• Course Code :
  CS221
• Level :
  Undergraduate
• Course Hours :
  3.00 Hours
• Department :
  Faculty of Computers and Information Technology

Instructor information :

Apply the basic concepts of data communications. Combine and evaluate different methods for data transmission. Analyze the requirements of guided and wireless communication and design a solution for these requirements. Compare and evaluate methodologies from range of techniques to implement signal encoding and digital data communication. Show a complete understanding of multiplexing such as frequency, time and statistical division multiplexing and enhances data link control for data error and data flow.

Data transmission concepts, Terminology and techniques, Types and sources of data, communication models, Standards. Data Transmission techniques, Transmission media and characteristics. Information theory, Information sources, Information measure, entropy, Source codes: return-to-zero and non-return-to-zero signaling, Analog and digital transmission, Optical fiber systems, Modems, modulation; Transmission impairments, Data encoding techniques, Multiplexing techniques.

Course outcomes:

a. Knowledge and Understanding:
	1- Describe fundamental concepts related to data transmission. 2- Identify the up to date techniques used in signal encoding and digital data communication. 3- Explain the types of channel multiplexing
b. Intellectual Skills:
	1- Analyze different problems in data communications 2- Propose a set of alternative solutions for error detection and correction, and flow control. 3- Compare and differentiate between methods used in channel multiplexing.
c. Professional and Practical Skills:
	1- Analyze different types of network transmission media. 2- Apply, design different techniques for signal encoding. 3- Acquire and manage different information about wireless transmission using scientific literature and web sources.
d. General and Transferable Skills:
	1- Work on a team to develop solutions for data transmission problems. 2- Apply communications skills in presentation and report writing for signal encoding techniques and channel multiplexing.

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