Graduate Courses

Engineering

Communication Circuits (ECE 5224) -- Advanced methods of analysis and design of communication circuits with emphasis on nonlinear effects and filtering. Nonlinear device models and their use in the design of oscillators and mixers at HF through UHF frequencies. The design of power amplifiers.

Computer and Network Architectures (ECE 5516) -- Local area networks, wide area networks, and internets. Protocols and the ISO Open Systems Interconnect reference model. Design, analysis, and performance evaluation. Emphasis on data link, network, and transport protocols.

Coding Theory (ECE 5544) -- Use of codes to improve the reliability of transmission over noisy channels. Algebraic structure of codes. Includes error detecting and correcting codes. Bose-Chaudhuri Hocquenheim codes, convolutional codes and codes for checking arithmetic operations.

Stochastic Signals and Systems I and II (ECE 5605-5606) -- Engineering applications of probability theory, random variables and random processes. Topics include random signals and system analysis, synthesis of optimal filters, introduction to signal detection theory, and response of linear and nonlinear systems to random inputs.

Digital Signal Processing I (ECE 5624) -- Deterministic digital processing. Discrete-time signals, linear systems, z-transforms, discrete Fourier transform, synthesis of digital filters, quantization and finite word- length effects, filter structures and sensitivity, Hilbert transforms, homomorphic and two-dimensional processing, tessellation analysis.

Information Theory (ECE 5634) -- Transmission of information over noisy channels. Measures of information and transmission channel capacity. Use of codes to improve the reliability of such transmission. Mathematical theory of information. Transmission at rates above channel capacity. Includes linear codes, error detecting and correcting codes, Hamming codes.

Communication System Design I and II (ECE 5655-5656) -- 5655: Physical concepts and practical topics providing tools to calculate carrier-to-noise ratio in communications systems are discussed, including noise processes, polarization topics, atmospheric propagation, receiver components, antennas, system calculation, and case studies. 5656: Advanced topics in digital satellite communications are discussed. These include multiple access, digital modulation, error correction coding, carrier phase, and symbol timing recovery.

Antenna Theory and Design I and II (ECE 6115-6116) -- 6115: Aperture theory. Aperture antennas: horns, reflectors, feeds. Array antennas. Antenna synthesis: shaped beam and low sidelobe design. 6116: Measurements. Phased arrays. Waveguide slot arrays. Microstrip antennas. Numerical techniques. Moment method analysis of wire antennas. Geometrical theory of diffraction.

Topics in Communications (ECE 6604) -- Advanced topics of current interest in communications, which are taken from publications and industrial information.

Digital Signal Processing II (ECE 6624) -- An advanced introduction to random digital signal processing. Random time series auto- and cross- correlation sequences and their generation, filtering of random sequences, Wiener filters, matched filters, modeling assumption errors, one step predictors, rational modeling of random sequences, parametric and non- parametric spectral estimation.

Cellular Radio and Personal Communications (ECE 6644) -- This course covers fundamental theory and design of high capacity wireless communications systems. Topics include trunking, propagation, frequency reuse, modulation, coding, and equalization. Emerging cellular and PCN systems are analyzed.

Economics

Commercializing Network Technologies (ECON 5984) -- Student teams in this course will develop a commercialization plan for an emerging technology. The teams will consist of MBAs and research engineers and others in communications and advanced networking. The course is structured around a team project to create a commercialization plan for the technologies and innovations that the IREAN Fellows are developing.