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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
السلام عليكم اخواني و خواتي
هذا بعض ما يدرسه مهندس الالكترونيات و الاتصالات في الجامعه
Introduction to Telecommunication Engineering
Relevance Communication Engineering curriculum to the practice of engineering in manufacturing and R&D environments. Various approaches and methods in problem solving. Introduction to communication and signal processing theory and techniques. Examples of applications.
Basics of Electrical Circuits
Physical electrical circuits. Modeling and measurements of currents and voltages in physical circuits. Definitions of charge, flux, power and energy and modeling their waveforms. Kirchoff's laws: Current and voltage equations. Circuit graphs. Graph matrices. Independent sets of current and voltage equations. Ideal 2-terminal and multi-terminal circuit elements: Linear and non-linear resistors, inductors and capacitors. Modeling of physical elements. Small-signal analysis. Solution of resistive circuits: Node voltage and mesh current methods. Circuit theorems: Tellegen's theorem. Superposition theorem. Reciprocity theorem. Thevenin and Norton theorems. Maximum power transfer theorem. Solution of dynamic circuits: Responses of first and second order dynamic circuits.
Introduction to Electromagnetic Fields
Vectors and electromagnetics, electrostatics, magnetostatic fields concepts, EM fields in different materials. Elementary electromagnetic field theory as summarized in Maxwell.s equations for time varying fields in integral and differential form, energy storage and quasistatic fields, EM field and materials, vector calculus and potential functions, time domain analysis of waves, PC assisted instruction of field calculations.
Electronic Devices
Components and basic circuits: Operational amplifiers, concepts and application examples. Diodes: Terminal characteristics, analysis of diode circuits, semiconductor principles and structure of junction diode. DC biasing, BJT as an amplifier. MOSFET: Structure and operating modes.
Analog Signal Processing
Introduction to analog signal processing, with an emphesis and understanding concepts from circuit and system analysis; lineer systems, review of elementary circuit anaysis, differantial equation models of linear circuits and systems, Laplace transform, convolution, stability, phasors, frequency response, Fourier series, Fourier transform, active filters.
Data Structures and Software Principles
Elementary data structures and data types; lists, stacks, queues, trees, searching and sorting techniques. Memory management. Graph algorithms. String algorithms. Fundamental principles of software engineering, programming project, program design concepts.
Digital Signal Processing
Introduction to discrete-time systems, and digital signal processing, discrete time linear systems, difference equations, z-transform, discrete convolution, stability, discrete-time Fourier transform, analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion, interpolation, digital filter design, discrete Fourier transform, fast Fourier transform, spectral analysis, applications of digital signal processing.
Introduction to Digital Systems
Representation of information, switching algebra, combinational network analysis and design, sequential network analysis and design, binary arithmetic and arithmetic-logic unit, computer organization and machine level programming, input output, control and design.
Guided Waves and Fields
General plane wave solution of Maxwell.s equations; reflection and transmission of plane waves; Transmission line fields and parameters, impedance matching, guided wave structures: classical, microstrip and fiberoptic lines, electromagnetic radiation and basics of antennas.
Electronic Circuits
Analysis and design of analog and digital electronic circuits using MOS field-effect transistors and bipolar junction transistors, diodes, transistors, logic circuits, amplifier circuits, frequency response, operational amplifiers, power amplifiers.
Analog Communication
Introduction to communication systems, modulation techniques, limitations in communication. Spectral analysis, energy and power spectral density. Transmission of signals over linear systems. The amplitude modulation (AM) techniques: Carrier amplitude modulation, suppressed carrier double sideband modulation, single sideband modulation, vestigial sideband modulation. Amplitude modulators, demodulators. Exponential modulation techniques: Frequency and phase (FM, PM) modulation. Frequency modulators, demodulators. Frequency division multiplexing (FDM). AM radio broadcasting, FM radio broadcasting, superheterodyne receivers. Stereo FM. Television broadcasting.
