Introduction to Communication Engineering, A Brief History of Internet, Standards
Organizations & Internet Standards, Protocols & its key elements, Network Topology
& Scaling
Data and Signals- Analog and Digital Data and Signals, Data and Signals- Comparison
of analog and digital signals Periodic and non-periodic signals, Signal properties:
Frequency, Amplitude, Wavelength, Phase, Data and Signals- Composite Signals,
Decomposition of a composite periodic signal in the time and frequency domains,
Bandwidth, Bit Rate, Bit Length, Digital Signal as a Composite Analog Signal, Signal
impairments and causes
Digital Transmission- Synchronous and asynchronous communications, Signal
Element Versus Data Element, Mapping Data symbols onto Signal levels, Digital
Transmission - Line coding and schemes, Block coding, Scrambling, Transmission
Media – Twisted pair, Coaxial, Fiber optics communications: transmitter, receiver,
network components; radio, microwave, infrared and laser communications; circuitswitched and packet-switched networks
Analog Transmission- Aspects of Digital-to-Analog Conversion, Amplitude Shift
Keying, Frequency Shift Keying, Phase Shift Keying, Analog Transmission- Coherent
and Non Coherent FSK, Constellation Diagrams, Quadrature amplitude modulation
Analog Transmission- Amplitude Modulation, Frequency Modulation, Phase
Modulation, Analog Transmission- Mathematics related to analog transmission
Multiplexing and Spreading - Frequency-Division Multiplexing, WavelengthDivision Multiplexing, Multiplexing and Spreading - Synchronous Time-Division
Multiplexing
Multiplexing and Spreading – Interleaving, Data Rate Management, Data rate
matching, Multiplexing and Spreading - Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum
(FHSS), Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS), Multiplexing and Spreading -
Mathematics related to multiplexing and spreading