Foundations of communications and Internet
Course objectives
GENERAL The course provides an overview of the organization and main functions of a telecommunications system, dealing with both aspects of digital representation of information, signals (in continuous and discrete time) and operations on signals, as well as aspects of networks and related protocols. At the end of the course the student will have fundamental knowledge on the functioning of a telecommunications system, networks and the Internet. SPECIFIC • Knowledge and understanding: Know the concepts underlying digital signal processing, their transmission in current telecommunications networks, access and error control protocols and network and transport protocols based on the TPC/IP suite. • Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: being able to understand how operations on continuous and discrete time signals work, how a protocol works, which are its characterizing functions and how performance can be evaluated. Know how to carry out simple dimensioning of protocols at the various levels of a telecommunication architecture. • Making judgements: knowing how to analyze the benefits and limitations of signal processing and operations and dimensioning of protocols or TPC/IP network configurations. • Communication skills: knowing how to present the functionality of signal processing (correlation, sampling, analysis in the time or frequency domain) and how a network protocol works and discuss its performance. • Learning skills: In addition to the classic learning skills provided by the theoretical study of the teaching material, the way of teaching the course, in particular the exercises (also carried out on simulators and with processing software), stimulate the student towards procedural analysis and quantitative understanding of the functioning of a network and its protocols, facilitating the concrete application of the notions and techniques learned during the course.
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Program - Frequency - Exams
Course program
Prerequisites
Books
Teaching mode
Frequency
Exam mode
Bibliography
Lesson mode
Program - Frequency - Exams
Course program
Prerequisites
Books
Teaching mode
Frequency
Exam mode
Bibliography
Lesson mode
Program - Frequency - Exams
Course program
Prerequisites
Books
Teaching mode
Frequency
Exam mode
Bibliography
Lesson mode
Program - Frequency - Exams
Course program
Prerequisites
Books
Teaching mode
Frequency
Exam mode
Bibliography
Lesson mode
- Lesson code10607002
- Academic year2025/2026
- CourseComputer and Control Engineering
- CurriculumInformatica
- Year2nd year
- Semester1st semester
- SSDING-INF/03
- CFU9
- Subject areaIngegneria della sicurezza e protezione dell'informazione