Digital Systems Laboratory
Introduction to the experimental analysis and synthesis of digital networks including the use of a microcomputer as a controller, storage elements, circuit characteristics, combinational networks (adders, multipliers etc.) simple sequential networks.
Digital Communication
Sampling theorem, Nyquist criterion, ideal sampling, natural sampling, flat-top sampling. Pulse modulation techniques: Pulse amplitude modulation (PAM), pulse duration (PDM) and pulse position (PPM) modulation, pulse code modulation (PCM), quantization, compressing- expanding, analog-digital converters, delta modulation (DM), differential pulse code modulation (DPCM). Baseband data transmission: intersymbol interference, design of transmit and receive filters, Nyquist channel, bandwidth efficiency, multilevel baseband transmission, error performance analysis. Binary digital modulation techniques: Binary amplitude shift keying (ASK), binary frequency and phase shift keying (FSK, PSK).
Digital Signal Processing Laboratory
Discrete-time signals in the time domain. Discrete time signals in the frequency domain. LTI discrete-time systems in the frequency domain. Digital processing of continuous-time signals. Digital filter structures. Digital filter design. Digital filter implementation. Analysis of finite word-length effects. Multirate digital signal processing.
Control Systems
Introduction of feedback concept, mathematical models of controls systems types of controllers, state space and time domain analysis. Analysis of multi-input, multi-output systems: Transfer models, state-space and discrete controllers, linearization methods.
Introduction to Electronics Laboratory
DC voltage supplies. DC characteristics of BJTs and MOSFETs. Amplifiers. Linear applications of operational amplifiers. Logic gates and flip-flops. Non-linear applications of operational amplifiers.
Basic Communication Laboratory
Amplitude Modulation/Demodulation, Frequency Modulation/Demodulation, Transmission Lines, Sampling and Pulse Modulation, Pulse Code Modulation, Delta Modulation, Bit Error Probability in Baseband Communication.
Microwave Engineering
Microwave network analysis using scattering parameters; active and passive subsystems, devices for Transmission media, microwave integrated circuits, receiver, transmitter, modulator, mixer and phase shifter fundamentals, examples of computer simulation.
Introduction to Mobile Communications
Mobile cellular radio principles; fundamental features, propagation issues, spectral efficiency. Analog cellular mobile radio systems; cellular layout, fundamental operational concepts, different international analog cellular systems. Digital cellular radio systems; analog cellular vs. digital cellular. The pan-European System: GSM; system description, air interface and network features, radio equipment. Comparison of various digital cellular systems. A view of the future.
Communication Theory
Random processes, modeling of noise: Gaussian noise, white noise, narrowband noise. Noise analysis in analog modulation: The effect of noise to the signal-to-noise ratio after demodulation in systems with amplitude modulation, threshold effect. Comparisons of signal- to-noise ratio values after demodulation of systems with carrier amplitude, double side-band, single sideband and vestigial sideband modulation. Noise analysis in exponential modulation, threshold effect in frequency modulation. Noise analysis in pulse code modulation, comparisons with amplitude and frequency modulation. Correlated digital transmission techniques, partial response coding techniques, their spectral properties.
Data Communications
Fundamentals of data communications. Data transmission media. Baseband data transmission. Data transmission with modulated carrier, modems. Data networks and architectures. Internet and Intranet. Interfaces and protocols. ITU-T V and X series recommendations. Data communication quality: security, reliability, availability and maintainability.
Antennas
Antenna parameters, polarization of electromagnetic waves, basic antenna types, antenna arrays, broadband antenna design, antenna measurements.
Microwave Systems and Antenna Laboratory
Measurements of frequency, wavelength, power and attenuation. Impedance measurement. Measurement of S-parameters. Measurements for various characteristics of microwave telecommunication circuits and sub-systems. Measurements of VHF, UHF and Microwave Antenna radiation parameters. Measurements of fiber optic characteristics.
