5CS3 TELECOMMUNICATION FUNDAMENTALS (Common to Computer Science and Engineering& Info. Tech)
  Units    Contents of the subjects
I
Data Transmission: Terminology, Frequency, spectrum, bandwidth, analog and digital transmission, Transmission impairments, channel capacity including sampling theorem and Fourier series. Transmission Media: Transmission of signals through Twisted pair, Coaxial cable, optical fibre (SM, MM, Graded Index). Wireless Transmission: Antenna and antenna gain, introduction to terrestrial and satellite microwave, Propagation of wireless signals, free space loss for LOS communication. Review of Line Encoding Schemes. Concept of bit period, effect of clock skew, Synchronous and
Asynchronous communication Network Reference Models (OSI/ISO and TCP/IP)
II
Data Link Layer: Functions performed by data link layer, Data link Layer design issues Error Control Coding: Error Detection, Two Dimensional Parity Checks, Internet Checksum. Polynomial Codes, Standardized polynomial codes, error detecting capability of a polynomial codes. Linear codes, performance of linear codes, error detection & correction using linear codes. Flow Control: Flow control in loss less and lossy channels using stop-and-wait, sliding window protocols. Performance of protocols used for flow control.
III
Data Link Control: HDLC & PPP including frame structures, MAC sublayer: Pure and slotted Aloha, CSMA, CSMA/CD, collision free multiple access. Throughput analysis of pure and slotted Aloha, delay & throughput analysis of CSMA and CSMA/CD
IV
Multiplexing: Frequency division, time division (Synchronous and statistical) multiplexing. ADSL, DS1 and DS3 carriers. Multiple Accesses: Performance of FDMA-FM-FDMA, Single channel per carrier. TDMA frame structure, TDMA Burst Structure, TDMA Frame efficiency, TDMA
Superframe structure, Frame acquisition and synchronization, Slip rate and in digital terrestrial networks. Switching: Qualitative description of Space division, time division and space-time-space division switching.
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Spread Spectrum Techniques: Direct sequence(DSSS) & frequency hopping(FHSS); Performance consideration in DSSS & FHSS; Code division Multiple access (CDMA): frequency & channel specifications, forward & reverse CDMA channel, pseudo noise(PN) sequences, m-sequence, gold
sequence, orthogonal code, gold sequences, Walsh codes synchronization, power control, handoff, capacity of CDMA system, IMT-2000, WCDM

 

Text/References:
1. Stallings, Data and computer communication, 8th ed. Pearson
2. Tri.T.Ha, Digital Satellite Communications, 2/e, Tata McGraw Hill
3. Alberto Leon-Garcia, Indra Widjaja, COMMUNICATION NETWORKS, 2nd ed., TMH
4. Wireless Communications, 2/e, Rappaport, PHI
5. Analysis of Computer and Communication Networks, ISBN: 0387744363, Fayez Gebali, 2008, Springer-verlag, 1st Ed.