TCOM 5183/ECE 5183 Quantum Information Theory |
This is an introductory course of quantum information theory. The goal is to introduce students to the concepts and tools of quantum information and to demonstrate how these tools can be used to analyze quantum information protocols. Topics covered include quantum state, quantum measurement, quantum channels, No-Cloning Theorem, Bell's inequalities, entanglement, quantum dense coding, quantum teleportation, distance measures, quantum entropy, quantum mutual information, information of quantum channels.Prerequisite: linear algebra. |
TCOM 5553/ECE 5553 Telecommunication Technologies |
This course focuses on the modern telecommunication systems concepts, design, architecture, planning and optimization. The course covers both wireless cellular systems and optical fiber networks. Emphasis is placed on tools and concepts that can be leveraged to enhance performance and efficiency of telecommunication systems. The course is roughly divided into four parts: Part I: [Lecture No. 1-4]: Course starts with review of fundamental concepts of telecommunication networks including notions of grade of service, soft and hard blocking, quality of service. Key state of the art telecommunication technologies including satellite and optical fiber based technologies are also discussed and compared. Part I then delves into basics of cellular systems planning and dimensioning. This is followed by introduction to the standard specific air interface and key operational principles of 2G and 3G systems. Part II: [Lecture No. 6-8]: Second part of the course starts with basics of Medium Access Techniques, including CDMA and OFDMA and then delves into OFDM based communication system design. Part III: [Lecture No. 9-12]: This part covers the architecture, planning and operation of LTE. Part IV: [Lecture No. 14-15]: This part covers advance concepts in LTE and LTE-A including Mobility management, SON and MIMO. |
TCOM 5970/ECE 5973 Emerging Topics in 5G and 6G |
This course provides an overview of selected topics that are currently being researched globally for developing 5G and 6G cellular network technologies. These topics include: self-organizing networks, applications of big data analytics for optimizing cellular networks, network densification, split of control and data plane, network function virtualization, heavy and localized cache, infrastructure sharing, concurrent operation at multiple frequency bands, simultaneous use of different MAC and PHY layers, and flexible spectrum allocation. To achieve its objectives, the course is divided into three parts: 1) Overview of 5G and 6G Landscape 2) Tools and techniques for designing Self Organizing Networks (SON) 3) Big Data Empowered SON for enabling 5G and beyond.
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ECE5973 980/ECE 5973 Local Wireless Networks and Standards |
The class Provides system approach to building wireless networks. It articulates underlying principles, commonalities, differences, and specific implementation issues associated with most wireless systems: IEEE802.11b,g,a,n, and ac; IEEE802.15.1 (Bluetooth); IEEE802.19.1 (TV white space); IEEE802.22 (Cognitive Wireless Network); IEEE802.15.2 (Wireless Coexistence Protocols). Particular attention is paid to the principles of air-interface design, the principles of wireless network operation, wireless WANs, local broadband and ad hoc networks. |
TCOM 5123/ECE 5123 Wireless Communication |
The class will cover wireless communications principles: 1) System design fundamentals: frequency reuse, channel assignment, handoff strategies, and interference and system capacity; 2) Mobile radio propagation path loss: reflection, diffraction, scattering, outdoor/indoor propagation models; 3) Mobile radio propagation fading and multipath: multipath measurements, mobile multipath channel parameters, fading, Rayleigh and Ricean distributions, and statistical models; 4) Modulation techniques: FM, AM, BPSK, DPSK, QPSK, MSK, GMSK, DS-SS, FH-SS and their performance in fading and multipath channels; 5) Channel coding, Equalization, and Diversity. |
TCOM 5533 Telecommunications Industry Overview |
This course focuses on the management of telecommunication and information technologies. It is an overview course and provides the student interested in telecommunications an introduction to technology, market and regulatory issues facing managers in a competitive, global economy. The course will explore telecommunications and current status of public and private networks (voice, data, video, wireless). Emerging technologies are explored as well as applications of these technologies and their implication for organizations. Regulation of and competition in the marketplace are discussed. |
TCOM 5543 Network Design and Management |
Fundamentals of the systems analysis and design of voice and data communications networks. Covers technical as well as managerial aspects of developing an integrated communications network. |
