1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

EE752
Digital Communications:
Fundamentals.
12.5 credit points 4 hours per week average Hawthorn
Prerequisites: must have completed July-Now. requirements
Assessment: exam, assignment and laboratory work.
A subject in the Master of Engineering by coursework
(Telecommunications and Computer Systems Engineering)
0 b jectives
To develop an understanding of basic communications
techniques used in modern digital transmission systems.
Content
Baseband and Passband modulation and demodulation,
and error rates due to noise;
demodulation of sequences;
data transmission error protecting codes;
digital modulation codes;
synchronisation;
robustness and diversity.
Recommended reading
Blahut, R.E., Digital Transmission of Information. N.Y., Addison-
Wesley, 1990.
EE754 Broadband Multimedia Networks
12.5 credit points 4 hours per week average Hawthorn
Prerequisites: must be doing or have done EE751
Assessment: exam, assignment and laboratory work.
A subject in the Master of Engineering by coursework
(Telecommunications and Computer Systems Engineering)
0 biedives
To ;evelop an understanding of the concepts of Integrated
Services Digital Networks (ISDN), and Broadband ISDN.
Content
ISDN: Concepts: principles, evolution, user interface,
objectives, benefits and services;
Architecture and standards;
Transmission: channels, subscriber loop, user access;
Protocols: architecture. connections.
,.
~acket switched
calls, common channel signalling, link access protocol-
D, -. physical layer;
Frame Relay: Applications, architecture, user data, network
function.
Congestion control;
BISDN: Architecture, Asynchronous Transfer Mode
protocols;
Virtual channels, virtual paths, control signalling;
ATM standards, cells, header formats, error control;
ATM traffic characteristics, multimedia sources,
bandwidth on demand, aggregation;
Congestion control, connection admission control,
bandwidth assignment strategies.
SONET / SDH optical standards.
Recommended reading
Hiroshi, S., Teletrafic Technologies in ATM Networks. Boston,
Artech House, 1994
Stas, W, ISDNand BroadELnd ISDN. N.Y., Mac&, 1992
Stallings, W, Data and Computer Communications. Fourth edn,
N.Y., Macmillan, 1994
EE757 Personal and Mobile Communications
12.5 credit points 4 hours per week average Hawthorn
Prerequisites: nil Assessment: exam, assignment and
laboratory work.
A subject in the Master of Engineering by coursework
(Telecommunications and Computer Systems Engineering)
0 biedives
Understand and use common mobile communications
terminology.
Explain the behaviour of mobile communications
systems and techniques.
Analyse and critically evaluate performance of systems.
Design systems to specified parameters, using analytical
and empirical rules.
Content
Mobile and Personal Communications Systems:
Introduction to mobile radio communications; Cellular
concepts, system operation, handover for analogue cellular
(AMPS); Mobile radio signal propagation; Small scale fading
and multipath; Analogue and Digital Modulation
techniques; Equalisation, Diversity and coding; Cellular
systems standards: AMPS, USDC, GSM and CDMA, and
capacity comparisons; Wireless networking and PCS.
Recommended Reading
Duff W.G., A handbook on mobile communications,
Germantown, Md, Don While consultants, 1976.
IEEE Personal Communications, IEEE, N.Y.
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE, N.Y.
Jakes, W.C. Mobile Radio Communications, N.Y. Wiley, 1974.
Jakoda A. and De-Villepen M., Mobile Communications,
Palaiseau, France, M Mody and M.B. Pautet, 1992.
Parsons J.D. and J.D. Gardiner, Mobile Communications Systems,
Glasgow, Blackie, 1989.
Singer E.N., Land Mobile Radio Systems, 2nd ed., Englewood
Cliffs, N.J. 1994.
Steele, R Mobale Radio Communications, London, Pentech, 1992.
EE760 Research Project A
25 credit points 8 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisites: EE740 & other prerequisites may apply to
particular projects Assessment: verbal and m'tten report;
demonstrated implementation pe$ormance
An subject in the Masters and Graduate Diploma of
Engineering by coursework (Telecommunications,
Computer Systems Engineering and Biomedical
Engineering)
0 biedives
To develop the students ability to comprehend an analysis
and specification, and to design, implement and evaluate a
particular assigned implementation task to meet the
specifications. Students should develop personal, time and
resource management skills.
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