Classes in ENTS
| ENTS630 | The Economics of International Telecommunications (3 credits) | ||
| Economic analysis in telecommunications: the demand for services, the nature of production, competition, optimal pricing, and alternative regulatory options. Restricted to ENTS majors. All non-majors will need to obtain department permission. | |||
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| ENTS635 | Decision Support Methods for Telecommunication Managers (3 credits) | ||
| Prerequisite: MATH 241 and ENEE 324 or equivalent. The aim of this course is to introduce management science techniques for informed decision making. Topics covered will include data analysis and regression, optimization models and applications (workforce scheduling, manufacturing, network design, facility location), sensitivity analysis, decision trees, risk analysis and business simulation models. Emphasis will be on telecommunications managerial problems, model development and the use of software packages for decision support. Restricted to ENTS majors. All non-majors will need to obtain department permission. | |||
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| ENTS640 | Telecommunication Networks (3 credits) | ||
| An overview of design issues and the important industry standards for digital communications networks. | |||
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| ENTS653 | PCS System Implementation (3 credits) | ||
| Restricted to ENTS majors. All non-majors will need to obtain permission of department. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENTS653 or ENTS689A. Formerly ENTS689A. Engineering issues associated with designing and deploying a PCS cellular wireless communications system in the current world environment will be examined. It will focus on implementation issues such as the impact of real world concerns on the deployment strategy and the use of good engineering paractice to overcome obstacles. Students will create and modify mock deployments using professional tools for cell planning and interference analysis. Students will also be exposed to drive testing tools and concepts for migration to future technologies(3G and beyond). | |||
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| ENTS657 | Satellite Communication Systems (3 credits) | ||
| Formerly ENTS 689S. | |||
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| ENTS665 | Advanced Wireless Communications Networks (3 credits) | ||
| Prerequisite: ENTS689A or ENTS656. Restricted to ENTS majors. All non-majors will need to obtain permission from the department. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENTS689E or ENTS665. Some of the key concepts and technologies used in the design of third generation (3G) wireless networks and standards are presented. It will start with a review of wireless CDMA concepts and terminolgies followed by a more detailed discussion of new concepts and methodologies adopted in the next generation systems of efficiently support multimedia high-speed data traffic. Some of the key concepts include link adaptation, scheduling, space-time and other diversity techniques as well as advanced channel and source coding. As many techniques and concepts are similar across different 3G standards, which will initially focus on details of channelization and protocol designs for one of 3G technologies, i.e. CDMA2000 family of standards. Based on this foundation, we will then present overviews of other standards, e.g. EDGE, WCDMA and TD-CDMA emphasizing on their similarities and differences with CDMA2000. In addition to air interface features the course also presents network elements and architectures and as well as engineering considerations for 3G radio network dimensioning. | |||
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| ENTS689N | Special Topics:Network Programming & Design (3 credits) | ||
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