Technical survey of the ways and means that voice, data, and video traffic are moved long distance. Topics covered include Electronic Components and System such as, Transmitters, Receivers, Waveguides, Antennae, Data Network Systems, the Telephone System (POTs, Network Synchronization and Switching, ISDN, SDH, Cellular Telephone); and Video systems (PAL, Switching and Timing, Compressed Video standards such as MPEG and Px64, HDTV).

System level analysis and design for digital and analog and communications systems: analog-to-digital conversion, PC and delta modulations; Digital and analog modulation types, demodulation of AM, DSB, FM, Noise in DSB; N Dimensional Signal Space, ASK, PSK, FSK M-ary communication, Spread Spectrum techniques; Detection techniques, matched filters, receiver design, link budgets, signal to noise ratios and bit error rates in AWGN and fading channels

Aspects of radiowave propagation for fixed and mobile communication systems, and cellular system design. Large-scale and small-scale propagation models, multipath fading, link-budget, interference and frequency reuse, multiple access schemes and system capacity. Trunking and grade of service, wireless network planning and operation. Architecture and operation of 2G cellular mobile systems, 2.5 G and 3G technologies. Special techniques/Diversity, Equalization, Interleaving, and Smart Antenna.

Telecommunications: Point-to-Point Systems and Networks, Information Carrying Capacity, The Need for Fiber-Optic Communications Systems, A Fiber-Optic Communications System: The Basic Blocks, Worldwide Submarine Networks, Electromagnetic Spectrum, Radiation & Absorption, Optical Fibers-Basics: Step-Index Fiber, Numerical Aperture, Attenuation, Calculation of Total Attenuation, Intermodal and Chromatic Dispersion, Graded-Index Fiber, The Structure of a Singlemode Fiber, Bit Rate and Bandwidth, Cutoff Wavelength, V-Number, Attenuation Constant, Dispersion in Multimode Fibers, Electrical & Optical Bandwidth, Spectral Width, Singlemode Fibers, Gaussian Beam, Bit Rate of a Singlemode Fiber, Fabrication, Cabling, and Installation, Fiber Cable Connectorization and Testing, Power Budget, Light Sources, Transmitters and Receivers; Transmitter Modules, Receiver Units, Components of Fiber-Optic Networks; Passive Components, Switches, Transceivers, TDM, WDM and DWDM systems, Add/Drop Problem, Multiplexing Hierarchy in Telecommunications, SONET & SDH Systems, FDDI, and Functional Modules of Fiber-Optic Networks-Telephone and Computer Networks, Networks, Protocols, and Services, OSI, ATM Networks and Layers; Broadband Communication System, Network Management and Future of Fiber-Optic Networks

The course covers basic semiconductor properties, elemental quantum mechanics, energy band theory, equilibrium carrier statistics, and carrier transport, physical and electrical characteristics of pn junctions, bipolar junction transistors and field-effect transistors. Emphasis will be on Si, Ge GaAs,InGaAsP materials, device fabrication and characterization of electrical and optical properties

Design of very large-scale digital systems on a single chip. Review of MOS technology. Design rules imposed by fabrication techniques. Systematic structures for control and data flow; system timing; highly concurrent systems. Experimental opportunities available.

Telecommunications Systems. Involves introduction to the basic system analysis tools and the procedures for conducting a system analysis. Topics include system requirements, the initial analysis, the general feasibility study, structured analysis, detailed analysis, logical design, and the general system proposal. Current system documentation through use of classical and structured tools and techniques for describing flows, data flows, data structures, file designs, input and output designs, and program specifications. The student will gain practical experience through a project.

Computer Networks is a graduate course that introduces fundamental concepts in the design and implementation of computer communication networks and their protocols. Topics include: layered network architectures, applications, transport and routing, IP version 6, mobile IP, multicasting, session initiation protocol, quality of service, network security, network management, and TCP/IP in wireless networks. Specific emphasis will be placed on the protocols used in the Internet.

Topics covered include Major technical issues in designing and integrating telecommunication networks; Basic concepts in telecom network design; Network architecture; Network Reliability; Network design constraints; Network design tool; Balance among several key attributes: performance, reliability, cost, and scalability. Being an application oriented course, students will gain practical experience through two projects using commercial software (e.g. OPNET IT GURU). The projects simulate the cases network engineers/ managers will face in their daily job in today’s corporate world.

