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Wireless Communication (EC-7005)

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Syllabus UNIT 1: Introduction Applications and requirements of wireless services: history, types of services, requirements for the services, economic and social aspects. Technical challenges in wireless communications: multipath propagation, spectrum limitations, limited energy, user mobility, noise and interference-limited systems. Propagation mechanism: free space loss, reflection and transmission, diffraction, scattering by rough surfaces, wave guiding. UNIT 2 : Wireless Propagation channels Statistical description of the wireless channel: time invariant and variant two path models, small-scale fading with and without a dominant component, Doppler spectra, temporal dependence of fading, large scale fading. Wideband and directional channel characteristics: causes of delay dispersion, system theoretic description of wireless channels, WSSUS model, condensed parameters, ultra wideband channels, directional description. UNIT 3 : Channel models: Narrowband, wideband and direc...

Operating Systems (EC-7005)

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Syllabus UNIT 1: Introduction to System Programs & Operating Systems, Evolution of Operating System (mainframe, desktop, multiprocessor, Distributed, Network Operating System, Clustered & Handheld System), Operating system services, Operating system structure, System Call & System Boots, Operating system design & Implementations, System protection, Buffering & Spooling. Types of Operating System: Bare machine, Batch Processing, Real Time, Multitasking & Multiprogramming, time-sharing system. UNIT 2 : File: concepts, access methods, free space managements, allocation methods, directory systems, protection, organization ,sharing & implementation issues, Disk & Drum Scheduling, I/0 devices organization, I/0 devices organization, I/0 buffering, I/O Hardware, Kernel I/O subsystem, Transforming I/O request to hardware operations. Device Driver: Path managements, Sub module, Procedure, Scheduler, Handler, Interrupt Service Routine. File system in Linux...

Optical Communication (EC-7003)

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Syllabus UNIT 1: Overview of Optical Fiber Communications (OFC): Motivation, optical spectral bands, key elements of optical fiber systems. Optical fibers: basic optical laws and definitions, optical fiber modes and configurations, mode theory for circular waveguides, single mode fibers, graded-index fiber structure, fiber materials, photonic crystal fibers, fiber fabrication, fiber optic cables. UNIT 2 : Optical sources: Light emitting diodes (LED): structures, materials, quantum efficiency, LED power, modulation of an LED. Laser diodes: modes, threshold conditions, laser diode rate equations, external quantum efficiency, resonant frequencies, structure and radiation patterns, single mode lasers, modulation of laser diodes. Power launching and coupling: source to fiber power launching, fiber to fiber joints, LED coupling to single mode fibers, fiber splicing, optical fiber connectors. UNIT 3 : Photo detectors: pin photo detector, avalanche photodiodes, photo detector noi...

Data Communication (EC-7004)

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Syllabus UNIT 1: Introduction, Switching Techniques: Circuit Switching, Message Switching, Packet Switching, Protocols, Layered Network Architecture and Architecture of OSI & TCP/IP Reference model, ATM Model, ISDN and BISDN, Physical Layer Transmission Medium, Modem, Topologies. UNIT 2 : Data Link Layer: Framing , HDLC, ARQ: Stop and Wait, Sliding Window. Efficiency, Error detection and Correction. CRC, Checksum, MAC Sub layer – LAN Protocols, ALOHA, Slotted, ALOHA, CSMA, CSMA/CD, Token Bus, Ring. UNIT 3 : Network Layer: Routing – Data gram and Virtual Ckt, Dijkstra’s, Bellman Ford, DV and Link state routing. Congestion Control and ATM Traffic Management – AAL, X.25, Internet Layer : IP Protocols, ICMP,ARP and RARP. UNIT 4 : Transport Layer: Connection Oriented transport Protocol Mechanism, TCP, TSAP, Transport Flow Regulation, UDP Fragmentation & Reassembly, Session and Transport Interaction, Synchronization Points, Session Protocols Data Unit. UNIT 5 ...

