Telecommunications
TLEN 5010-3. Network Economics and Finance I. Examines economics as the social science discipline that examines how agents allocate scarce resources under conditions of uncertainty. Introduces a range of microeconomic principles and models used to undertake economic and financial analysis of telecommunications networks. Prereq., graduate standing.
TLEN 5020-3. Economics of Competition Policy in Network Industries. Develops methods to evaluate investments to account for uncertainty and dynamics. Examines approaches such as real options methodology, useful in a wide variety of applications including stock and project valuations, capital budgeting, and strategic planning. Prereq., TLEN 5010 or instructor consent.
TLEN 5050-3. Leadership and Management. Prereqs., TLEN 5010 or instructor consent. One year work experience is required. Same as EMEN 5050.
TLEN 5106-3. International Telecommunications. Institutions that affect the use of telecommunications are introduced, including various parts of the federal government such as the Department of Commerce, the FCC, and the Department of State. The major thrust of the seminar, however, is the role of international institutions, including the ITU, various satellite organizations, and the World Trade Organization. Prereq., TLEN 5010.
TLEN 5130-3. Telecommunications Business Strategy. Covers concepts, strategies, and practical implementation of market oriented business strategy in the telecom industry grounded with real world examples. Topics include positioning, segmentation/ targeting, technology adoption, advertising/outreach, communication strategies, product management, sales process and business intelligence. Prereq., TLEN 5010.
TLEN 5140-3. IT and Business Strategy. Although some companies are very successful in discovering and cultivating innovative technology-enabled business strategies, many fail in the process. Combines theories and frameworks with practical approaches to provide students with the skills required to help companies identify business opportunities, find appropriate information related technologies, and lead adoption efforts to success. Prereq., TLEN 5010. Same as OPIM 4040/5040 and MGMT 4090.
TLEN 5190-3. Standardization and Standards Wars. Examines current issues and strategy in the standardization of telecommunications and information technologies. Covers topics on the importance of standards, government and private sector perspectives, and impact of information age technologies on standards development. Introduces students to relevance of antitrust and intellectual property law to the topic.
TLEN 5210-2. Principles of Telecommunications Policy. Learn the key issues and principles that guide the decisions of policymakers with respect to the regulatory treatment of voice, video, and data communications. Engage in critical debate, and develop instincts for anticipating the likely regulatory models that may be applied to new technologies. This introductory course covers technical, economic, legal, political, and institutional considerations. Prereq., TLEN 5010.
TLEN 5230-3. Topics in Telecommunications Policy. Provides an understanding of how telecommunications policy is developed both internationally and domestically and the framework to analyze the major policy issues in the field. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.
TLEN 5240-3. Law and Regulation. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Same as LAWS 7241.
TLEN 5260-3. Seminar: Law and Economics of the Information Age. Examines basic regulatory and legal challenges of our information economy and digital age. Emphasizes the “networked” information industries, the proper role of “unbundling” policies to advance competition, and how intellectual property and antitrust rules should be developed. Prereq., TLEN 5240 or instructor consent required. Same as LAWS 8341.
TLEN 5300 (1-3). Telecommunications Theory and Applications. Examines the mathematical and physical theory of telecommunications. Deals with the fundamental concepts related to a wide range of topics including physical units, numbering systems, trigonometric functions, logarithms, indices, decibels, complex numbers, calculus, elementary probability, and power circuit analysis. May be repeated up to 3 credit hours.
TLEN 5310-3. Telecommunications Systems. Reviews fundamental technical concepts and terminology in telecommunications. Topics of focus include: decibels, noise analysis, transmission lines, electronic signals, radio spectrum characteristics, link budgets, AM modulation, angle modulation, digital modulation, multiplexing, sampling and digital encoding, detection, and similar physical layer concepts. Systems for analysis include CATV, cellular, wireless, WLAN satellite systems, internet networking, and related voice and data networks. Prereq., TLEN 5300, or equivalent with instructor consent.
TLEN 5330-3. Data Communications 1. Provides a comprehensive technical survey of data and computer communications including Wireless, MAN, and WAN systems and standards. Covers interfaced, network timing and synchronization, wired and wireless LAN technologies including all aspects of Ethernet, IEEE 802 LANs, packet switching, routing, and internet design. Prereq. or coreq., TLEN 5310.
