Introduction to object-oriented design principles and standard languages for designing and specifying telecommunications systems. The course will begin with an overview of basic concepts, structures and syntax and shows how to specify protocols with object-oriented description languages (SDL).

The student is given practical knowledge of object-oriented design principles and the definition and specification of communication protocols within an object-oriented language for the description of the system (SDL language).

Introduction, object model, classes and objects, classification. Class diagrams, objects, state transitions. Processes and management. Application of object-oriented design. Specification of communication protocols using formal or graphical notation. Description of syntax and semantics through standard SDL(Specification and Description Language).Communication systems description in SDL. SDL structure, data types, abstract data types, communication paths. Examples of communication protocols in SDL.

Lectures and lab exercises.