TE5A Audiotechnics IX: 3+1+1




TE5KPZ Communication and recording codes IX: 3+1+1


Introduction. Coding channel. Markov chains models. Error-control codes. Block codes - linear, cyclic, BCH and Read-Solomon codes. Different decoding procedures. Convolutional codes. Structural properties. Different decoding principles: threshold decoding, sequential decoding, Viterbi algorithm. Turbo codes. Trellis-coded modulation. Codes for magnetic and optical channels. Statistical coding. Run-length codes. Self-synchronizing codes. Statistical and dynamical classical codes. LZ77 and LZ78 codes, arithmetical codes. Information theory and cryptography. Data security and secrecy in public networks.


TE5AOS Adaptive signal processing IX: 3+1+1




TE5AP Antennas and propagation of signals IX: 3+1+1




TE5E Economy IX: 3+1+0




TE5ITM Integrated telecommunication networks IX: 3+1+1


1.Introduction: History and Recent Developments. Network Principles. Networking elements. LAN, WAN and MAN. OSI model. LAN topology. Internetworking connections. Internet routing protokols. Network topologies. Network loading.

2.Ethernet: IEEE standards. MAC layer. IEEE 802.2 and IEEE 802.3 standards. Ethernet transceivers. NIC. Virtual private LAN. IPSec protocol. MPLS based VPN. Wireless LAN.

3.Token ring: Operation. MAC layer. TR multistation access unit. Cabling and connectors.

4.Integrated Digital Serices Network (ISDN):Overview of ISDN. ISDN channels. User Access. ISDN protocols.

5. Frame relay (FR). FR protocol architecture. FR call control. User data transfer. Network function. Congestion control.

6. Broadband ISDN (B-ISDN). Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). Protocol architecture. ATM Logical Connection. ATM cells. Transmission of ATM cells. ATM adaptation layer. Trafic and congestion control.

5.Internetworking. Performance of TCP/IP over: ATM networks, swiched virtual circuits, and satellite ATM networks. IP and WDM, SDH/SONET and WDM.

6.Broadband access technology. Interfaces and Management. Management of ATM switches. Management of the Internet (SNMP). ADSL Management. Optical access. Optical technology for IP. Wireless access. Exercises.

7. References:

[1] Buchanan, W. :”Advanced Data Communications and Networks”, Chapman&Hall, 1997.

[2] Stallings, W.:”Data and Comuter Communications”, Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1997.

[3] Lee, G.B.: and Kim W-J.:”Integrated Broadband Networks: TCP/IP, ATM, SDH/SONET,

and WDM/Optics”, Artech House Books, 2002.


TE5MPS Methods of design and simulation IX: 3+1+1


Introduction.

History of the Internet.

OSI referent model and TCP/IP architecture and protocols (IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP).

Local area networks, architecture and implementations.

Metropolitan and Wide area networks, architecture and implementations.

Data networks traffic analysis.

IP addressing.

DNS and DHCP services; IP addressing and DNS and DHCP services.

Routing on the Internet:

Interior routing protocols (RIP, OSPF, EIGRP),

Exterior routing protocols (BGP-4).

Voice over IP, architecture and implementations.

Multimedia Internet services.


