title) www.cisco.com (Original title) www.asterisk.org (Original title)
Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year
Lectures	Exercises	OTC	Study and Research	Other classes
3	1	1
Methods of teaching		Teaching, exercises and practical work with communication equipment in laboratories. At the end of semester, students are doing by themselves network design of telephony network for interconnection remote locations and implementation basic and some advance telephony services with connection to public switch telephone network.
Knowledge score (maximum points 100)
Pre obligations		Points	Final exam	Points
Activites during lectures		0	Test paper	70
Practical lessons		10	Oral examination	0
Projects		0
Colloquia		20
Seminars		0