Classes in ENTS
| ENTS622 | Introduction to Digital Communication Systems (3 credits) | ||
| Restricted to ENTS majors. All non-majors will need to obtain permission for the department. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENTS622 or ENTS689B. Formerly ENTS689B. The course objective is to convey the principles of analog and digital communication systems design. Students will analyze the performance and relative merits of different modulation and demodulation, signal processing, and error control schemes in communication systems. Also provides an understanding of the design of modern digital communication systems. Click here for more course information. | |||
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| ENTS625 | Management and Organizational Behavior in the Telecommunications Industry (3 credits) | ||
| Roles of the general manager in: determining target markets and designing strategies for them; formulating and implementing corporate and business level strategies; and staffing, developing, and managing human resources and coordinating them with the organization's financial and physical resources. Also emphasizes the building of interpersonal skills with respect to the selection of members for work teams and team formation, leadership of teams toward the achievement of strategic goals and total quality, the development and motivation of team members, and the evaluation of team and individual performance. | |||
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| ENTS632 | Telecommunications Marketing Management (3 credits) | ||
| Strategic marketing, sales and customer service challenges confronting organizations in the computer, communications and media industries. Volatile technology, regulatory and competitive environments as a backdrop to strategic planning and management in the marketing domain. | |||
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| ENTS641 | Communication Protocols (3 credits) | ||
| Prerequisite: ENTS 640. Techniques for the specification, design, analysis, verification and testing of communication protocols are developed. Various protocol services will be discussed and example protocols given. | |||
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| ENTS654 | (PermReq)Optimization and Analysis of GSM Networks (3 credits) | ||
| Prerequisite: ENTS689A or ENTS653; and permission of department. Restricted to ENTS majors. All non-majors will need to obtain permission of department. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENTS654 or ENTS689B. The techniques needed to successfully optimize a functioning GSM network will be examined. Students will conduct extensive drive tests of a working network in the Washington DC area using state-of-the-art drive test equipment and will analyze the recorded data with post-processing analysis tools. Also, they will learn to recognize problems based on network behaviors and what courses of action are available to correct them. Lab work and data collection will constitute a majority of the class work. | |||
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| ENTS656 | Introduction to Cellular Communication Networks (3 credits) | ||
| Prerequisite: ENTS 620 or equivalent. Concepts and techniques involved in wireless digital communications with emphasis on cellular and PCS systems. Properties of Mobile radio channels; intersymbol interference, multipath, and fading effects; interleaving and diversity; multiple access schemes (TDMA, FDMA, CDMA, SDMA); interuser interference, traffic issues, and cell capacity; power control strategies; frequency reuse and channel assignment; handoff, paging, and location update; cell layout; introduction to cellular and PCS standards. | |||
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