Power Electronics (EC-7004)

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Syllabus UNIT 1: Advantages and application of power electronic devices characteristics, Symbol &application of power diodes, power transistors, GTO, TRIAC, DIAC, Power MOSFET, IGBT, LASCR, Fast recovery diode, schottkey diode MCTs. Principle of operation of SCR, Two transistor analogy, brief idea of construction of SCR, Static characteristics of SCR, Condition of turn on & off of SCR Gate characteristics, Method for turning on of SCR, Turnoff methods, different commutation techniques (Class A,B,C,D,E, & F Commutation) firing of SCR, Resistance firing circuit, Resistance, capacitance firing circuit, UJT firing cut, protection of SCR over voltage, Over current, Superior firing, Design of snubber circuit and protection of gate of SCR, heating, cooling & mounting of SCR. UNIT 2 : Operation and analysis of single phase (Half wave & Full Wave) and multiphase (Three Phase) uncontrolled and controlled rectifier circuit with resistive, resistive& inductive load...

Digital Image Processing (EC-7004)

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Syllabus UNIT 1: Digital Image Processing (DIP) Introduction, examples of fields that use DIP, fundamental steps in DIP, components of an image processing system. Digital Image Fundamentals: elements of visual perception, image sensing and acquisition, image sampling and quantization, basic relationships between pixels. UNIT 2 : Image Transforms Two-dimensional (2D) impulse and its shifting properties, 2D continuous Fourier Transform pair, 2D sampling and sampling theorem, 2D Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), properties of 2D DFT. Other transforms and their properties: Cosine transform, Sine transform, Walsh transform, Hadamard transform, Haar transform, Slant transform, KL transform UNIT 3 : Image Enhancement Spatial domain methods: basic intensity transformation functions, fundamentals of spatial filtering, smoothing spatial filters (linear and non-linear), sharpening spatial filters (unsharp masking and high boost filters), combined spatial enhancement method. Frequency d...

Information Theory & Coding (EC-7005)

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Syllabus UNIT 1: Introduction : Information Theory, Information and entropy, joint and conditional entropy, differential entropy, relative entropy, mutual information, relationship between entropy and mutual information. UNIT 2 : Source coding: Shannon’s source coding theorem, Huffman coding, Shannon Fano coding. Channel Coding Channel capacity, binary symmetric channel, binary erasure channel, Shannon’s channel coding theorem. UNIT 3 : Linear Block Codes: Definition, properties, matrix description of linear block codes, generator and parity check matrix, encoding of linear block codes, decoding of linear block codes, syndrome decoding, standard array, co-sets, perfect codes, systematic block code, Hamming code. UNIT 4 : Cyclic Codes: Introduction, properties of cyclic codes, polynomials and division algorithm, and decoding of cyclic codes, matrix description of cyclic codes, burst error correction, cyclic redundancy check. Circuit implementation of cyclic codes. ...

Microwave Engineering (EC-7001)

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Syllabus UNIT 1: Microwave Transmission System : General representation of EM field in terms of TEM, TE and TM components, Uniform guide structures, rectangular wave guides, Circular Wave guides, Solution in terms of various modes, Properties of propagating and evanescent modes, Dominant modes, Normalized model voltages and currents, Power flow and energy storage in modes frequency range of operation for single mode working, effect of higher order modes, Strip line and micro strip lines general properties, Comparison of coaxial, Micro strip and rectangular wave guides in terms of band width, power handling capacity, economical consideration etc. UNIT 2 : Microwave Networks and Component Transmission line ports of microwave network, Scattering matrix, Properties of scattering matrix of reciprocal, Non reciprocal, loss less, Passive networks, Examples of two, three and four port networks, wave guide components like attenuator, Phase shifters and couplers, Flanges, Bends, Irises, P...

Satellite Communication (EC-7002)

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Syllabus UNIT 1: Overview of satellite systems: Introduction, Frequency allocations for satellite systems. Orbits and launching methods: Kepler’s three laws of planetary motion, terms used for earth orbiting satellites, orbital elements, apogee and perigee heights, orbit perturbations, inclined orbits, local mean solar point and sun-synchronous orbits, standard time. UNIT 2 : The Geostationary orbit: Introduction, antenna look angles, polar mount antenna, limits of visibility, near geostationary orbits, earth eclipse of satellite, sun transit outage, launching orbits. Polarization: antenna polarization, polarization of satellite signals, cross polarization discrimination. Depolarization: ionospheric, rain, ice. UNIT 3 : The Space segment: introduction, power supply, attitude control, station keeping, thermal control, TT&C subsystem, transponders, antenna subsystem, Morelos and Satmex 5, Anik-satellites, Advanced Tiros-N spacecraft. The Earth segment: introduction, recei...