Students must refer to the Registrar's web site or the Graduate School of Engineering's web site to determine the courses that are offered in any given semester.

TSM G310 Fundamentals of Communication Systems (4SH)
Explores the underlying physical layer technologies used in the telecommunications industry. Topics include signal types and characteristics (voice, video), spectral analysis, speech and video compression, sampling, codecs, and framing. Examines transmission issues such as the concept of a channel, noise, SNR, Shannon 's law, Nyquist limit, crosstalk, and echo. Discusses analog and digital modulation, digital carrier, and the characteristics of channels, such as twisted pair, coax, terrestrial radio, and satellite. Introduces error correction and detection codes. Covers line coding, synchronization, relationship between BER, SNR, and link length, power budgets, multiplexing (FDM, TDM, WDM, DWDM), echo cancellation, digital speech interpolation, and photonic communications, with an overview of optics, sources, couplers, and amplifiers. Discusses radio transmission and propagation, multipath fading, antennas, and spectrum issues. Also examines cellular systems, handoff, and microwave and satellite transmissions. Prerequisite: Knowledge of Probability required.

TSM G320 Telecommunications Architecture & Systems (4SH)
Provides an understanding of the telecommunications network today, focusing on its architecture, network systems, and overlays. Addresses the evolution of the network to packet technologies. Topics include PSTN architecture, facilities network, and access plant; call processing; and wireline access using ISDN, xDSL, cable modems, and fixed wireless. Covers transmission technologies including FDM and TDM hierarchies, SONET/SDH and network synchronization, and switching technologies, including the evolution from crossbar to packet and optical, and facility switching. Examines in/out-of-band signaling DTMF, SS7/CCS architectures and protocols, especially ISUP and TCAP. Covers network and service management and provisioning, billing, vertical services, intelligent networks, AIN call model, local number portability, service creation, private networks, traffic engineering, numbering, and routing. Discusses cellular/PCS networks including mobility management, signaling and roaming, along with an overview of analog, TDMA, CDMA, GSM, and third generation technologies. Also introduces issues in network migration such as voice-over-packet, gateways, and softswitches.

TSM G330 Data Networking (4SH)
Provides the basics of data networking protocols and architectures in a relatively nonquantitative manner. Topics include layered architectures, the Internet, and OSI model; local and wide area networks and network topologies; transport protocols including TCP, UDP, and RTP; data link protocols, encoding, framing, PPP, and error control; statistical multiplexing; queuing; Little's law; medium access protocols including Ethernet, token ring, FDDI, and 802.11; packet switching and datagrams, virtual circuits, bridges, and ATM switching; internetworking, interdomain and intradomain routing algorithms, naming and addressing, and IPv6; application protocols such as ftp and http; congestion and flow control in the Internet and ATM networks; quality of service issues; network security, cryptography protocols, protocols for security services, and firewalls; and network management protocols.

TSM G340 Telecommunications Public Policy and Business Management (4SH)
Introduces students to business management issues, such as basic accounting, finance, marketing, and operations in the telecommunications field, and also topics such as the time value of money and decision making. Also includes issues of human relations, organizational behavior, and business strategy. Provides an understanding of the regulatory environment of the telecommunications industry. Topics include universal service, service quality tariffs, the Modified Final Judgment and Telecom Act of 1996, market restrictions and segmentation, the current competitive environment in the United States and internationally, interconnection including unbundling, collocation, economic issues, and global trends in market reform.

TSM G350 IP Telephony (4SH)
Provides a comprehensive overview of IP telephony architectures and protocols, with emphasis on SIP, the Session Initiation Protocol. Topics include a review of classical circuit-switched telephony, especially signaling; a review of IP networking, especially routing and addressing; peer and master-slave protocols for IP telephony (SIP, H.323, MGCP); speech coding; the transport of real-time traffic over IP (RTP and RTCP); bandwidth control; and issues in network quality of service, such as traffic modeling, dimensioning, and QoS mechanisms. Emphasis on SIP includes call flows, network components, security, routing, and advanced services. Prerequisites: TSM G320 and TSM G330.

TSM G360 Operation Support Systems in Telecommunications (4SH)
Introduces Operation Support Systems (OSS) in telecommunications: their purpose, components, processes and architectures. Course covers OSS that support service and network provisioning, customer care, ordering, billing, network management among other support functions, as well as the Telecommunication Management Network (TMN) architecture and network management protocols. The course addresses the role of vendors in providing OSS, and the range of services offered, including wireline voice and data, DSL, FTTP, wireless and mobile services, and video, cable and integrated services. Seeks to provide an understanding of how the Internet is changing OSS interconnections models and how the regulatory environment impacts OSS interconnections and architecture. Other topics include the impact of new services on OSS, new software technologies such as Web services, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Work Flow. Finally, the course introduces trends in next generation OSS and OSS architectures. Prerequisite: TSM G330.

TSM G370 Perspectives in Telecommunications Policy (4SH)
Course examines the interrelationship of technological change, business objectives, and governmental policy goals on outcomes in telecommunications markets. By examining perspectives and cases from various nations, students will have an opportunity to become familiar with public and private institutions, as well as other interest groups, that shape the agenda and outcomes of telecommunications policy in various countries. Significant emphasis is placed on changing regulatory approaches, such as the increased reliance on network unbundling, and the impact of technological changes on market forces and policy decisions. Course examines how national policy objectives are formulated and issues associated with broadband deployment. Course also evaluates policies designed to introduce competition into monopoly markets, the impact of Internet and wireless technologies on policy and markets, and emerging policy issues associated with network neutrality and Internet governance. Prerequisite: TSM G340, or permission of program director.

TSM G371 Special Topics (1SH)
Covers state-of-the-art material of current interest. Prerequisite: Permission of faculty adviser.

TSM G372 Special Topics (2SH)
Covers state-of-the-art material of current interest. Prerequisite: Permission of faculty adviser.

TSM G373 Special Topics (3SH)
Covers state-of-the-art material of current interest. Prerequisite: Permission of faculty adviser.

TSM G374 Special Topics (4SH)
Covers state-of-the-art material of current interest. Prerequisite: Permission of faculty adviser.

TSM G380 Consulting Project in Telecommunications (4SH)
Provides an opportunity to work on a consulting project with management from telecommunications companies and other companies with project needs relating to telecommunications. Consulting projects depend on the needs of the client firms, but usually include technology and business issues. Projects may include: assessing market, regulatory, and technology challenges involved in the implementation of broadband services; evaluating the impact of technology changes on specific market segments; researching needs for new functionality in telecommunications billing and operation support systems; valuing intellectual property in telecommunications companies and related industries; researching technological and business trends in the global telecommunications market. Students have an opportunity to work in teams and are guided by a faculty advisor. Primary course deliverable is a presentation and report for the client company. Students also have an opportunity to develop teamwork, project management, and communications skills. Prerequisite: TSM G340 or permission of program director.

TSM G401 Independent Study (1SH)
Offers work performed under individual faculty supervision. Prerequisite: Permission of faculty adviser.

TSM G402 Independent Study (2SH)
Offers work performed under individual faculty supervision. Prerequisite: Permission of faculty adviser.

TSM G403 Independent Study (3SH)
Offers work performed under individual faculty supervision. Prerequisite: Permission of faculty adviser.

TSM G404 Independent Study (4SH)
Offers work performed under individual faculty supervision. Prerequisite: Permission of faculty adviser.