Course Description
Introduction to telecommunication systems. Telecommunication fundamentals and transmission of media characteristics. Design analog and digital data transmission schemes. Telephony systems: ISDN and PSTN, essentials of traffic engineering. Overview of Wireless LAN technology. Comparison of ZigBee with other standards and applications. Introduction to Satellite communication: link power budget calculation, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) Systems. Introduction to fiber-optic based communication.