TE5OGS Voice signal processing IX: 3+1+1


Language and speech: model of speech communication, acoustical feature of voices, coarticulation, linguistics elements, statistics of speech signal and language. Speech and hearing mechanisms: anatomy and physiology of speech and auditory mechanism, acoustic theory of speech production, models of speech and auditory mechanism. Auditory psychophysics and speech perception: basis of auditory psychophysics, sound masking and critical bands, psychoacoustic measuring methods, perception of masked and distorted speech, binaural perception, models of speech perception. Digital processing of speech signal: preprocessing of speech signal, autocorrelation and AMDF functions, Fo estimation, spectral and cepstral analysis, analysis by synthesis, LPC analysis and synthesis, autocorrelation and covariant methods. Speech coding and protection: wave coders (PCM, APCM, ADPCM, AP-PCM, delta-modulation), vocoders (channel, formant, cepstrum, LPC (LPC-10, RELP, multi-pulse LPC, CELP), vector quantization), combined systems (SBC, ATC, TDHS), coder quality, scrambler and cripto-protection. Speech quality enhancement and measurement: noise suppression, spectrum subtraction, Wiener filtering, maximum-likelihood estimation, multi-channel algorithms, impulse and periodic noise suppression, reverberation and echo suppression, correction of nonlinear distortion, speech quality measurement. Speech synthesis: basic principles, TTS systems, natural language processing - NLP, letter-sound conversion, prosody generation, synthesis by rule, concatenation-based synthesis, quality assessment of TTS. Techniques for speech recognition: pattern recognition, distance measures, dynamic programming (DTW), hidden Markov model (HMM), statistical speech and language models. Speech, language and speaker recognition: basic principles, word and key-word recognition, connected word recognition, language and speaker recognition, speaker identification and verification, auditory and linguistic recognition. Man-computer communication: model of man-computer communication, man-computer dialog, CTI systems and speech portals, speech-to-speech translation, speech understanding systems, audiovisual speech communication.


TE5OR Management IX: 3+1+0


Operating systems and operations management: the context of operational management, industrial organization, management science methodology, history of management science, organizational structure. Microeconomics: utility function, supply and demand function, production, revenue, profit, cost control, linear regression, econometric models. Forecasting: importance of forecasting, qualitative and quantitative methods, time series analysis. Planning: planning concepts, types of plan in organization, modeling of planning process, resource allocation, job scheduling, assignment problem, transportation problem, linear programming, simplex method, duality in linear programming, shadow prices. Decision analysis: structuring decision process, decision making in uncertainty, decision making under risk, investment analysis and decision, multicriteria decision making, decision support systems. Location of facilities: factors influencin location decision, the layout of facilities, material handling, minimizing transportation cost. Project management, project planning, Gannt charts, network diagrams, critical path method, PERT/time, PERT/cost. Inventory management: inventory cost, reviewing and replenishment policies, mathematical models in inventory control, just in time production and inventory system. Quality assurance and maintenance: total quality control, classical statistical methods, quality standards, reliability and maintainability, maintenance systems, renewal models. Information technology and trends in management.


Recommended textbooks:

1. Joseph Martinich, Production and Operations Management : An Applied Modern Approach; John Wiley & Sons; (1996) 944 pages

2. Richard J. Tersine, Production / Operations Management: Concepts,

Structure, and Analysis, Second Edition, North Holland, 1985, 752pages

3. Joseph G. Monks, Operations Management Theory And Practice, Second edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1985, 728+48 pages

4. Ray Wild, Production And Operations Management, Fourth Edition, Cassel, London , 1989, 792 pages.


TE5OUS Optoelectronic devices and systems IX: 3+1+1




TE5PDT Digital telephone exchange design IX: 3+1+1


Introduction. Digital telephone exchange – block diagram and functions. Organization of hardware and software modules. Subscriber access block: Project of analog subscriber board; Project of ISDN subscriber board; Project of analog control board; Project of digital concentrator; module for generating and receiving tone signals). Central block (Project of oscilator board; Project of switching network, Project of interface module); Project of digital trunking block. Project of signalization No.7 subsystem; Project of administration block.


TE5PRT Reliability and availability in telecommunication systems IX: 3+1+0


Theory of reliability, historical development and significance. Elementary reliability indexes of system components, devices and systems. Failure categories. Elementary distribution laws of time failure and time between failure. Determination of distribution laws and number of reliability characteristic based on statistical dates.

Reliability and availability determination of time independent systems. Reliability in case serial, parallel and mixed reliability blocks configurations. Reliability in case r from n accurate system components, and in case of alert. Reliability in case system with multistationary system components. System reliability in case threestationary system components. Reliability in case dependent failure.

