OT3TS - Telecommunication Systems

Course specification
Course title		Telecommunication Systems
Acronym		OT3TS
Study programme		Electrical Engineering and Computing
Module		Telecommunications and Information Technologies
Type of study		bachelor academic studies
Lecturer (for classes)		professor PhD Nataša Nešković
Lecturer/Associate (for practice)		professor PhD Ana Gavrovska
Lecturer/Associate (for OTC)		professor PhD Ana Gavrovska asst. professor PhD Mladen Koprivica
ESPB		6.0	Status	mandatory
Condition		none
The goal		Introduce students to up to date telecommunication systems.
The outcome		Empowering of students with knowledge sufficient for technical documentation reading and to prepare some typical calculations and measurements on telecommunication systems.
Contents
Contents of lectures		Radio communication system. Broadcasting systems: audio and TV. Satellite Systems. Different video broadcasting/multicasting systems. Frequency bands. Frequency planning and frequency assignment and allocations. Fiber Optic Transmission Systems. Wavelength division multiplexing. Cables. Transmission media. System impairments and performance measures. Link budget. Pricing in telecommunications.
Contents of exercises		resolving of simple problems and calculations of telecomunication systems parameters.
Literature
Essentials of Modern Telecommunications Systems, Kularahtna, N. and Dias D. Artech House, Inc. 2004. (Original title) Martin Cave, Chris Doyle and William Webb, Essentials of Modern Spectrum Management, Cambridge University Press 2007. (Original title) Fundamentals of Telecommunications, Roger L. Freeman, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999. (Original title) Costas Courcoubetis, Richard Weber, Pricing Communication Networks - Economics, Technology and Modelling, Wiley Interscience Series, 2003. (Original title)
Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year
Lectures	Exercises	OTC	Study and Research	Other classes
3	1	1
Methods of teaching		Lectures, auditory and laboratory exercises. Homeworks.
Knowledge score (maximum points 100)
Pre obligations		Points	Final exam	Points
Activites during lectures		0	Test paper	70
Practical lessons		30	Oral examination	0
Projects		0
Colloquia		0
Seminars		0