Master of Technology in Wireless and Optical Communications

Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering

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Subject Code Course Title Credit
Total (L T P)
Semester 1 (Core Courses)
ECT661 Advanced Digital Communication Systems 3 (3-0-0)
ECT663 Advanced Error Control Codes 3 (3-0-0)
ECT665 Wireless Communications 3 (3-0-0)
ECT679 Advanced Optical Communication Systems 3 (3-0-0)
ECT686 Photonic Integrated Devices and Systems 3 (3-0-0)
ECP667 Comm. Lab-I 3 (0-0-6)
ECT990 Mathematical Methods & Techniques for ECE technologists-I* 3 (3-0-0)
ECT992 Mathematical Methods & Techniques for ECE technologists-II* 3 (3-0-0)
Total Semester Credits 21
Semester 2 (2 + 5 electives)
ECP668 Comm. Lab-II 3(0-0-6)
ECD666 Minor Project 4(0-0-8)
(Elective Courses)#
ECT662 Advanced Digital Signal & Image Processing 3 (3-0-0)
ECT664 Estimation and Detection 3 (3-0-0)
ECT670 Satellite Communication and Radar Engg. 3 (3-0-0)
ECT672 Wireless and Mobile Adhoc Networking 3 (3-0-0)
ECT674 Cryptography 3 (3-0-0)
ECT676 Design of Microstrip Antennas 3 (3-0-0)
ECT678 Design of MIC’s & MMIC’s 3 (3-0-0)
ECT680 Advanced Mobile Systems 3 (3-0-0)
ECT682 Smart and Phased Array Antenna Design 3 (3-0-0)
ECT684 Advance topics in Communication 3 (2-0-2)
ECT686 Optical Networks 3 (3-0-0)
ECT688 Photonic Switching 3 (3-0-0)
ECT690 Wireless Sensor Networks 3 (3-0-0)
ECT692 Computational Electromagnetics 3 (3-0-0)
ECT694 Advanced Photonic Devices and Components 3 (3-0-0)
ECT696 Telecomm. Technology & management 3 (3-0-0)
ECT698 Advanced Networking analysis 3 (3-0-0)
ECT656 Adaptive Signal Processing 3 (3-0-0)
ECT657 VLSI signal processing architectures 3 (3-0-0)
ECT655 Optical Codes and Applications 3 (3-0-0)
Total Semester Credits 22
Semester 3
ECP699 Dissertation 16(0 0 32)
Total Semester Credits 16
Semester 4
ECP700 Dissertation 16(0 0 32)
Total Semester Credits 16
Total Credits of all semesters 75

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#These courses will be offered by the faculty of Department.
#The students may opt for any of the elective course offered in the Institute on recommendation of supervisor
* only one course out of WOT990 or WOT992 shall be offered
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Wireless & Optical Communication (WOT) 

Program: M.Tech. WOT  Department: ECE
Course Code: ECT 661  Course Name: Advance Digital 
Communication System 
Credit:3  L‐T‐P: 3-0-0
Pre‐requisite course: 
Syllabus:‐ 
Baseband modulation and demodulation: Detection of binary signals in Gaussian noise, ISI,
Equalization, Carrier and symbol synchronization, Signal design for band limited channels.
Band pass modulation and demodulation: Modulation techniques, Coherent and Non coherent
detection, Error performance for binary system, Symbol error performance for M-ary systems.
Communication link Analysis: Link budget analysis, Simple link analysis, System trade-offs.
Modulation and coding trade-offs. Spread spectrum: signal PN sequences, DS-CDMA, FH-
CDMA, Jamming consideration.
Communication through fading channels:
Linear and Nonlinear multiuser detection techniques
 
Books: 
1. Sklar; Digital Communications, Pearson.
2. Proakis; Digital Communications, TMGH
 

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Program: M.Tech. WOT  Department: ECE
Course Code:ECT 663  Course Name:Advanced Error Control 
Codes 
Credit:3  L‐T‐P: 3-0-0
Pre‐requisite course: 
Syllabus:‐ 
Error Control coding for wireless fading channels, Channel Estimation and Adaptive channel
coding, Joint Source and Channel coding. Non binary Linear Block Codes, Hard and soft
 

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decision decoding, Coding and Decoding of BCH, Reed Solomon Codes, Convolution codes:
Coding and Decoding, Distance bounds, Performance bounds Turbo codes: Coding, Decoding
Algorithms, Performancecomparison, Interleaver design Trellis coded Modulation, TCM
Decoders, TCM for AWGN and Fading Wireless Channels, Performance comparison.
 