System effectivity. Effectivity elements. Operation availability, mission reliability and functional capability. Effectivity parameters.

System calculation of reliability and availability with Markov’s theory. Prediction and analyze device reliability based on system components reliability. Planning and regulation reliability increase. System reports, analyses and repair action in failure case.

Reliability in device construction process; construction concentration based on reliability. Reliability allocation. Reliability, availability and system maintenance.

Telecommunication system failure analysing and practical examples.

Reliability and availability as logistical elements.


TE5RS Radar systems IX: 3+1+1


1.MULTISENSOR SYSTEMS

1.1.Distributed detection in multisensor system

1.2.Multiple targets tracking in multiple sensor system

1.3.Data fusion principles

2.STRUCTURE OF MODERN RADAR SYSTEMS

2.1.Radar receivers

2.1.1.Digital radar receivers

2.2.Radar transmitters

2.2.1.Solid state modulators and exciters

2.2.2.Output stages of the transmitters (magnetron, klystron and solid state types)

3.AUTOMATIC DETECTION

3.1.CA-CFAR detectors

3.2.GO-CFAR and SO-CFAR detectors

3.3.WEIBUL and LOG-NORMAL CFAR detectors

4.AUTOMATED RADAR TARGET TRACKING

4.1.Conical scan radar systems

4.2.Monopulse tracking method

4.3.Track while scan principles

5.AIRBORNE MULTIFUNCTION RADARS

5.1.Target detection and ranging

5.2.Data extraction and frequency domain processing

5.3.Air to air modes of operation

5.4.High resolution ground mapping

6.SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS (SAR)

6.1.SAR resolution

6.2.SAR radar signal processing (pulse compression techniques)

6.3.SAR radar application

6.4.Two dimensional correlation in SAR radar signal processing

7.WEATHER RADARS

7.1.Weather radar signals

7.2.Weather radar equation

7.3.Spectrum analysis of weather radar signals

7.4.Weather radar signal processing

7.4.1.Signal power estimation

7.4.2.Doppler frequency estimation

7.4.3.Frequency band estimation

7.5.Dual polarization weather radar signals processing


TE5SS Satelite systems IX: 3+1+1


1. Systems Considerations: Evolution of Satellite Technology and Applications. Satellite Network Fundamentals. Satellite Application Types. Television and Video Services. Trends in Satellite Voice Communications. Data Communications. Mobile and Personal Communications. Satellite Links and Access Methods. Design of the Satellite Link. Basics of Microwave Link Engineering. Definition of the Power Balance and Path Loss. Additional Link Attenuation Factors. Rain Attenuation. Link Budgets. Downlink Budget. Uplink Budget. Overall Link. Additional Sources of Noise and Interference. Multiple Access Systems. Frequency Division Multiple Access.

Time Division Multiple Access and ALOHA. Code Division Multiple Access. Frequency Band Tradeoffs-L, S, C, X, Ku, and Ka.

2. Television Distribution and Broadcasting :Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) Standard. Direct-to-Home TV Broadcasting by Satellite. Transmission Format-Analog (FM) or Digital (QPSK).

3. Telephone and Data Communications: Data Communication and Very Small Aperture Terminal Networks. Interactive Data Networks. VSAT Star Networks. Integrator of PCs, Local Area Networks, and Interacts. VSAT Access Protocols. Hub Implementations. Advanced VSAT Networks and Technology. Fixed Telephony Satellite Networks. Demand Assignment SCPC Network Architecture. Mobile Satellite Service (GEO and non-GEO).

4. Modern Satellite Networks: Global PCS (Personal Communication Services). Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) . Interconnectivity with the ground cellular network and PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network). IRRIDIUM, INMARSAT M, GLOBALSTAR, TELEDESIC, ODYSSEY, ICO.