TLEN 5340-3. VOIP Network Design. Focuses on VOIP network design and optimization. The emphasis is on the convergence of VOIP, PSTN and cell phone networks and signaling. Topics include voice processing as well as IP and SS7 signaling. In addition there will be a review of ISDN, DSL, SONET, ATM, SIP and MPLS. There will be a case problem for sizing a VOIP network using silence suppression. Prereq., TLEN 5310.
TLEN 5350-3. Satellite Communication Systems. Aimed at a high level fundamental understanding of broadcasting, communication and navigation satellite systems. Topics include orbital mechanics, orbit selection, spacecraft subsystems, spacecraft and earth station configurations, propagation issues, link budgets, modulation and multiplexing techniques, multiple access schemes (FDMA, TDMA, CDMA), error control coding, satellite network architecture, and economic, regulatory and business issues in GEO, MEO, and LEO systems. Prereq., TLEN 5330.
TLEN 5370-3. IP Routing Protocols. Breaks IP routing technologies into two fundamental pieces: an in-depth study of interior and then exterior gateway protocols. Prereq., TLEN 5330.
TLEN 5390-3. Applied Java Programming. Provides a comprehensive overview of basic programming concepts, the Java programming language using an object-oriented approach, and the software development life cycle for students with little to no previous programming experience.
TLEN 5410-3. Network Management and Operations. Offers students a hands-on experience programatically managing network hardware and essential network services such as DHCP, DNS, ARP, FTP, Telnet, HTTP, SSH, SMTP, TFTP, and SNMP through the use of cross-platform scripting. Students with little or no programming experience will learn scripting by replicating functionality provided in common management suites such as HP OpenView, Nagios, Zennos, IBM Netview and others.
TLEN 5430-3. Data Communications 2. Provides a detailed technical study of Internet and Internet-related protocols following a top-down approach through the protocol stack. Bit-level analysis of a large number of Internet and Internet-related protocols, including the study of classic protocol suite principles. Covers real time and near real-time data streaming, IP mobility, IPv6, and an introduction to Internet security. Prereq., TLEN 5310, 5330 or instructor consent.
TLEN 5440-3. Multimedia Networking. Covers the co-evolution of traditional multimedia services (such as telephony and television) and traditional data services onto a common network infrastructure: representation and compression for speech, audio, images, and video; media transport using Real time Transport Protocol (RTP); quality of service. Prereq., CSCI 4273/5273 or TLEN 5330.
TLEN 5460-3. Telecommunication Systems Laboratory. Provides direct experience with telecommunications functions and equipment through experiments and demonstrations. Student teams learn the fundamental techniques of signal transmission and impairment measurement, voice and data switching, and systems administration, and the fundamental functions of data networking and services. Each experiment is designed to focus on some particular aspect of system management, development, or maintenance for either enterprise telecommunications customers or telecommunication service providers. Procedures require the use of actual commercial equipment, services, observation, reporting of behavior, and performance, compared to specified requirements. Student teams and laboratory periods for the semester are established during the first class lecture meeting. Prereqs., TLEN 5310 and 5330. Credit not granted for this course and CSCI 4123.
TLEN 5462-3. Advanced Telecommunications Lab. Presents advanced networking techniques through experiments with network measurement equipment, switches, routers, and management interfaces. Each experiment focuses on some particular aspect of system management, development, or maintenance. Procedures require the use of actual commercial equipment, services, observation, reporting of behavior, and performance, compared to specified requirements. Prereq., TLEN 5460.
TLEN 5470-3. Signaling Protocols. Signaling in this context is the exchange of information associated with the establishment and control of a connection. Students will gain an understanding of modern signaling protocols and differences among these protocols. Students will gain an appreciation of actually implementing signaling protocols in the Internet Protocol environment. Prereqs., TLEN 5330 and C/C++. Recommended prereq., Java programming.
TLEN 5480-3. Introduction to Optical Fiber Communications. Provides the student with a description of optical fibers, lasers, and detectors at a level that allows them to analyze and design optical fiber communication systems. Prereq., TLEN 5310. Same as ECEN 4116.
TLEN 5485-2. Optical Circuits Laboratory. 2-credit hour senior level lab. Experiments cover analog and digital information transmission on free space and guided wave optical carriers. Automated data acquisition and computer analysis of data are used to investigate transmission efficacy. Same as ECEN 4696.