Books: 
1. Stephen G. Wilson; Digital Modulation & Coding;. Prentice Hall Inc.
2. Ranjan Bose; Information Theory Coding and Cryptography, TMH
3 .Blahut R.E. , Theory and practice of error control codes, AWL1983.
4. J.G.Proakis; Digital Communication
 
 

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Program: M.Tech. WOT  Department: ECE
Course Code:ECT 665    Course Name:Wireless Communications 
Credit:3  L‐T‐P: 3-0-0
Pre‐requisite course: 
Syllabus:‐ 
WIRELESS CHANNEL PROPAGATION AND MODEL :
Propagation of EM signals in wireless channel – Reflection, diffraction and Scattering-Small
scale fading- channel classification- channel models – COST -231 Hata model, Longley-Rice
Model, NLOS Multipath Fading Models: Rayleigh, Rician, Nakagami, Composite Fading –
shadowing Distributions, Link power budget Analysis.
DIVERSITY :
Capacity of flat and frequency selective fading channels-Realization of independent fading
paths, Receiver Diversity: selection combining, Threshold Combining, Maximum-ratio
Combining, Equal gain Combining. Transmitter Diversity: Channel known at transmitter, channel
unknown at the transmitter.
MIMO COMMUNICATIONS:
Narrowband MIMO model, Parallel decomposition of the MIMO channel, MIMO channel
capacity, MIMO Diversity Gain:Beamforming, Diversity-Multiplexing trade-offs, Space time
Modulation and coding : STBC,STTC, Spacial Multiplexing and BLAST Architectures.
MULTI USER SYSTEMS:
Multiple Access : FDMA,TDMA, CDMA,SDMA, Hybrid techniques, Random Access:
ALOHA,SALOHA,CSMA, Scheduling, power control, uplink downlink channel capacity,
multiuser diversity, MIMO-MU systems.
WIRELESS NETWORKS:
3G Overview, Migration path to UMTS, UMTS Basics, Air Interface, 3GPP Network
Architecture, 4G features and challenges, Technology path, IMS Architecture - Introduction to
wireless LANs -IEEE 802.11 WLANs - Physical Layer- MAC sublayer.
 

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REFERENCES:
1. Andrea Goldsmith, Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
2. HARRY R. ANDERSON, “Fixed Broadband Wireless System Design” John Wiley – India,
2003.
3. Andreas.F. Molisch, “Wireless Communications”, John Wiley – India, 2006.
4. Simon Haykin & Michael Moher, “Modern Wireless Communications”, Pearson Education,
2007.
5. Rappaport. T.S., “Wireless communications”, Pearson Education, 2003.
6. Clint Smith. P.E., and Daniel Collins, “3G Wireless Networks”, 2nd Edition, Tata McGraw Hill,
2007.
7. Vijay. K. Garg, “Wireless Communication and Networking”, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers,
http://books.elsevier.com/9780123735805:, 2007.
8. Kaveth Pahlavan,. K. Prashanth Krishnamuorthy, "Principles of Wireless Networks", Prentice
Hall of India, 2006.
9. William Stallings, "Wireless Communications and networks" Pearson / Prentice Hall of India,
2nd Ed., 2007.
10. Sumit Kasera and Nishit Narang, “3G Networks – Architecture, Protocols and Procedures”,
Tata McGraw Hill, 2007.
 

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Program: M.Tech. WOT  Department: ECE
Course Code:ECT 679  Course Name: Advance Optical 
Communication Systems 
Credit:3  L‐T‐P: 3-0-0
Pre‐requisite course: 
Syllabus:‐ 
 