5. Coordination:The Purpose of Frequency Coordination. Rules for Satellite Operations. Power Flux Density Limits. International Frequency Coordination. The First Step in the Process. Frequency and Orbit Coordination. Terrestrial Coordination of Earth Stations.

6. References

(1) Bruce R. Elbert, "Ths Satellite Communication applications handbook",1997 Artech House, Inc, MA.

(2) [CIS-OSU] CIS Department at OSU, references on Satellite Communications ;

http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~jain/refs/sat_refs.htm

(3) [Berkeley] MobileSatellites ; http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~randy/Courses/CS294.S96/CS294-7.S96.html


TE5PE Applied electromagnetics IX: 3+1+1


MULTICONDUCTOR TRANSMISSION LINES. Primary matrix parameters. Telegraphers' equations. Modes. Transient response. Fast digital signal interconnects. Microwave passive circuits. NUMERICAL METHODS IN ELECTROMAGNETICS. Method of Moments. Electrostatic problems. Transmission lines. Antennas and scatterers. Finite differences. Finite elements. ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY. Basic concepts. Conductive and radiation coupling. Shielding and filtering. Testing and measurements.


TE5TV2 TV engineering 2 IX: 3+1+1




TE5PDS Digital systems design IX: 3+2+0


Digital system concept. Theory. Components. Technology. Algorithmic state machine (ASM). Architecture. Flow diagrams. Design methods. Bit, word, block level realizations. Programmable logic components (PLD). Structure coder/decoder (PAL, PLA, PLD). Cellular structures (Altera, Xilinx). Microcontrollers. Review. Characteristics. Applications. Resources. Extension of microcontroller resources. Networking of microcontrollers. Fuzzy design by microcontrollers. Examples of selected microcontrollers and its applications. Tools for programmable ICs. Low volume project realization.


TE5PES Electonic systems design IX: 1+2+3


This is a project-oriented course. Students, in teams, design electronic subsystems. The projects start with literature search, and continue with planing, technical design, simulation, printed circuit board design, implementation and testing. The end point is the demonstration of the project, accompanied with proper documentation. The lectures include: project planing, project implementation, technical design rules, printed circuit board design (including placement and routing, thermal problems, EMI/EMS, signal integrity, and simulation), testing, and documenting, with elements of technical writing.


TE5DOE Digital image processing IX: 3+1+1




TE5EE2 Power elctronics 2 IX: 3+1+1


1. Control of switching converters, models for continuous and discontinuous conduction mode.

2. Current mode control, subharmonic instability problem and remedies.

3. Fundamentals of resonant converters (switching losses, zero-voltage and zero-current switching, series and parallel resonant converters).

4. Sinusoidal approximation in the analysis of resonant converters.

5. Analytical solution of resonant converters in the phase-plane (general approach, normalization of state-space variables, response of second-order circuits in the phase plane).

6. Phase-plane analysis of the series resonant converter, operating modes.

7. Phase-plane analysis of the parallel resonant converter, operating modes, comparison to the series resonant converter.

8. Quasi-resonant converters, phase-plane analysis, application area.

9. High power factor rectifiers.

10. Control of resonant converters.

11. Computer simulation of switching converters (application of simulation, general-purpose simulation tools, convergence problems, specialized simulation tools).


Textbooks:


[1] N. Mohan, T. Undeland, W. Robbins: Power Electronics: Converters, Applications and Design, John Wiley & Sons, 3rd edition, 2002.

[2] J. Kassakian, M. Schlecht, G. Verghese: Principles of Power Electronics, Addison Wesley, 1991.

[3] R. W. Erickson, D. Maksimović: Fundamentals of Power Electronics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2nd edition, 2001.


TE5MUE Mikroprocessor control in electromotor drives IX: 3+1+1


Review of digital implementations of discrete time controllers; Von Neuman - based, DSP-based and FPGA-based digital controllers and their specific characteristics as used in power converters and electrical drives (PCED).

