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COURSE TITLE: ELC-215 Communication Systems II
COURSE CREDIT: 4 Credits
PREREQUISITE: ELC-214 Communication Systems I
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Communication Systems II follows the first course in this sequence,
continuing work in digital and data communication, and then covers
transmission lines, radio-wave propagation, antennas, microwave
systems, satellite communications, fiber-optic systems, and cellular
communication systems.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: 1. Complete the work started in Communication Systems I concerning
analog and digital communication techniques.
2. After having studied the two ends, the transmitter and receiver, move
into a study of the middle, the channel, which includes free-space
transmission, optical fiber, and metallic cable.
TEXT: 1. Comprehensive Electronic Communication, Roy Blake, West
Publishing Company, 1997.
2. Laboratory manual for above text.
SYLLABUS: 1. Modems: Modulation techniques, data compression with modems,
file transfers, communications software, fax modems.
2. Local-Area Networks: Topologies, high-speed LANs, broad band
networks, and software.
3. Wide-Area Data Networks: Structures and protocols, the internet.
4. Transmission Lines: Step and pulse response of lines, wave
propagation on lines, losses and impedance matching, transmission-line
measurements.
5. Radio-Wave Propagation: Electromagnetic waves, propagation,
reflection, refraction, diffraction.
6. Antennas: Characteristics, types, matching, arrays.
7. Microwave Devices: Waveguides, components, tubes, antennas,
radar.
8. Terrestrial Microwave Systems: Siting, system gain, equipment.
9. Satellite Communication: Orbital calculations, applications.
10. Fiber Optics: Fiber-optic cables, splices, connectors, optical
couplers, switches, emitters, detectors.
11. Fiber-Optic Systems: Types and applications
12. Cellular and Wireless Personal Communication Systems.
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