Introduction to discrete linear systems; frequency-domain design of digital filters; quantization effects in digital filters; digital filter hardware discrete Fourier transforms; high-speed convolution and correlation with application to digital filtering; introduction to Walsh-Fourier theory

Amplitude, frequency, and pulse-modulated communication systems, including the effects of noise. Design of radio transmitter and receiver circuits using Y- and S- parameter methods. Circuits include oscillators, radio frequency amplifiers and matching networks, modulators, mixers, and detectors.

Transmission and reception system of radio, television, and other broadcast systems, network design and planning, urban and rural coverage, spectrum management, economic analysis

Design methods to fix gain and bandwidth specifications in amplifiers, feedback techniques, properties and design application of operational amplifiers; Small and large signal HF amplifier design, HF oscillators; Noise considerations in RF amplifiers, RF amplifiers, wideband amplifiers; Phased locked loop and its applications in modulation and demodulation, switched capacitor filters, sample and hold circuits, coders and decoders with A/D and D/A converters Microstrip and stripline techniques; Transistor and amplifier measurement techniques; Computer aided design of amplifiers

Telecom services, local, long distance, mobile telephony, voice over IP, business models, operations and maintenance, cost and pricing for service packages, wireless vs wireline telephony, industry dynamics, market competition, regulatory issues, cost of compliance, ITU and telecom policy for local and global market, industry restructure, privatization trends in developing markets, spectrum management, licensing and fees, tariff, interconnection, overseas access, business models and business case analysis

All levels of government regulate telecommunications, from the city that controls the placement of telephone wires up to the nation state which issues licenses to broadcast. Because of the nature of telecommunications and the importance of the information it carries, international politics are also heavily involved. The purpose of this course is to investigate the institutions that affect the use of telecommunications. Some time will be devoted to the various parts of the federal government that are involved in this endeavor, such as the Department of Commerce, the FCC, and the Department of State. The major thrust of the course will be toward the role of international institutions, including the ITU, UNESCO, and the various satellite organizations such as INTELSAT. Review of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the telecommunications commitments made by members. Emphasis on the European Union as the largest single telecommunications market, along with analyses of regional emerging markets. Review of challenges for the future for both regulatory agencies and telecommunications operators/providers

This course provides an in-depth understanding about the management of technology and innovation. Covered topics are: management of dynamic changes in R&D, integration of technology planning, product planning, business planning and the market demands, human, social and environmental concerns associated with technological change, case studies of global technology firms, business case development for deployment of new technologies critical decision analysis methods, new challenges and responses in technology management, technology transfer, and business and technology strategy

Resource planning for today’s global business organization. Emphasis on integrated data flows and computer software for enterprise resource planning. Integration of transactional analysis, fundamental accounting practice, financial planning, and supply chain analysis form the basis for study in this integrated approach to enterprise resource planning. Design and use of management information systems in businesses and other organizations. Model building, information resource management and decision support systems.

Information technologies that enable electronic commerce, including database and web technologies and infrastructure, web software, transaction security, business web models and applications

Security requirements; Encryption algorithm, hashes and message digest, public key algorithm, key management; Security architecture, security policy design and management; Core Internet Security standards, IPSec, PKI, SSL/TLS, Kerberos, TLS, AES; Web security, email security, database security, operating system security; Security technologies, products and solutions, Firewall and secure router design, installation, configuration and maintenance, VPN implementation using routers and firewall’s

This course examines the principles and technologies of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and physical vapor deposition (PVD) to prepare thin films for microelectronic applications. Topics include the deposition of semiconductors, insulators, and metals using low pressure (LPCVD) and metal-organic (MOCVD) chemical vapor deposition, evaporation, sputtering, molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), and ion-beam deposition; control of film properties; measurement of film properties; and selection of deposition methods for various applications

Optical processes in semiconductors, spontaneous emission, absorption, gain, stimulated emission. Principles of light emitting diodes, including transient effects, spectral and spatial radiation fields. Principles of semiconducting lasers; gain-current relationships, radiation fields, optical confinement and transient effects

