Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences

School : Electronics and Communications Engineering

Course Description :

Physics of light. Light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Laser diodes; coherent light, light emission, amplification of light, semiconductor lasers, multimode laser diodes, Fabry-Perot laser diode, distributed laser gain, resonant frequencies, spectral linewidth, number of modes, single-mode laser diodes, distributed-feedback (DBR) laser diode, distributed-Bragg-reflector (DBR) laser diode, vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELS). Multimode optical fibers; step-index fiber, modes and distortion in optical fibers. Modal distortion in optical fibers; modes in step-index fibers, graded-index fiber, modal-distortion rise-time. Dispersion in optical fibers; material dispersion, waveguide dispersion, total pulse spreading. Single-mode fibers.

Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences

School : Electronics and Communications Engineering

Course Description :

Satellite Orbits, Space Stations and Ground Terminals, Frequency Allocation, Link Calculation and Signal Propagation, Digital Modulation, Error Correction Codes, Multiple Access, Receiver Synchronization, Baseband Processing and the basics of Satellite Networking. Modern communication systems using satellite.

Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences

School : Electronics and Communications Engineering

Course Description :

Evolution of communication systems, Cellular system structure, In depth study of the different practical mobile communication systems including the PHY layer (modulation techniques, transmitter/receiver structure), MAC (Automatic repeat Request and Hybrid Automatic repeat request), Networking and mobility management procedures, Modern and innovative ideas in mobile communication and next generation communication systems.

Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences

School : Electronics and Communications Engineering

Course Description :

Basic concepts, network topologies, and networks models. Local area networks (LANs) and IEEE 802 standards, shared and bridged Ethernets, switched Ethernets, physical layer, media access control (MAC) sublayer, carrier sense multiple access with collision detection (CSMA/CD) protocol. Fast and Gigabit Ethernets. Internetworking devices and routing protocols, gateways and routers, routing information protocol (RIP), open shortest path first (OSPF) protocol, Dijkstra algorithm, border gateway protocol (BGP). Internet addressing and subnetting, classful and classless addressing, subnet design and assignments, variable length subnet masks (VLSMs), network address translation (NAT) protocol. Network layer protocols and IP protocols. Wireless LANs and IEEE 802.11 protocol, MAC sublayer and CSMA/CA protocol, hidden and exposed station problems, frame format and addressing mechanism. Wide area networks (WANs), virtual circuit switching and packet switching, frame relays, asynchronous transfer mode (ATM).

Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences

School : Electronics and Communications Engineering

Course Description :

Why optical communications. Modulation of light-emitting and laser diodes; LED analog modulation, LED digital modulation. Difficulties in laser diodes’ transmitters, laser diode analog modulation, laser diode digital modulation. Advanced modulation techniques; optical amplitude- and phase-shift keying. Mach-Zehnder Modulators, quadrature modulators. Coherent detection; heterodyne and homodyne receivers. Receiver noise and direct detection; shot and thermal noise. Power launching and coupling; source-to-fiber power launching, fiber-to-fiber joints, power loss at fiber joints. Optical networks; directional and star couplers, network topologies, wavelength division multiplexers.