TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
Academic Year 2015/2016 - 1° YearCredit Value: 9
Scientific field: ING-INF/03 - Telecommunications
Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
Taught classes: 49 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
ENGLISH VERSION
Detailed Course Content
Fundamentals of digital communication systems; Transmission on a Gaussian channel; Transmission on fading channels, equalizers; OFDM and MIMO systems. Transmission on a copper medium; fundamentals of fiber optic transmission. multiplexing techniques; PCM multiplex; Plesiochronous and synchronous digital multiplexing; SONET and SDH. Multiple access techniques: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, OFDMA. Fiber optic systems; optical devices (sources, photodetectors, amplifiers); WDM and DWDM systems; design of optical networks; xDSL systems; Radio communication systems; properties and characteristics of radiopropagation. Radio links; satellite telecommunications; link budget.
Textbook Information
A. Pattavina. Reti di Telecomunicazioni, Mc Graw Hill
W. Stallings: Comunicazioni e Reti Wireless, Mc Graw Hill
U. Mengali, M. Morelli: Trasmissione numerica, ed. McGraw-Hill;
R. L. Freeman: Telecommunication System Engineering, ed. Wiley.