Prereq: MET CS 550 (or instructor's consent)
Covers advanced topics in modern telecom systems, as well as their technical basis and implementation. The topics presented in detail include information theory, source coding and data compression, channel coding, modulation, channel models, demodulation, detection, channel decoding, and source decoding. System parameters as well as the performance metrics such as bit error rate (BER) as a function of system parameters are derived for various transmission channels and modulators/demodulators schemes. Communications channel access techniques are analyzed, such as point-to-point and multipoint-to-point. Finally, applications of Network technologies, such as Ethernet, Wireless access, and Fiber Optics are presented.