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COURSE OUTLINE

MSc. IN TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

YEAR I CORE UNIT WEIGHT

EEE 3100 Engineering Mathematics 1 EEE 3111 Project Design and Management 1 EEE 3112 Signal Processing 1 EEE 3113 Telecommunication Policy and Regulation 1 EEE 3117 Antennas and Radiowave Propagation 1 ELECTIVES*

EEE 3114 Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Techniques 1 EEE 3115 Communication Systems 1 EEE 3116 Digital Communication and Networks 1 EEE 3118 Information Theory 1 EEE 3119 Digital Video Systems 1 EEE 3120 Microwave Engineering 1 *The electives to be given in any one year shall be determined by the department.

YEAR 2 EEE 3200 Project and Thesis 7.0 COURSE DESCRIPTION

YEAR ONE EEE 3100 ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS

Tensor analysis and Matrices: Algebra of tensor, quotient law, metric tensors, dual tensors, dyadics, determinates, eigen values and eigen vectors, direct solutions to matrix equation, iterative solutions including steepest descent. Special functions: Legendre, modified Bessel, hyper geometric functions. Orthogonality of Bessel functions, Hankel functions, generation of Legendre functions. Integral equations: Classification, degenerate kernels, Neumann and Fred Holm series, Schmidt-Hilbert theory. Greens functions in one and many dimensions. Calculus of variations: Variation methods; Weighted residual methods; Construction of the piecewise Lagrange and Hermite interpolations over the finite element in one, two and three space-dimensions; Raleigh-Ritz, least square and Caleskin methods. Stability, analysis and convergence of finite elements methods. EEE 3111 PROJECT DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT

Review of planning methods; Comparison of systems Design, Planning and control; Network Planning using path method, activities sequencing, event and activity time. Critical Path Analysis (CPA) bar chart; Control Path Method (CPM) bar chart; Programme Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT); Procendence Networks; Graphic evaluation and review Techniques (GERT); Planning Methods and use of tools; Planning procedures.

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Operation and maintenance of engineering projects: Planning, routine sequences, organisation and management. Resource allocation: Cash flows forecasting; Plan organisation and cost budgeting. Research project: Identification, selection, development and appraisal. Participatory approach to research project proposal development; donor agencies; financial organizations. Dessemination of project results; workshops, seminars, conferences and publications. EEE 3112 SIGNAL PROCESSING

The fundamentals of discrete signals theory: application in telephony, image processing and Control Engineering. Fourier transform and fast Fourier Transform:, spetral analysis filter; finite and infinite impulse response filters, Digital Signal processing: Microprocessor applications; finite word-length effects, and introduction to spectral estimation and adaptive digital filters. Image Processing: Fundamental image processing. Digital image fundamentals. Image transforms. Image enhancement. Image restoration. Image segmentation. Boundary descriptors. Recognition and interpretation.

EEE 3113 TELECOMMUNICATION POLICY AND REGULATIONS

Telecommunications policy environment: Comparative analysis. Management of inter organisation networks: Interconnection, regulatory, costs and tariffs. Regulatory structures: Domestic and international, and their interaction. Telecommunications industrial structure: players and market structures. Globalisation: Occurrence, consequences and impact on developing countries. Convergency: Drivers, regulatory and market implications. Electronic commerce: Scale and scope, hype vis-à-vis reality.

EEE 3114 NEURAL NETWORKS AND FUZZY LOGIC TECHNIQUES

Artificial neural networks techniques: Application to power systems, telecommunication, power electronics and control engineering systems. Fuzzy logic techniques: Application of Fuzzy logic techniques in telecomunication, power system, power electronics and control engineering systems. Comparison of neural networks technique and fuzzy logic with linear, nonlinear and dynamic programming methods. Combination of neural networks and fuzzy logic techniques for solving system problems.

EEE 3115 COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS Satellite telecommunication systems: Satellite link design and systems. Station keeping; altitude and orbits. Regional international telecommunication systems, such as international telecommunication satellites (INTELSAT). Radar communication systems: Principles of radar, pulsed and continuous wave radar and free space radar equation. Radar measurement: Suppression of permanent echoes, pulse-width and pulse reception frequency. Fibre optic communication systems. Mono mode and multimode. Optic fibre transmission; Losses in fibre. Light sources. Detectors and connectors. Mobile radio and cellular communication systems: Microwave communication system. Computer communication systems. Internet, e-mail, teledata; viewdata and multimedia. Video and image coding formats. Representation of colour. Broadcast and videophone technology. Digital radio communications cellular concepts: Properties of the radio channel, Global Systems Management (GSM) and operation of GSM system. Features of the GSM standard: GSM data services, spectral efficiency, Coded Division Multiple Access (CDMA), cordless communication systems. The ALOHA medium access protocol. The private mobile environment.