Review of optical fiber wave guiding concepts, Advance fiber design: Dispersion issues,
Dispersion shifted, Dispersion flattened, Dispersion compensating fiber, Design optimization of
single mode fibres. Nonlinear effects in fiber optic links. Concept of self-phase modulation,
group velocity dispersion and solution based communication. Transmitter design, Receiver PIN
and APD diodes design, noise sensitivity and degradation, Receiver amplifier design.
Transceivers for fiber optic communication pre amplifier type- optical receiver performance
calculation - noise effect on system performance receiver modules.
Coherent, homodyne and heterodyne keying formats, BER in synchronous- and asynchronous-
receivers,
sensitivity degradation, system performance, Multichannel, WDM, multiple access networks,
WDM
Components, TDM, Subcarrier and Code division multiplexing. Semiconductor laser amplifiers,
Raman - and Brillouin - fiber amplifiers, Erbium doped – fiber amplifiers, pumping phenomenon,

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LAN and cascaded in-line amplifiers. Limitations, Post-and Pre-compensation techniques,
Equalizing filters, fiber based gratings, Broad band compression, solution communication
system, fiber soliton, Soliton based communication system design, High capacity and WDM
soliton system.
Optical networks- Basic networks-sonnet/ SDH-wavelength routed networks -Nonlinear effects
on network performance-performance of various systems (WDM DWDM + SOA) - Optical
CDMA- solitons-Ultra high capacity networks.
 
Books: 
1. Fiber-Optic Communication System by Govind P. Agrawal
2. Franz and Jain, " Optical communication system ", Narosa Publications, New Delhi, 1995.
 
 

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Program: M.Tech. WOT  Department: ECE
Course Code: ECT 686  Course Name: Photonic Integrated 
Devices and Systems 
Credit:3  L‐T‐P: 3‐0‐0
Pre‐requisite course: 
Syllabus:‐ 
Planar waveguides: Step-index and graded-index waveguides, guided and radiation modes.
Strip and channel waveguides, anisotropic waveguides, segmented waveguide; electro-optic
and acousto-optic waveguide devices. Directional couplers, optical switch; phase and amplitude
modulators, filters, etc. Y-junction, power splitters, Arrayed waveguide devices, fiber pig tailing,
Fabrication of integrated optical waveguides and devices. Waveguide characterization, end-fire
and prism coupling; grating and tapered couplers, nonlinear effects in integrated optical
waveguides.
New materials and process technologies for optical device fabrication, advanced optical sources
& detectors, amplifiers, their reliability issues, Optical integrated circuits, hybrid & monolithic
systems, optical inter-connects, materials and processing for OEIC.
Optical sensors intrinsic & extrinsic, principles of pressure, temperature, displacement and
velocity measurements 
 
Books: 
1. Integrated Optics, by Robert G. Hunsperger, Springer
2. Integrated Photonics: Fundamentals, By GinésLifante, John Wiley and Sons 
 
 

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Program: M.Tech. WOT  Department: ECE
Course Code: ECT 990  Course Name: : Mathematical Methods and
techniques for Electronics & Communication
Technologists-I
Credit:3  L‐T‐P: 2‐1‐0
Pre‐requisite course: 
[The following contents have implicit application to and exemplification through ECE problems such as
communication over unreliable channel, processing of random signals, amplitude modulation by random
signals, reliability of a electronic/communication systems, resource sharing in a system, and networks of
queues]
A. Applied Probability and probability models: one- and two-dimensional random
variables (RVs); discrete RVs- Poisson, geometric, binomial, hyper-geometric &
multi-model; continuous RVs- normal, exponential, Gamma, chi-square, bivariate
normal; moment generating function & Laplace of RV distribution; Random
processes; Markov chain- continuous, discrete; Poisson process; renewal theory;
queuing theory; reliability theory;
16 Hrs.
B. Brownian motion & stationery processes; Computer methods for generating RVs;
Simulation- general & special techniques for continuous and discrete
distributions, multi-variate distributions; variance reduction techniques; Monte-
Carlo techniques 05 Hrs.
C. Transforms & systems analysis- Fourier Series, Fourier transform, z-transform,
discrete cosine (sine) transform, Wavelet transform, fractional transforms.
07 Hrs.
Suggested references (not limited to)-
1. Probability, random variables and stochastic processes, A. Papoulis and U. S. Pillai, Mc Graw Hill.
2. Probability & random processes for Electrical Engineers- Alberto Leon Garcia, Pearson (I)Applied
Probability models for optimization- Sheldon M. Ross, Elsevier, 2009
3. Mathematical methods in Electrical engineering, Thomas B. A. Senior, Cambridge University Press
Further references
1. Discrete Wavelet transforms, Patrick J. Van Fleet, Wiley Interscience, 2007
2. Probability & statistics for engineers & scientists- Sheldon M. Ross, Elsevier, 2009
3. PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS IN ENGINEERING, William W. Hines, Douglas C. Montgomery,
David M. Goldman. Connie M. Borror, John Wiley & Sons, 2008
4. Laplace and Fourier transforms for electrical engineers, Edward J. Craig, Holt, Rinehart and