Input and output peripherals: Measured quantities and feedback devices in PCED; current, shaft speed and position, flux and torque, pressure and temperature. Typical actuators; SCR converters, H-bridge, 3-phase inverters, space vector modulation, basics on AC/AC converter control. Noise and resolution aspects of A/D and R/D conversion, anti-aliasing analog filters and digital postfiltering, resolution increase by oversampling based on the PWM noise.

Specific properties of on-board-peripherals digital drive controller and off-chip peripheral solutions.

Digital implementation of PCED-control algorithms: Electromechanical and AC/DC power conversion sections of electrical drives; communication and the signal flow between the power and the control sections. Digitally controlled power converter as the driving force of a controlled electrical drive. Discrete time implementation of the field orientation concept in alternating current machines. Influence of magnetic saturation, nonlinearities, parasitic effects and the parameter uncertainty on the drive performance. Stator current controllers in AC drives: analog-based, hybrid and full-digital solutions. Torque control in AC induction motor drives. Digitally controlled AC motors as the servo actuators in machine tool, industrial manipulator and robotics applications. Electromagnetic resolvers, incremental and absolute encoders. Control structures dedicated to synchronous permanent magnet servo motors. Basic implementations of sensorless drives.

Laboratory for microprocessor control of electrical drives and power converters is available for experimental work.


TE5PIK IC design IX: 3+1+0


HDL languages: introduction to VHDL (Verilog), behavioral and structural model, basic constructions in HDL languages. Complex system design, specification of microarchitecture, coding style. Test plan, testbench. Simulation and verification: functional simulation at behavioral and RT level, gate-level and transistor-level simulation. Timing analysis, critical path, wire-load model. Postlayout simulation. Design verification: electrical, timing and formal verification. Logic synthesis: translation, logic optimization, technology decomposition and mapping. Two-level and multilevel logic optimization, binary decision diagrams. Trends in synthesis. Synopsys - the synthesis tool. High performance circuits design: latches and flip-flops, arithmetic building blocks (adders and multipliers). New clocking schemes. Low power integrated circuits design: technology trends, layout design techniques, power supply voltage scaling. Architectural approaches to low power, limited-swing and clock-gating techniques. Adiabatic logic gates.


TE5EMI Electonical measurements and instrumentation IX: 0+0+0


Introduction to advanced measurement and data acquisition systems. Computerized instrumentation. Hierarchical organization of system interconnections. Interfacing sensors. Interfacing techniques and circuits. Personal computer in data acquisition.

Architecture of personal computer. System board and advanced system board chipsets. Memory and IO ports. Interrupts. Direct memory access. PC buses. ISA bus. PCI bus.

Interfacing to the PC bus. Buffering of PC bus and decoding of IO addresses. Hardware design and programming of PC compatible acquisition card. Analog input card design. Analog output card design. Parallel IO port design. Interfacing of timing IO signals.

Interfacing over standard communication interfaces. The IEEE-488 (GPIB) instrumentation bus. Serial RS-232 interface. RS-422 and RS-485 buses. Universal serial bus USB.

Virtual instrumentation. Standard architecture for virtual instrumentation. Software for virtual instrumentation. Graphical user interface. Graphical programming. Programming tools for development of virtual instrumentations.

Distributed measurement and control systems and industrial communications. Intelligent sensors. Architecture and design of intelligent sensors. Communications protocols and industrial communication networks. Data acquisition and control based on Internet.


