A broad exposure to computer system structure and net-working including software abstractions in operating systems for orchestrating the usage of the computing resources.

Introduction to problems in computer networking, including error recovery, medium access, routing, flow control, and transport. Emphasis on current best practice. Includes programming of networked applications.

Principles of computer networks, including medium access, ARQ protocols, routing, congestion avoidance and control. Emphasis on design options and tradeoffs. Includes significant network application programming.

Basics of network management with emphasis on data communication networks, TCP/IP and web-based network management, and practical aspects of network and network management.

Study of telecommunication systems emphasizing functional roles of the various portions of the system and how various functional components support and interact with one another.

Detailed study of the principles of data transmission systems and their performance, reinforced by laboratory exercises.

Overview of telecommunication regulation at the federal, state, and judicial levels; review of FCC policies and restrictions on Bell operating companies under the AT&T Consent Agreement.

Courses of timely interest to the profession, conducted by resident or visiting faculty. (Profs: Pete Wellborn and Jim Butler)

A broad examination of the general dimension of providing security for information processing systems - secure operating systems and applications, network security, cryptography, security protocols, etc.

A team-oriented exploration of the network design and business planning involved in today's Internet solutions. Management, engineering and computer science students work together to build a viable service provider business case. Teams compete for cash awards, and top two teams participate in the international University Case Competion (UCC 2000) at Nortel Networks in Ottawa (Ontario CAN).

Principles and practice of computer networks, including signaling and framing, error control, medium access, routing, congestion control, end-to-end transport, and network APIs.

Basics of network management with emphasis on data communication networks, TCP/IP and web-based network management, and practical aspects of network and network management

Methods for evaluating the performance of communication networks with emphasis on modeling, mathematical analysis, computer simulation, and measurement.

Focus on the data link layer and its relationship to layers below and above. Gigabit Ethernet, SONET, fiber channel; media including wireless, satellite, xDSL, cable.

Detailed discussion of the problems and solution techniques that arise in internetworking. Topics include routing, addressing, quality of service, and security.

End-to-end functional building blocks and their use in adaptive and non-adaptive applications, including
multimedia: coding, compression, security, directory services.

Investigates the infrastructure required to develop mobile and ubiquitous computing applications and establishes major research themes and experimental practices.

A broad examination of the general dimension of providing security for information processing systems - secure operating systems and applications, network security, cryptography, security protocols, etc.

A review of concepts, techniques, and systems issues in advanced Internet critical for developing search engines (incl. robots and indexing servers), Web servers, application servers (such as the E-commerce information servers like eBay, Cnet, Amazon), and web-based online transaction systems.

Introductory data communication concepts. Data communication applications in organizations. Overview of data communication products and services available from a technology consumer perspective.

Introductory data communication concepts. Data communication applications in organizations. Overview of data communication products and services available from a technology consumer perspective.

A review of the politics and environment of telecommunication policymaking, including the role of communication in society, the impact of government on the evolution of communications technologies, and proposals for reform.(Havick)

An examination of the political process that makes telecommunications policy. The course covers the historical origins of government management of telecommunications, the Federal Communications Act, the Federal Communications Commission, the US Congress, judiciary and executive, and special interest activity. Telecommunications is compared to other types of policies. Discussions include historical and contemporary telecommunications issues.(Havick)

Introduction to signal processing for discrete-time and continuous-time signals. Filtering. Frequency response. Fourier Transform. Z Transform. Laboratory emphasizes computer-based signal processing.

Introduction to Digital Signal Processing. Sampling Theorem, Discrete-time Fourier transform. power spectrum, discrete Fourier transform and the FFT algorithm, z-transform, digital filter design and implementation.

To present the basic concepts of communication network protocols and their performance analysis.

Introduces the principles of Monte Carlo techniques and network simulation, and applies them to design issues in ATM systems.

Architectural, performance and design aspects of fiber-optic communications networks, components and technologies. Relationship between the physical network implementation and the higher-level network architecture.

Basic M-ary digital communications systems, with emphasis on system design and performance analysis in the presence of additive noise.

The theory and practice of efficient digital communications over linear dispersive channels, including adaptive equalization and synchronization.

To introduce various topics that are fundamental to cellular mobile telephone systems.

To introduce the mathematical theory of communications. Emphasis will be placed on Shannon's theorems and their use in the analysis and design of communication systems.

To introduce the theory and practice of error control coding, with emphasis on linear, cyclic, convolutional, and parallel concatenated codes.

Fundamental concepts of computer network architecture and protocols.

Fundamental concepts of queueing systems, and applications of queueing theory to the performance evaluation of computer networks.

Fundamental concepts of high-speed networking and switching.

Fundamental concepts of wireless networks.

Detection theory and estimation theory and their application to communications and statistical signal processing problems.

Latest developments in communications and networking are treated in lecture and seminar. Emphasis on current literature and open research areas.