Artificial Neural Networks
As a motivation biological neural systems. Definition of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) . Supervised and unsupervised learning. Adaptive linear element. Mean square learning rule. Design of linear associative memory. Multiple layered perceptron design. Back propagation algorithm. Radial based ANN. Dynamic ANN. Hopfield net, cellular ANN. Self organized map of Kohonen. Pattern, image, speech processing and control with hardware and software realization of ANN.
Object Oriented Programming
Object oriented approach. Objects and classes. Declaring the class. Data/Function members. Class constructors and destructors. Derived classes. Virtual classes. Inheritance. Applications in C++ programming language for communications.
Switching and Teletraffic Theory
Switching in telecommunications. Circuit, message and packet switching. Fundamentals of circuit switching. Telephone exchanges switching networks and control techniques, SPC. Switching software. Signaling systems. Hierarchical network structure. Intelligent networks. Terminals and access to the network. Mobile systems and GSM. Space and time division switching. Digitalization in telecommunication network. IDN and ISDN. Teletraffic engineering. Quevening systems. Lost and delayed calls. Switching network planning.
Microprocessor Systems
Basic microprocessor architecture and operation principles, memory and addressing, memory design, data, address and control busses, interfaces, parallel and serial ports, timers, interrupt controllers, memory management units, programming in assembly language, microprocessor applications.
Sound and Speech
Physical acoustics, propagation of acoustical waves. Speech and hearing. Speech processing and applications. Electroacoustic transducers and applications. Ultra and infra sound acoustics. Sound recording noise measurements, noise emission and noise reduction. Environmental noise and quality. ISO noise standards.
Telecommunication System Management
Examines problems and issues in telecommunications management; the role of management in operation of broadcasting, cable, and telecommunications industries; forces shaping products and services in commercial and non-profit media, i.e., technology, markets, revenues, programming, and regulation; planning, accountability, and social responsibility.
Fiber Optic Communication Systems
The importance and application areas of optical laser communication systems. Historical survey. The communication channel: Optical film, optical fiber, propagation characteristics, attenuation and dispersion in fibers, fiber cables. Optical sources: Light emission from semiconductor devices, LED principles of Laser.s. LD, modulation techniques. Optical receivers: PIN and APD. Quantum limited receiver. Signal/noise ratio and BER. System aspects. Design principles, dispersion and attenuation limitations, line codes. Fiber optic networks. T and star couplers. Active repeaters. Coherent modulation techniques.
Remote Sensing
Properties of earth atmosphere, spectral characteristic of surface objects; space radiation collection systems; detectors; passive radiometer and spectrometers; active lidar; Synthetic aperture radar and tracking systems. Satellite sensing. Digital image processing algorithms, Image characteristics. Image processing instrumentation. Examples for remote sensing applications.
Radar Systems
Signal concepts, radar equation cross section, radar equation, continuous wave radar, moving target radar, tracking radar, radar antennas, synthetic aperture radar and some radar applications.
Wireless Communication Networks
Overview of cellular systems. Channel characterization. Cell layout and cell splitting. Blocking and delay models, Erlang capacity. Network architecture.
Introduction to Multimedia
Media and data streams. Audio. Images and graphics. Video and Animation. Data compression. Optical Storage media. Computer technology. Multimedia operating systems. Networking systems. Multimedia communication systems. Database systems. Documents. User interfaces. Synchronization. Multimedia applications.
Digital Switching Systems
Digital circuit switching systems, hardware and software organizations. OSI reference model and protocols. Queuing systems. Packet switching systems, X.25 protocol. ISDN and frame relay. SMDS and DQDB-MAN. Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). xDSL access and SDH transport technologies. Local Area Networks (LAN.s). Interconnection of LAN.s. FDDI backbones.
Image Processing Fundamentals
What is image processing? Image processing applications and basic problems. Cameras. Perception. Human visual system and computer vision systems. Review of two-dimensional systems. Histogram-based operations. Convolution-based operations. Smoothing operations. Derivative-based operations. Morphology-based operations. Contour representations. Basic enhancement and restoration techniques. Segmentation. Fundamentals of image coding and compression.
