T305 Digital Communications
Being presented for the last time in 2008, as some of the
content is now slightly dated, this was a rather heavy going
look at Digital Comms, from TCP/IP, via probability of failure, Synchronous Digital
Hierarchy, modulation schemes, network management, sinusoidal
waveforms, Fourier Transforms to fibre optics.
As the course notes state, a good grounding in maths is very
helpful and the course work was relentless; 7 TMA & 6 CMA's,
followed by a final exam, well this is a Level 3 60point
course...
A lot of the technical content was taught through various
modelling activities, a full breakdown of the course content is
as follows:
Block 1
Part 1: Communication Network Architectures
Part 2: Communication Network Protocols
Block 1 Modelling Activities:
Representing Systems
Block 2
Part 1: Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
Part 2: Network Management
Block 2 Modelling Activities: Probability and Reliability
Block 3
Message Coding
Block 3 Modelling Activities Part 1: Sinusoids and Fourier
Series
Part 2: Information Theory
Block 4
Part 1: Routeing and Switching
Part 2: Signalling
Block 4 Modelling Activities: Traffic
Block 5
Part 1: Channel Coding
Part 2: Modulation
Block 5 Modelling Activities: Pulses and Systems
Block 6
Part 1: Optical-fibre Communications
Part 2: Multi-service Networks
Block 6 Modelling Activities: Signal Impairments
This course was hard work, but well worth the effort.
The final exam is made up of two parts; 8 short answer questions
taken from any of the 6 blocks (you must answer all 8
questions); and 6 long answer questions, with each question
being on of of the blocks. You must answer 3 of these questions.
To be replaced by T324 Keeping ahead in ICT, which is being
presented for the first time in 2007 (and interestingly is NOT an excluded
combination with T305), and in 2008 by T325, which I understand will look at
Digital Media (and probably will be an excluded combination with
T305). Both
T324 & T325 are 30 point courses.
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