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SYSC 4700: Telecommunications Engineering

SYSC 4700: Telecommunications Engineering. Course Instructor Professor Halim Yanikomeroglu. Outline. Course overview Course instructor and lecture team Schedule and marking Important points. The course. Broader than most other courses you’ve had. It gives you the Big Picture .

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SYSC 4700: Telecommunications Engineering

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  1. SYSC 4700: Telecommunications Engineering Course Instructor Professor Halim Yanikomeroglu

  2. Outline • Course overview • Course instructor and lecture team • Schedule and marking • Important points

  3. The course • Broader than most other courses you’ve had. It gives you the Big Picture. • Supplements other courses (such as SYSC4600 Digital Communications). • Will be useful in career planning. Many engineering and computer science careers are related directly or indirectly to the telecommunications industry. • Helps in job interviews!

  4. Course prerequisites • 4th year status • SYSC 3501 Communication Theory OR SYSC 3503 Communication Theory II

  5. Course Content • Network overview • Basic principles of network components • Information, telephone systems, transmission media, access, multiplexing, switching, synchronization, signaling, etc. • Network design and evolution • Standards, planning, cellular, WiFi, WPAN, wireless, broadband ATM, the internet, optical networks, multihop networks, network evolution • Network operation, security • Network management and control, Bell CO + GNMC visit, Bell Mobility visit • Political, business, and entrepreneurial aspects • Economic/financial analysis, federal telecommunications policy, CRTC regulation • How to start an IT company

  6. Course Instructor and TAs Name: Professor Halim Yanikomeroglu Office: 7032 MC (Minto Centre) Email: halim@sce.carleton.ca Office Hours: Fridays, 10:00 – 11:00 am Best way to contact the instructor: after SYSC 4700 lectures and through e-mail (use your Carleton email) TAs: Yaser Fouad 4038 MC <yfouad@sce.carleton.ca> Irem Bor 4032 MC <irembor@sce.carleton.ca>

  7. Lecture Team • University • Industry • Bell Canada • Ericsson • Microsoft • Cisco • Alcatel-Lucent • Huawei • Mitel • Softwright • ThinkRF • Government • CRC (Communications Research Centre of Canada) • Correctional Service of Canada

  8. Marking • Bell Central Office + GNMC tour: 5% • Bell Mobility Switching Centre tour: 5% • Attendance (17 out of the 22 lectures): 10% • Mid-term exam: 15% (Thursday, Feb 13) • Assignments: 5% • Project: 15% • Final Exam: 45%

  9. Schedule • Lectures: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 8:35 – 9:55 am, 208 TB • Laboratory: Thursdays, 2:35 pm – 5:25 pm, 507 AA (Architecture Building) • Laboratories consist of a number of components: • a) Bell Central Office (CO) and Global Network Management Centre (GNMC) tour (compulsory) • b) Bell Mobility Switching Centre tour (compulsory) Sign-up sheets will be posted next to my office door (7032 MC) • c) TA office hours (Thursdays, 2:35 pm – 5:25 pm, 507 AA) • d) Group project meetings • Labs are starting on Thursday, January 9

  10. Important Points • Easy (not too technical); difficult (very broad). • Attend all the lectures. Do not loose the 10% attendance mark. • At least half of the exam questions will be from Prof. Yanikomeroglu’s lectures. • Check the course website regularly! • Ask questions - most of the lecturers are from industry or government. They will expect and appreciate questions, even more than professors do. • There will be many acronyms. If you don’t know them, ask!

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