Microwave and RF Communication
Modeling of the multipath channel. Digital transmission over non frequency selective channels. Diversity techniques. Coded waves on fading channels. Spread spectrum. Frequency hopping spread spectrum. Some applications. Digital radio systems. Link analysis. Antennas and medium parameters. System gain. Interference and noise. Transmitters, receivers and repeaters. Design applications.
Introduction to Optimization
Basic theory and methods for the solution to finite-dimensional optimization problems; iterative and computational algorithms for unconstrained and constrained optimization; linear, nonlinear and large-scale programming with applications.
Digital Speech Processing
Applications of digital signal processing to speech signals. Acoustic theories of speech production leading to time and frequency domain models. Speech analysis synthesis technique. Applications to music analysis and synthesis.
Communication Systems
Time division multiplexing techniques, PCM hierarchies, frame structures, frame justification methods. Line coding techniques. Advanced digital modulation techniques and systems: M- ary amplitude shift keying (M-ASK), M-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (M-QAM), M- ary phase and frequency shift keying (M-PSK, M-FSK), minimum shift keying (MSK), Gaussian MSK (GMSK), continuous phase modulation (CPM), continuous phase frequency shift keying (CPFSK), theirs spectral analysis and performances. Synchronization techniques in digital communication systems, extraction of timing and carrier content. Fundamentals of mobile communication systems, fading channels: Rayleigh and Rician channel models, multipath channels, multiple-access techniques (TDMA, FDMA, CDMA).
Digital Communication Systems Laboratory
Line Coding and Partial Response Signaling, Digital Modulation/Demodulation, Modem, Digital Switching and Central Office, Communication Protocols and Networks, Mobile Communication, Spread Spectrum Communication.
Satellite Communications
Fundamentals of satellite communication system structures. Satellite subsystems, detailed link analysis, antennas and link propagation properties, multiplexing, modulation and multiple access techniques. Earth stations. Design examples for fixed and mobile satellite communication systems.
السلام عليكم اخواني و خواتي
هذا بعض ما يدرسه مهندس الالكترونيات و الاتصالات في الجامعه
Introduction to Telecommunication Engineering
Relevance Communication Engineering curriculum to the practice of engineering in manufacturing and R&D environments. Various approaches and methods in problem solving. Introduction to communication and signal processing theory and techniques. Examples of applications.
Basics of Electrical Circuits
Physical electrical circuits. Modeling and measurements of currents and voltages in physical circuits. Definitions of charge, flux, power and energy and modeling their waveforms. Kirchoff's laws: Current and voltage equations. Circuit graphs. Graph matrices. Independent sets of current and voltage equations. Ideal 2-terminal and multi-terminal circuit elements: Linear and non-linear resistors, inductors and capacitors. Modeling of physical elements. Small-signal analysis. Solution of resistive circuits: Node voltage and mesh current methods. Circuit theorems: Tellegen's theorem. Superposition theorem. Reciprocity theorem. Thevenin and Norton theorems. Maximum power transfer theorem. Solution of dynamic circuits: Responses of first and second order dynamic circuits.
Introduction to Electromagnetic Fields
Vectors and electromagnetics, electrostatics, magnetostatic fields concepts, EM fields in different materials. Elementary electromagnetic field theory as summarized in Maxwell.s equations for time varying fields in integral and differential form, energy storage and quasistatic fields, EM field and materials, vector calculus and potential functions, time domain analysis of waves, PC assisted instruction of field calculations.
Electronic Devices
Components and basic circuits: Operational amplifiers, concepts and application examples. Diodes: Terminal characteristics, analysis of diode circuits, semiconductor principles and structure of junction diode. DC biasing, BJT as an amplifier. MOSFET: Structure and operating modes.
Analog Signal Processing
Introduction to analog signal processing, with an emphesis and understanding concepts from circuit and system analysis; lineer systems, review of elementary circuit anaysis, differantial equation models of linear circuits and systems, Laplace transform, convolution, stability, phasors, frequency response, Fourier series, Fourier transform, active filters.
