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ENTS -- Telecommunications
ENTS 608 Telecommunications Seminar (1) Includes a sequence
of seminars on a unified theme on technical, public policy, management
or regulatory inputs of telecommunications.
ENTS 609 Telecommunications Project (3) Consists of a student
project in the area of telecommunication system applications, management,
or policy. Specific projects will be supervised individually by faculty
members associated with the M.S Program in Telecommunications.
ENTS 620 Principles of Telecommunications (3) Time and frequency
domain representation of signals; behavior of linear time-invariant systems;
probability and random processes; and detection and estimation issues.
Examples from the design and analysis of communication systems will be
used to illustrate the concepts.
ENTS 621 Design and Analysis of Telecommunication Systems (3)
Prerequisite: ENTS 620 or permission of instructor. Concentrates
on the design and analysis of various components in a 'typical' modern
telecommunications system. Topics to be investigated are commercial radio
broadcasting, A/D and D/A conversion, data compression, telephone line
modem design, and coding for enhanced performance.
ENTS 625 Management and Organizational Behavior in the Telecommunications
Industry (3) Roles of the general manager in: determining target markets
and designing strategies for them; formulating and implementing corporate
and business level strategies; and staffing, developing, and managing human
resources and coordinating them with the organization's financial and physical
resources. Also emphasizes the building of interpersonal skills with respect
to the selection of members for work teams and team formation, leadership
of teams toward the achievement of strategic goals and total quality, the
development and motivation of team members, and the evaluation of team
and individual performance.
ENTS 630 The Economics of International Telecommunications (3)
Economic analysis in telecommunications: the demand for services, the nature
of production, competition, optimal pricing, and alternative regulatory
options.
ENTS 631 Competitive Strategies and Public Policies in Telecommunications
(3) Prerequisite: ENTS 630. Describes and applies the tools
of industry economics, competitive strategy and policy analysis to telecommunications
policy. Basic principles of antitrust and regulatory policy will be presented
and applied to current telecommunications issues. Uses a global perspective
to explore the manner in which other countries regulate their telecommunications
industries and draws comparisons to the United States.
ENTS 632 Telecommunications Marketing Management (3) Strategic
marketing, sales and customer service challenges confronting organizations
in the computer, communications and media industries. Volatile technology,
regulatory and competitive environments as a backdrop to strategic planning
and management in the marketing domain.
ENTS 640 Telecommunication Networks (3) An overview of design
issues and the important industry standards for digital communications
networks.
ENTS 641 Telecommunications Networks II (3) Prerequisite: ENTS 640.
Techniques for the specification, design, analysis, verification and testing
of communication protocols are developed. Various protocol services will
be discussed and example protocols given.
ENTS 650 Network Security (3) Various approaches to design, specification,
and verification of security protocols used in large systems and networks.
Topics of network security, security threats and countermeasures, communication
security and basic encryption techniques, data confidentiality and integrity,
analysis of cryptographic protocols, and access control in large systems
and networks.
ENTS 655 Digital Signal Processing (3) Prerequisite: linear
system concepts and transfer in methods at senior electrical engineering
level. Knowledge of linear system concepts and transform methods taught
in a typical electrical engineering undergraduate course on signals and
systems. Ideal periodic sampling and the sampling theorem; forward and
inverse Z-transforms; system analysis by the Z-transform; designing FIR
and IIR digital filters; quantization and finite word-length arithmetic;
the DFT and FFT; decimation and interpolation; power spectral density estimation.
ENTS 656 Introduction to Cellular Communication Networks (3)
Prerequisite: ENTS 621 or equivalent. Concepts and techniques involved
in wireless digital communications with emphasis on cellular and PCS systems.
Properties of Mobile radio channels; intersymbol interference, multipath,
and fading effects; interleaving and diversity; multiple access schemes
(TDMA, FDMA, CDMA, SDMA); interuser interference, traffic issues, and cell
capacity; power control strategies; frequency reuse and channel assignment;
handoff, paging, and location update; cell layout; introduction to cellular
and PCS standards.
ENTS 660 Network Management (3) Network management encompasses
a broad range of topics related to the operation and control of telecommunications
networks. Network management problems arise in a wide range of settings,
starting with small local area networks (LANS) confined to a single building,
to larger private networks operated by geographically dispersed enterprises
to even larger public networks that sell services to a range of users.
The course blends technical issues related to performance measurement and
analysis, fault detection and isolation, etc. with qualitative topics such
as the application of total quality management to the customer service
function. Standards, most particularly SNMP and CMIP, will be covered.
ENTS 689 Special Topics (3) Repeatable to any number of credits
if content differs. Selected topics of current importance in telecommunications.
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