ICE 321
Communication Engineering Principles II
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Course Description
At the end of this course, the students should be able to:
1. explain fixed line telephony systems, including access, multiplexing and signalling;
2. elucidate mobile telephony systems, mobility management and network dimensioning;
3. discuss wide area packet data networks, including Internet Protocol and ATM;
4. demonstrate satellite voice communications and 3G mobile systems;
5. expatiate contemporary and emerging research areas in ICE and wide area data
technologies; and
6. illustrate the interactions of commercial interests and technology standards.
Course Outline
Plain old telephone system. Cellular systems: including GSM and IS-95 CDMA. Principles of IP
- datagram networks and routing. Principles of ATM;.QoS on IP; Voice over IP; GPRS and
ADSL - hybrid voice/data network principles. Third generation mobile systems: WCDMA
concepts, multi-user detection, antenna array techniques, MIMO, high speed packet access,
long term evolution, radio resource management, packet scheduling, core network evolution.
Multimedia: image and video representation and transmission. Competing technologies: WiFi,
WiMAX, FttX. Emerging techniques: may include MANET, cognitive radio.