Data Structures and Software Principles
Elementary data structures and data types; lists, stacks, queues, trees, searching and sorting techniques. Memory management. Graph algorithms. String algorithms. Fundamental principles of software engineering, programming project, program design concepts.
Digital Signal Processing
Introduction to discrete-time systems, and digital signal processing, discrete time linear systems, difference equations, z-transform, discrete convolution, stability, discrete-time Fourier transform, analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion, interpolation, digital filter design, discrete Fourier transform, fast Fourier transform, spectral analysis, applications of digital signal processing.
Introduction to Digital Systems
Representation of information, switching algebra, combinational network analysis and design, sequential network analysis and design, binary arithmetic and arithmetic-logic unit, computer organization and machine level programming, input output, control and design.
Guided Waves and Fields
General plane wave solution of Maxwell.s equations; reflection and transmission of plane waves; Transmission line fields and parameters, impedance matching, guided wave structures: classical, microstrip and fiberoptic lines, electromagnetic radiation and basics of antennas.
Electronic Circuits
Analysis and design of analog and digital electronic circuits using MOS field-effect transistors and bipolar junction transistors, diodes, transistors, logic circuits, amplifier circuits, frequency response, operational amplifiers, power amplifiers.
Analog Communication
Introduction to communication systems, modulation techniques, limitations in communication. Spectral analysis, energy and power spectral density. Transmission of signals over linear systems. The amplitude modulation (AM) techniques: Carrier amplitude modulation, suppressed carrier double sideband modulation, single sideband modulation, vestigial sideband modulation. Amplitude modulators, demodulators. Exponential modulation techniques: Frequency and phase (FM, PM) modulation. Frequency modulators, demodulators. Frequency division multiplexing (FDM). AM radio broadcasting, FM radio broadcasting, superheterodyne receivers. Stereo FM. Television broadcasting.
Digital Systems Laboratory
Introduction to the experimental analysis and synthesis of digital networks including the use of a microcomputer as a controller, storage elements, circuit characteristics, combinational networks (adders, multipliers etc.) simple sequential networks.
Digital Communication
Sampling theorem, Nyquist criterion, ideal sampling, natural sampling, flat-top sampling. Pulse modulation techniques: Pulse amplitude modulation (PAM), pulse duration (PDM) and pulse position (PPM) modulation, pulse code modulation (PCM), quantization, compressing- expanding, analog-digital converters, delta modulation (DM), differential pulse code modulation (DPCM). Baseband data transmission: intersymbol interference, design of transmit and receive filters, Nyquist channel, bandwidth efficiency, multilevel baseband transmission, error performance analysis. Binary digital modulation techniques: Binary amplitude shift keying (ASK), binary frequency and phase shift keying (FSK, PSK).
Digital Signal Processing Laboratory
Discrete-time signals in the time domain. Discrete time signals in the frequency domain. LTI discrete-time systems in the frequency domain. Digital processing of continuous-time signals. Digital filter structures. Digital filter design. Digital filter implementation. Analysis of finite word-length effects. Multirate digital signal processing.
Control Systems
Introduction of feedback concept, mathematical models of controls systems types of controllers, state space and time domain analysis. Analysis of multi-input, multi-output systems: Transfer models, state-space and discrete controllers, linearization methods.
Introduction to Electronics Laboratory
DC voltage supplies. DC characteristics of BJTs and MOSFETs. Amplifiers. Linear applications of operational amplifiers. Logic gates and flip-flops. Non-linear applications of operational amplifiers.
Basic Communication Laboratory
Amplitude Modulation/Demodulation, Frequency Modulation/Demodulation, Transmission Lines, Sampling and Pulse Modulation, Pulse Code Modulation, Delta Modulation, Bit Error Probability in Baseband Communication.
Microwave Engineering
Microwave network analysis using scattering parameters; active and passive subsystems, devices for Transmission media, microwave integrated circuits, receiver, transmitter, modulator, mixer and phase shifter fundamentals, examples of computer simulation.