TE5PRV Real-time programming IX: 3+1+1


Introduction to Object-oriented programming in C++: Basic Concepts of OOP, Consepts of C++ Inherited from C, Non-OO Elements of C++, Classes, Operator Overloading, Inheritance and Polymorphism, Efficient Implementations of Data Structures for RT Programming. Introduction to RT Systems: Definitions, Classification, Terminology, Examples. Reliability and Fault Tolerance: Reliability, Fault Tolerance, Forward and Backward Error Recovery, Exceptions and Exception Handling. Introduction to Concurrent Programming: Concurrency and Processes, Shared Variable Synchronization and Communication, Message-Based Synchronization and Communication, Resource Control. Real-Time: Real-Time Clock, Elapsed Time, Timeout Controls, Timing Requirements Specification and Control. Schedulability and Scheduling: Terminology, Basic Scheduling Strategies (FPS & EDF, DMPO & RMPO), Schedulability Tests, Blocking and Priority Inversion Avoidance (ICPP). RT Systems Design: Timing Requirements, Real-Time Profile of UML. Implementations, languages, and tools covered by the course: A complete implementation of a multithreaded kernel in C++, concepts from Ada and RT Java, RT profile of UML, Rational Rose for Real-Time.


TE5UP Process control IX: 3+2+0




TE5AS Adaptive systems IX: 1+3+1




TE5BI Biomedical engineering IX: 3+1+1


Basics of medical instrumentation. Electrical activity of excitable cells. Biopotential electrodes. Electrodes. Biopotential amplifiers. Analogue processing of biopotentials. Sensors in biomedical measurements. Functional organization of the central and peripheral nervous system: EEG and ENG recordings. Principles of the blood circulation and properties of the heart muscle. ECG, blood pressure monitoring, measurements of the blood flow. Principles of the gas exchange, measurements of the volume of lungs and respiration functions. Organization of movements, the role of muscles, tendons and skeleton. EMG, electrical stimulation of muscles, electronic and magnetic stimulators. Therapeutic and prosthetic devices, cardiac pacemaker, defibrilators, lithotripsy, and laser surgery. Ultrasound in medicine: ultrasound tomography, cardiosonography, and measurments of the blood flow using Doppler ultrasound. Principles of medical imaging: X-rays, computer tomography, ANGER camera, SPECT, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Positron Emission Tomography (PET), termography.


TE5PO Pattern recognition IX: 3+1+1


Statistical pattern recognition:

Hypothesis testing methods, Bayes classificator, Minimum cost classification, Neuman-Pearson test, min-max test, sequential testing. Parametric clasification, linear classificator, quadratic clasificator. Nonparametric classification, nearest neighbours methods. Reduction dimensions methods, Karhunen-Loeve expansion. Unsupervised classification, clustering, , c-mean method, quadratic decomposition, maximum likelihood approach, branch and bound method.


Soft computing in pattern recognition:

Introduction to fuzzy logic, membership functions, fuzzy relations. Fuzzy classification, unsupervised fuzzy classification, fuzzy c-mean method. Introduction to neural networks, perceptron, different structures of artificial neural networks, feed-forward networks, reccurent networks, networks training for classification.


TE5VIN Al and neural networks IX: 3+1+1




TE5MPS CAD and Simulation in telecommunication IX: 3+1+0


Principles and engineering approach to CAD and simulation in telecommunications.


Computer aided design (CAD). Computer simulation and modeling.

Specific numerical and statistical algorithms for engineering applications. Existing numerical and statistical computer libraries and computer packages.

Modeling of telecommunication elements, circuits, subsystems, radio channels, transmitters and receivers in fixed and mobile radio, radar and radio navigation systems. Networks modeling.

Basis band and RF frequency circuit CAD. Computer simulation in time and frequency domain. Conversion between time and frequency.

Programs for configuration, execution, post processing and presentation. Model libraries.

Optimization. Experimental verification.

Data acquisition, processing and control.

CAD, CAE and CASE tools.

"Real life" computer packages in communications, radar, EW and networks.


Homeworks. Computer Labs. Projects.

Textbooks:

  1. M.C.Jeruchim, P.Balaban, K.S.Shanmugan, Simulation of Communicacation Systems, 2nd ed., Kluwer, 2000.

  2. J.Ogrodzki, Circuit Simulation Methods and Algorithms, CRC Press, 1996.

  3. Additional excerpts from several books, lecture notes.