Electronic packaging, which is an interdisciplinary technology encompassing the interconnection of devices and the establishment and control of their operational environment, has become a dominant factor in the evolution of modern systems. This course provides an introduction to the fundamental principles of electronic packaging at all levels: chip, board, subsystem issues and system. It addresses a broad range of key thermal, mechanical, material, electrical, and reliability issues; and develops the analytical tools that can be utilized to determine the basic effects of such problems in given packaging situations

An overview of the physics and technologies associated with producing nanometer-sized components. Looks at selected topics from solid state physics, chemistry, materials science, and IC fabrication technologies. Examines the potential structures and applications of various types of nanodevices; considers public concerns about the danger of nanotechnologies

The course will begin with a summary of integrated circuit fabrication technologies leading into an overview of the technologies available to shape electromechanical elements on a sub millimeter scale. Physics of MEMS devices will be covered at a level necessary to design and analyze new devices and systems. Several commercially available MEMS processes will be discussed in detail, and students will design final projects in these processes

Integrated optics is concerned with the design and fabrication of optical components and systems on a single substrate using processing techniques similar to those used in the manufacture of integrated electronic circuits. This course covers the basic concepts used in the design and fabrication of integrated optical devices and representative applications of such devices and systems. It also provides an introduction to how generation and control of optical radiation can be enahnced by utilizing quantum effects that arise at the scale of nanometer-sized components

General Concept and Definition of Multimedia, Video and Audio Compression Techniques Systems and Standards, QoS Architecture, Multimedia Support in Shared Media LAN and MAN, Transport Network Architectures and Technologies for Multimedia Services, Multimedia OA&M and Services; The internet, web designing concepts, HTTP protocol, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), server side includes (SSI), adding Advanced Content to Web pages, Add Java Applets, Add JavaScript, Java Servelet, Java Server Pages (JSP), Publish Web Pages, JavaScript, Active Server Pages (ASP), Server Side Scripting with PHP, Development of Dynamic Web Pages using ASP/PHP/JSP with Back End Database (MS SQL Server/Access)

Programmable devices, microcontrollers, application specific standard processors; importance of interrupts; reconfigurable logic; system-on-a-chip; finite state machines; dataflow architectures; and distributed embedded systems. Software for embedded systems, including: programming languages and software architectures; interrupt servicing; multi-tasking; task communications and scheduling; verification; hardware-software co-simulation; and real-time operating systems will be introduced.

3rd Generation cellular systems (IMT2000); Radio Interface Technologies of Third Generation Systems; WCDMA: Logical and Physical Channels, CDMA Spreading, Multirate Operation, Packet Data, Handover, Interoperability between GSM and WCDMA; CDMA2000: Logical and Physical Channels, CDMA Spreading, Multirate Operation, Packet Data; Time Division CDMA; 4th Generation Mobile Systems; Orthogonal Frequency Division Modulation (OFDM); OFDM-CDMA; Efficient modulation and coding schemes; Multiuser detection; Heterogeneous wireless networks

Review TCP/IP and OSI reference model and protocols, circuit- switched and packet-switched voice and data communications; Voice over IP technology requirements and architecture, H.323, Session Initiation Protocol, Megaco, Realtime Transport Protocol, RAS; Integrated network architecture for packet switching, Next Generation Network, Softswitch, call and media gateways; Service Level Agreement, quality of service (QoS), services options, legal and regulatory issues.

Introduction to Satellite Communications; Orbital Aspects of Earth Satellites (Introduction Kepler’s first, second & third law, orbits, geostationary orbits); Satellite Link Design; Propagation on Satellite-Earth Paths and Its Influence on Link Design; Modulation, Multiplexing and Multiple Access Techniques in Satellite Communications; Satellite Networking ; Spacecraft and Earth Station Technology; Types of Satellite Networks; Performance and Reliability of Satellite Communications

To provide an overview of basic teletraffic theory for network dimensioning and performance characterization of circuit switched public telecommunications network, broadband networks as well as the Internet: Traffic Flows in Networks. Dimensioning of Loss and Delay Systems. Loss and Delay in Switching Systems. Traffic Measurements. Multi-Dimensional Traffic. Traffic Models for ATM and Internet.