Introduction to Mobile Communications
Mobile cellular radio principles; fundamental features, propagation issues, spectral efficiency. Analog cellular mobile radio systems; cellular layout, fundamental operational concepts, different international analog cellular systems. Digital cellular radio systems; analog cellular vs. digital cellular. The pan-European System: GSM; system description, air interface and network features, radio equipment. Comparison of various digital cellular systems. A view of the future.
Communication Theory
Random processes, modeling of noise: Gaussian noise, white noise, narrowband noise. Noise analysis in analog modulation: The effect of noise to the signal-to-noise ratio after demodulation in systems with amplitude modulation, threshold effect. Comparisons of signal- to-noise ratio values after demodulation of systems with carrier amplitude, double side-band, single sideband and vestigial sideband modulation. Noise analysis in exponential modulation, threshold effect in frequency modulation. Noise analysis in pulse code modulation, comparisons with amplitude and frequency modulation. Correlated digital transmission techniques, partial response coding techniques, their spectral properties.
Data Communications
Fundamentals of data communications. Data transmission media. Baseband data transmission. Data transmission with modulated carrier, modems. Data networks and architectures. Internet and Intranet. Interfaces and protocols. ITU-T V and X series recommendations. Data communication quality: security, reliability, availability and maintainability.
Antennas
Antenna parameters, polarization of electromagnetic waves, basic antenna types, antenna arrays, broadband antenna design, antenna measurements.
Microwave Systems and Antenna Laboratory
Measurements of frequency, wavelength, power and attenuation. Impedance measurement. Measurement of S-parameters. Measurements for various characteristics of microwave telecommunication circuits and sub-systems. Measurements of VHF, UHF and Microwave Antenna radiation parameters. Measurements of fiber optic characteristics.
Artificial Neural Networks
As a motivation biological neural systems. Definition of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) . Supervised and unsupervised learning. Adaptive linear element. Mean square learning rule. Design of linear associative memory. Multiple layered perceptron design. Back propagation algorithm. Radial based ANN. Dynamic ANN. Hopfield net, cellular ANN. Self organized map of Kohonen. Pattern, image, speech processing and control with hardware and software realization of ANN.
Object Oriented Programming
Object oriented approach. Objects and classes. Declaring the class. Data/Function members. Class constructors and destructors. Derived classes. Virtual classes. Inheritance. Applications in C++ programming language for communications.
Switching and Teletraffic Theory
Switching in telecommunications. Circuit, message and packet switching. Fundamentals of circuit switching. Telephone exchanges switching networks and control techniques, SPC. Switching software. Signaling systems. Hierarchical network structure. Intelligent networks. Terminals and access to the network. Mobile systems and GSM. Space and time division switching. Digitalization in telecommunication network. IDN and ISDN. Teletraffic engineering. Quevening systems. Lost and delayed calls. Switching network planning.
Microprocessor Systems
Basic microprocessor architecture and operation principles, memory and addressing, memory design, data, address and control busses, interfaces, parallel and serial ports, timers, interrupt controllers, memory management units, programming in assembly language, microprocessor applications.
Sound and Speech
Physical acoustics, propagation of acoustical waves. Speech and hearing. Speech processing and applications. Electroacoustic transducers and applications. Ultra and infra sound acoustics. Sound recording noise measurements, noise emission and noise reduction. Environmental noise and quality. ISO noise standards.
Telecommunication System Management
Examines problems and issues in telecommunications management; the role of management in operation of broadcasting, cable, and telecommunications industries; forces shaping products and services in commercial and non-profit media, i.e., technology, markets, revenues, programming, and regulation; planning, accountability, and social responsibility.