TCOM 5573 Optical Systems and Networks |
Comprehensive study of new developments and how optical technology is used in optical systems and networks; covers optical fiber applications as the best transmission medium for high capacity traffic in communications networking; also how advanced photonic technology has enable networks to transport broadband exceeding terabits/second/fiber. |
TCOM 5563 Computer and Communications Security |
Introduction to security problems in computing and communications, basic encryption and decryption techniques, secure encryption systems, cryptographic protocols and practices, security in networks and distributed systems, legal and ethical issues in computer security. |
TCOM 5272 Telecommunication Laboratory |
This laboratory course is designed to enhance the understanding of concepts and principles discussed in the computer networking text through a variety of networking exercises. It also emphasizes network performance, simulation, and the Internet protocols. There will be approximately eight laboratory modules. For each module, the students will write a short report after completing the laboratory exercises. |
TCOM 5671 Professional Project Proposal |
During this enrollment the student will propose a project that will demonstrate the student's comprehensive grasp of his/her field of study. A Project Committee, appointed by the director and consisting of at least three graduate faculty members, will review the proposal and approve the scope of it. |
TCOM 5682 Professional Project |
During this enrollment the student must satisfactorily complete the Professional Project that was proposed and approved during enrollment in TCOM 5671. At the conclusion of the Project, the Comprehensive Project Committee will evaluate the written report of the Project and determine whether the Project has satisfactorily met the standards of the assessment plan established during the enrollment in TCOM 5671. In addition to the written report of the Project, the Committee will require an oral defense of the Comprehensive Project. |
TCOM 5960 Readings in Telecommunications |
1-3 hours. May be repeated with change of subject matter; maximum credit nine hours. Devoted to special topics in telecommunications not covered in the regular curriculum or to supervised individual study. |
ECE 5353 Fiber Optics |
Principles of optical fiber wave-guiding and losses; sources and detectors; receivers; transmission system design; fiber-based broadband networks. |
ECE 5513 Communication Theory |
Probability theory, stochastic processes, detection, extraction and predictions of signals in noise. |
ECE 5973 Applied Electromagnetics |
Selected topics of current research interest not covered by regularly scheduled coursework. |
ECE 5973 Information Theory |
Review of probability theory; asymptotic equipartition property, typicality, information measures, Shannon source and channel coding theorems, error correcting codes, Gaussian channels, methods of type, large deviation theory. |
ECE 5980 Res. Masters Thesis |
Credit required for MS in ECE, six hours. |
ECE 5990 Special Studies |
Devoted to special topics in electrical engineering not covered in the regular curriculum or to supervised individual study. |
ECE 6973 Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering - Sensor Engineering and Networking |
Basic design of sensor systems, noise, and uncertainty analysis, techniques of multi-sensor fusion, application and design of wireless sensor networks, and current research topics are discussed in this course. |
ENGR 6990 Independent Study |
1-3 Credit Hours |
MATH 4163 Partial Differential Equations |
Physical models, classification of equations, Fourier series and boundary value problems, integral transforms, the method of characteristics. |
MATH 5383 Applied Modern Algebra |
Topics from the theory of error correcting codes, including Shannon's theorem, finite fields, families of linear codes such as Hamming, Golay, BCH, and Reed-Solomon codes. Other topics such as Goppa codes, group codes, and cryptography as time permits. No student may earn credit for both 4383 and 5383. Duplicates one hour of 4323. |
MATH 5763 Stochastic Processes |
Stochastic processes in discrete time including random walks, recurrent events, Markov chains and branching processes. Processes in continuous time including linear and nonlinear birth-death processes and diffusions. Applications taken from economics, engineering, operations research. |
MATH 5093 – Applied Numerical Methods |
This course is an introduction to some of the most important numerical methods for treating linear algebra problems (solving systems of linear equations, finding eigenvalues, etc.), for solving initial and boundary value-problems for ordinary differential equations as well as some important for practice partial differential equations (Poisson, heat, and wave equations). Many problems discussed in class and given as a homework will be motivated by physical and engineering applications. |