TLEN 5490-3. Network Programming. Exposes students to UNIX/Linux systems and network programming with an emphasis on practical programming problems and experience. Covers the unique challenges of programming distributed systems including resolving synchronization, threads, pipes, sockets, and other constructs for building TCP/IP network servers and clients.
TLEN 5510-3. Wireless and Cellular Communications. Presents in detail the technologies and architectures employed in cellular and other modern wireless systems and discusses regulatory and other industry issues. Major topics include radio technology, multiple access techniques, analog and digital cellular telephony, and personal communications systems. Prereq., TLEN 5310 or instructor consent.
TLEN 5520-3. Wireless Local Area Networks. Examines small-scale wireless networks particularly personal and local area networks. Covers licensed and unlicensed spectrum, indoor and small-scale radio propagation, modulation techniques, network topologies, ad hoc and infrastructure networks, protocol design, TCP/IP-wireless interactions, and protocol standards. Prereq., TLEN 5330. Recommended prereq., TLEN 5430.
TLEN 5530-3. Applied Network Security. Examines the critical aspects of network security. A technical discussion of threats, vulnerabilities, detection, and prevention is presented. Issues addressed are cryptography, firewalls, network protocols, intrusion detection, security architecture, security policy, forensic investigation, privacy, and the law. Prereq., TLEN 5330.
TLEN 6321-3. Computer Crime. Explores the legal issues that judges, legislators, prosecutors, and defense attorneys are confronting as they respond to the recent explosion in computer-related crime. Includes the Fourth Amendment in cyberspace, the law of electronic surveillance, computer hacking and other computer crimes, encryption, online economic espionage, cyberterrorism, First Amendment in cyberspace, federal/state relations in the enforcement of computer crime laws, and civil liberties online. Same as LAWS 6321.
TLEN 5540-3. Network Security Laboratory. Applies what students have learned in computer and network security foundations in a simulated network environment. Topics to be covered include: system hardening, firewalls, intrusion detection, vulnerability assessment, and investigation. Prereqs., TLEN 5530. Recommended prereq., operating system experience. Credit not granted for this course and CSCI 4133.
TLEN 5550-3. Computer and Network Security. Studies methods to protect information, and the ability to process and move information, from theft, misuse, tampering, destruction, and unauthorized access. Introduces foundational topics of computer and network security, including security models, cryptography, and authentication protocols. Prereqs., significant experience in coding (C or C++); some experience in networks; familiarity with TCP/IP, UDP, and ICMP. Recommended prereq., CSCI 5273. Same as CSCI 6268.
TLEN 5560-3. Wireless Systems Laboratory. Serves as hands-on exploration of wireless communication systems. The course is designed to complement TLEN 5510 and TLEN 5520 by taking several subjects to greater depth. Students will work with and in some cases build radio frequency test equipment, transmitters, receivers, antennas, and wireless communication systems. Coreq., TLEN 5510 or 5520.
TLEN 5570-3. IP Network Design. Implement fundamentals of IP Routing Protocols and apply them directly to design based networking problems. Design scenarios will incorporate physical and logical design, financial analysis, and laboratory configuration. Prereq., TLEN 5370.
TLEN 5600-1. Telecommunications Seminar. Provides a series of weekly lectures with questions and discussion. Many of the speakers are nationally known experts in telecommunications. Fall and spring seminars are for 1 credit hour each, and attendance is required.
TLEN 5700-1. Capstone 1. Develop basic concepts and methods for pursuing quantitative and qualitative research. Capstone teams will be formed and students will begin work on research projects that will be completed in TLEN 5710 Capstone 2. Capstone 1 and 2 must be taken in sequential semesters. Enrollment requires 14 completed credit hours in ITP: 6-technical; 6-non-technical; 2-seminar. Writing skills test required.
TLEN 5710 (1-2). Capstone 2. Complete Capstone research project initiated in TLEN 5700 Capstone 1.
TLEN 5900-3. Research Techniques in Engineering Management. Same as EMEN 5900.
TLEN 5830 (1-6). SPECIAL TOPICS.
TLEN 5831-5839 (3). Special Topics.
TLEN 5920 (1-6). Independent Study.
TLEN 6940 (1-3). Candidate for Degree.
TLEN 6950-6. Master’s Thesis.
TLEN 6960-3. Telecommunications Project.