EEE 3116 DIGITAL COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKS

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Multiplexing. Digital modulation techniques: Amplitude Shift Keying (ASK); Frequency Shift Keying (FSK); M-ary modulation; Phase Shift Keying (PSK); Differential Phase Shift Keying (DPSK); Minimum Shift Keying (MSK). Modems. Pocket switching, routing alogorithms. Protocols: Open Systems Interconnections (OSI) models; Local Area Networks (LANS); and Wide Area Networks (WANS). Signalling: Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) and common channel signalling. Digital transmission: Integrated Service Digital Network-Narrow band (ISDN-N), Integrated Service Digital Network-Broad band (ISDN-B), Plesiochronous Digital Hiararchy (PDH) and Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH). Transport structure: Fanning container and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) cell structure. Virtual path and virtual channel switching. User control and management layers. EEE 3117 ANTENNAS AND RADIOWAVE PROPAGATION

Some types of practical radiating Systems. Electric and magnetic dipole radiators. Systemization of calculation of radiating fields. Long straight wire antenna and half-wave dipole. Antenna parameters: Radiation pattern, antenna gain and radiation resistance. Antennas above earth or conducting plane. Rhombic antennas. Radiation from fields over Aperture: Fields as Sources of radiation. Radiating apertures excited by plane waves: Circular aperture with uniform illumination and with Gaussian illumination. Arrays: Linear arrays, end-fire arrays and unequally spaced arrays. Phase scanning of arrays. Radiation from diffraction gratings. Polynomial formulation of arrays and its limitations on directivity. Yagi-Uda arrays. Frequency-independent antennas; log-periodic arrays. Input impedance for wire antennas. Antenna measurements. Ground wave propagation: Plane-earth reflection, space waves and surface waves. Effects of ionized gases: Refection and refraction of ionospheric waves, transmission, and attenuation effects.

EEE 3118 INFORMATION THEORY

Information measurement: Concepts of information and its measurements. Compression of information, channel coding and data compaction. Information sources: discrete and continuous sources. Entrophy of source and source coding. Compact codes and code redundancy. Channel codes: Parity chek-bit, error detection and correction, discrete channel models, effect of uncertainty and continuous channel model. Channel capacity; source and channel matching. EEE 3119 DIGITAL VIDEO SYSTEMS Image coding formats and standards. Representation of colour. Coding technologies, Huffman-entropy, arithmetic decoding and discrete cosine transform. Audio coding techniques. Problems in mobile video transmission. Closed Circuit TV system (CCTV). Video Cassette Recorders (VCR) and video disc systems. High definition TV (HDTV) systems: HDTV standards and compatibility Multiplexed analogue component (MAC) signals: MAC decoding and interfacing and its advantages. Digital video and audio signals. Video information services: Videotext information, teletext systems and teletext decorder. Viewdata. Videophone cable TV (CATV) system: Cable channels; cable systems; subscribers network; trunk and cable distribution systems. Scrambling; Traps and scrambling conditional access. Direct broadcasting by satellites: Transmission and reception. EEE 3120 MICROWAVE ENGINEERING Metallic and dielectric waveguides: Rectangular metallic guides; distribution of fields and currents. Power by dominant Transverse Electrict (TE10) mode and attenuation. Circular metallic guides; distribution of fields, dominant TE11 mode, and attenuation. Circular dielectric

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guides; modes of propagation; Circuit parameters of two-port networks. Matrix representation of microwave junctions; Scattering matrix and symmetrical properties of waveguide junctions. Microwave transmission devices. Impednance matching. Nonreciprocal microwave components. Resonators: Rectangular and cylindrical cavity resonators. Field analysis and high-power testing. Frequency muiltiplexers: Junction-type diplexer. Microwave frequency discriminators. Periodic structures: Circuit analysis of a reactively loaded line and spatial harmonics in period structures. Stripline and microstrip discontinuities: Returns, blocks. Bias-injection circuits and waveguide filters. YEAR TWO

EEE 3200 PROJECT AND THESIS

On completing the programme of study a candidate shall submit a thesis embodying the results of an original investigation in an area approved and supervised by the department of electrical engineering. The thesis shall be presented in the thesis format specified in the faculty of engineering regulations. The thesis should demonstrate that the student has mastered the procedure of carrying out engineering investigations and projects, is capable of using the state of the art techniques in the are of investigation, and has the ability of critically analyse, to interpret and to concisely present the findings of the investigation.