M.Sc. in Cybersecurity
M.Sc. in Computer science and networking
M.Sc. in Telecommunications engineering
Past courses
Communication technologies @ 938II – Electronics and Communication Technologies
(M. Luise, G. Bacci – September-December 2024, 6 ECTS)
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- Outline of the course
- Basics of signals & systems: Fourier analysis, digital signals, digital systems (8 hours)
- Basics of digital communication systems (12 hours)
- Building blocks of transmitter and receiver
- Source and channel coding
- Modulation techniques and Shannon capacity
- Multiplexing and multiple access
- Basics of wireless channel modeling (4 hours)
- Basics of wireless propagation
- Multipath propagation
- Frequency-selectivity of the wireless channel
- Time-selectivity of the wireless channel
- Analysis of the main cellular systems and technologies (8 hours)
- Brief history of wireless communications
- Basic concepts: cells, frequency reuse and handover
- History of cellular communication standards
- 4G systems
- 5G systems
Fundamentals of digital communications @ 919II – Digital communications
(M. Luise, G. Bacci – September-December 2024, 6 ECTS)
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Please refer to Communication technologies @ 938II – Electronics and Communication Technologies for all the details and program of the course.
Communication systems @ 1014I – Communication systems and Cybersecurity
(G. Bacci – February-May 2025, 6 ECTS)
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- Class register
- Outline of the course
- A primer on digital communication systems (15 hours)
- Main building blocks
- Source coding; Encryption; Channel coding; Modulation; Multiplexing; Multiple access
- Multiplexing vs. multiple access
- Time/code division multiplexing; Frequency/time/code division multiple access; Packet-oriented multiple access; Efficiency comparison across multiplexing and multiple access techniques
- Main building blocks
- Basics of wireless communications (5 hours)
- Brief history of wireless communications
- Channel modeling
- Basics of wireless propagation; Large- and small-scale fading; Multipath propagation: Frequency and time selectivity; Hands-on channel modeling with Matlab
- Main cellular standards (30 hours)
- Basic concepts
- History of cellular communication standards; Basic definitions; Planning of a cellular network
- 3G systems
- Introduction to 3G systems; The UMTS standard; UTRA-FDD: Spreading, scrambling, frame structure and modulation; UTRA-TDD: Spreading, scrambling, frame structure and modulation; Power control, handover and macro-diversity; UMTS evolutions
- 4G systems
- Introduction to 4G systems; Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); OFDM-based multiple-access schemes; The LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) standard; Resource allocation in LTE-A; Network management and inter-operability in LTE-A; Highlights of IEEE 802.16m; Enabling technologies for 4G standards
- 5G systems
- Introduction to 5G systems; Network densification; mm-wave technology; Massive MIMO; Cognitive radio and spectrum sensing; The 5G NR standard
- Basic concepts
- Fiber-based technologies (10 hours)
- Transport-network technologies
- Introduction to optical fiber technologies; Naive architecture of a fiber-optical link; direct detection on-off keying (DD-OOK); Multi-mode step-index (MM-SI) and multi-mode graded-index (MM-GI) fibers; Chromatic and intra-modal dispersion; Fiber attenuation
- Access-network technologies
- Introduction to passive optical networks (PONs); Architectures for access networks: ADSL, FTTC, FTTB; FTTH; Definition of key elements in a PON: point of presence (POP), optical splitter, primary flexibility point (PFP), secondary flexibility point (SFP); Fault detection and fault restoration in fiber-based terrestrial and underwater networks
- Transport-network technologies
Past courses
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