Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 The Arrival of ISDN

1.2 The Computer-Communications Revolution

1.3 From Communications to Computers

Preface

1.4 From Computers to Communications

1.5 Outline of This Book

PART ONE DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS FUNDAMENTALS

2.1 Analog and Digital Data Transmission

Chapter 2 Digital Transmission

2.2 Digital Encoding of Analog Data

2.3 Multiplexing

2.4 Digital Carrier Systems

2.5 Summary

2.6 Recommended Reading

2.7 Problems

Chapter 3 Line Coding and the Subscriber Line

3.1 Subscriber Line Technology

3.2 Line Coding Techniques

3.3 The U Interface

3.4 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

3.5 Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

3.6 xDSL

3.7 Summary

3.8 Recommended Reading

3.9 Problems

Appendix 3A:Scrambling and Descrambling

Chapter 4 Communication Networks

4.1 Switching Techniques

4.2 Circuit Switching

4.3 Routing for Circuit-Switching Networks

4.4 Control Signaling for Circuit-Switching Networks

4.5 Packet Switching

4.6 X.25

4.7 Comparison of Circuit and Packet Switching

4.8 Other Switching Techniques

4.9 Summary

4.10 Recommended Reading

4.11 Problems

PART TWO INTEGRATED SERVICES DIGITAL NETWORKS

Chapter 5 ISDN Overview

5.1 The Integrated Digital Network

5.2 A Conceptual View of ISDN

5.3 ISDN Standards

5.4 Recommended Reading

5.5 Problems

Appendix 5A:ITU Telecommunications Standardization Sector

Appendix 5B:ITU-T Recommendations on ISDN

6.1 Transmission Structure

Chapter 6 ISDN Interfaces and Functions

6.2 User-Network Interface Configuration

6.3 ISDN Protocol Architecture

6.4 ISDN Connections

6.5 Addressing

6.6 Interworking

6.7 Summary

6.8 Recommended Reading

6.9 Problems

Appendix 6A:ISDN Elementary Functions

7.1 Basic User-Network Interface

Chapter 7 ISDN Physical Layer

7.2 Primary Rate User-Network Interface

7.3 U Interface

7.4 Summary

7.5 Problems

Chapter 8 ISDN Data Link Layer

8.1 LAPD

8.2 Terminal Adaption

8.3 Bearer Channel Data Link Control Using I.465/V.120

8.4 Summary

8.5 Recommended Reading

8.6 Problems

Chapter 9 ISDN Network Layer

9.1 Overview

9.2 Basic Call Control

9.3 Control of Supplementary Services

9.4 Summary

9.5 Recommended Reading

9.6 Problems

10.1 Service Capabilities

Chapter 10 ISDN Services

10.2 Bearer Services and Teleservices

10.3 Basic and Supplementary Services

10.4 Summary

10.5 Problems

Chapter 11 Signaling System Number 7

11.1 SS7 Architecture

11.2 Signaling Data Link Level

11.3 Signaling Link Level

11.4 Signaling Network Level

11.5 Signaling Connection Control Part

11.6 ISDN User Part

11.7 Summary

11.8 Recommended Reading

11.9 Problems

Appendix 11A:Service Primitives and Parameters

Appendix 11B:ITU-T Recommendations on SS7

PART THREE FRAME RELAY

Chapter 12 Frame Relay Protocols and Services

12.1 Background

12.2 Frame-Mode Protocol Architecture

12.3 Frame-Mode Call Control

12.4 LAPF

12.5 Summary

12.6 Recommended Readings

12.7 Problems

Chapter 13 Frame Relay Congestion Control

13.1 Congestion in Frame Relay Networks

13.2 Approaches to Congestion Control

13.3 Traffic Rate Management

13.4 Explicit Congestion Avoidance

13.5 Implicit Congestion Control

13.6 Summary

13.7 Recommended Reading

13.8 Problems

PART FOUR BROADBAND ISDN

Chapter 14 Broadband ISDN Architecture

14.1 B-ISDN Standards

14.2 Broadband Services

14.3 Requirements

14.4 Architecture

14.5 Summary

14.6 Recommended Reading

14.7 Problems

Chapter 15 Broadband ISDN Protocols

15.1 B-ISDN Protocol Reference Model

15.2 B-ISDN Physical Layer

15.3 SONET/SDH

15.4 Summary

15.5 Recommended Reading

Appendix 15A:4B5B/NRZI Coding

15.6 Problems

PART FIVE ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE

Chapter 16 ATM Protocols

16.1 Asynchronous Transfer Mode

16.2 Transmission of ATM Cells

16.3 ATM Adaptation Layer

16.4 Summary

16.5 Recommended Reading

16.6 Problems

Chapter 17 ATM Traffic and Congestion Control

17.1 Requirements for ATM Traffic and Congestion Control

17.2 ATM Service Categories

17.3 ATM Traffic-Related Attributes

17.4 Traffic Management Framework

17.5 Traffic Management

17.6 ABR Traffic Management

17.7 Recommended Reading

17.8 Problems

A.1 Flow Control

Appendix A Flow Control,Error Detection,and Error Control

A.2 Error Detection

A.3 Error Control

Appendix B The OSI Reference Model

B.1 Motivation

B.2 Concepts

B.3 Standardization within the OSI Framework

B.4 Layers

Glossary

References

Index