Fiber Optic Communication Systems
The importance and application areas of optical laser communication systems. Historical survey. The communication channel: Optical film, optical fiber, propagation characteristics, attenuation and dispersion in fibers, fiber cables. Optical sources: Light emission from semiconductor devices, LED principles of Laser.s. LD, modulation techniques. Optical receivers: PIN and APD. Quantum limited receiver. Signal/noise ratio and BER. System aspects. Design principles, dispersion and attenuation limitations, line codes. Fiber optic networks. T and star couplers. Active repeaters. Coherent modulation techniques.
Remote Sensing
Properties of earth atmosphere, spectral characteristic of surface objects; space radiation collection systems; detectors; passive radiometer and spectrometers; active lidar; Synthetic aperture radar and tracking systems. Satellite sensing. Digital image processing algorithms, Image characteristics. Image processing instrumentation. Examples for remote sensing applications.
Radar Systems
Signal concepts, radar equation cross section, radar equation, continuous wave radar, moving target radar, tracking radar, radar antennas, synthetic aperture radar and some radar applications.
Wireless Communication Networks
Overview of cellular systems. Channel characterization. Cell layout and cell splitting. Blocking and delay models, Erlang capacity. Network architecture.
Introduction to Multimedia
Media and data streams. Audio. Images and graphics. Video and Animation. Data compression. Optical Storage media. Computer technology. Multimedia operating systems. Networking systems. Multimedia communication systems. Database systems. Documents. User interfaces. Synchronization. Multimedia applications.
Digital Switching Systems
Digital circuit switching systems, hardware and software organizations. OSI reference model and protocols. Queuing systems. Packet switching systems, X.25 protocol. ISDN and frame relay. SMDS and DQDB-MAN. Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). xDSL access and SDH transport technologies. Local Area Networks (LAN.s). Interconnection of LAN.s. FDDI backbones.
Image Processing Fundamentals
What is image processing? Image processing applications and basic problems. Cameras. Perception. Human visual system and computer vision systems. Review of two-dimensional systems. Histogram-based operations. Convolution-based operations. Smoothing operations. Derivative-based operations. Morphology-based operations. Contour representations. Basic enhancement and restoration techniques. Segmentation. Fundamentals of image coding and compression.
Microwave and RF Communication
Modeling of the multipath channel. Digital transmission over non frequency selective channels. Diversity techniques. Coded waves on fading channels. Spread spectrum. Frequency hopping spread spectrum. Some applications. Digital radio systems. Link analysis. Antennas and medium parameters. System gain. Interference and noise. Transmitters, receivers and repeaters. Design applications.
Introduction to Optimization
Basic theory and methods for the solution to finite-dimensional optimization problems; iterative and computational algorithms for unconstrained and constrained optimization; linear, nonlinear and large-scale programming with applications.
Digital Speech Processing
Applications of digital signal processing to speech signals. Acoustic theories of speech production leading to time and frequency domain models. Speech analysis synthesis technique. Applications to music analysis and synthesis.
Communication Systems
Time division multiplexing techniques, PCM hierarchies, frame structures, frame justification methods. Line coding techniques. Advanced digital modulation techniques and systems: M- ary amplitude shift keying (M-ASK), M-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (M-QAM), M- ary phase and frequency shift keying (M-PSK, M-FSK), minimum shift keying (MSK), Gaussian MSK (GMSK), continuous phase modulation (CPM), continuous phase frequency shift keying (CPFSK), theirs spectral analysis and performances. Synchronization techniques in digital communication systems, extraction of timing and carrier content. Fundamentals of mobile communication systems, fading channels: Rayleigh and Rician channel models, multipath channels, multiple-access techniques (TDMA, FDMA, CDMA).
Digital Communication Systems Laboratory
Line Coding and Partial Response Signaling, Digital Modulation/Demodulation, Modem, Digital Switching and Central Office, Communication Protocols and Networks, Mobile Communication, Spread Spectrum Communication.
Satellite Communications
Fundamentals of satellite communication system structures. Satellite subsystems, detailed link analysis, antennas and link propagation properties, multiplexing, modulation and multiple access techniques. Earth stations. Design examples for fixed and mobile satellite communication systems.