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5. Computational Probability- Winfried K. Grassman, Kluwer
 
 

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Program: M.Tech. WOT  Department: ECE
Course Code: ECT 992  Course Name: Mathematical Methods and
techniques for Electronics & Communication
Technologists-II
Credit:3  L‐T‐P: 3‐0‐0
Pre‐requisite course: 
Syllabus:
[The following contents implicit application to and exemplification through ECE problems such as reduced
order polynomials, order reduction of a transfer function, sparse matrix based solution of large systems,
implementation of search algorithms for design space exploration]
A. Linear algebra and Matrix analysis – Groups, fields and rings; vector spaces; basis &
dimensions; canonical forms; inner product spaces- orthogonalization, Gram-Schmidt
orthogonalization, unitary operators, change of orthonormal basis, diagonalization;
eigenvalues & eigen vectors- Gerschgorin theorem, iterative method, Sturm sequence,
QR method, introduction to large eigen value problems.
10 Hrs.
B. Function approximation & reduced order modelling of systems- Taylor’s polynomial,
least square approximation, Chebyshev series/polynomial, splines, Pade & rational
approximation, Krylov subspaces, Lanczos process, Arnoldi method; Symbolic analysis
and reduced order modelling of interconnects, linear and weakly non-linear analog/digital
systems 12 Hrs.
C. Combinatorial optimization- counting methods, algorithms for optimization 06 Hrs.
Suggested references (not limited to)-
1. Topics in Algebra, I. N. Herstein, Wiley. Theory and Applications of Numerical
Analysis, G. M. Phillips, Peter J. Taylor, Academic press
2. Advanced Model Order Reduction Techniques in VLSI Design, Sheldon Tan, Lei
He, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007.
3. Model Order Reduction: Theory, Research Aspects and Applications edited by
W. H. A. Schilders, Henk A. Van Der Vorst, Joost Rommes, Springer.
4. Combinatorial optimization, Papadimitriou and Steiglitz, PHI (I)

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 1. Model Order Reduction Techniques With Applications In Electrical Engineering,
Luigi Fortuna, Guiseppe Nunnari, Antonio Gallo, Springer, 1992.
2. Y. Saad, Numerical methods for large Eigenvalue problems, www.umn.edu
3. Matrix Analysis & linear algebra, Meyer, SIAM
4. Schaum’s outline on Linear Algebra, McGraw Hill
5. H. A. van der Vorst, Iterative methods for large linear systems,
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu
6. Cheng et al, Symbolic analysis and reductions of VLSI circuits, Springer, 2005

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Program: M.Tech. WOT  Department: ECE
Course Code:ECT 662  Course Name: Advance Digital Signal & 
Image Processing 
Credit:3  L‐T‐P:3-0-0
Pre‐requisite course: 
Syllabus:‐ 
Introduction to Multirate systems and filter banks, 2D systems and mathematical
preliminaries, Digital Representation of Binary & Gray Scale and colour Images, Linear
operations on images.
Image sampling and quantization: 2D Sampling on rectangular and nonrectangular sampling
lattice, Aliasing, Lloyd-Max quantizer etc.
Image Transforms: 2D Discrete Fourier transform, DCT, DST and Hadamard ,Harr K-L
Transforms & their applications to image processing.
Image restoration:Wiener filtering , smoothing splines and interpolation.
Image Enhancement Techniques: Gray scale transformation, Histogram matching and
equalization, Smoothening:- Noise Removal, Averagins, Median, Min/Max. Filtering
sharpening of Images using differentiation, the laplaciam, High Emphasis filtering,
Image analysis: Edge detection, Boundary Lines & Contours.
Image representation by Stochastic models: ARMA models, 2D linear prediction.
Image Segmentation &Thresholding: Multiband Thresholding, Thresholding from Textures,
Selective histogram Technique.
Image Compression: Compression Techniques using K-L Transform, Block Truncation
Compression. Error free Comprerssion using Huffman coding & Huffman shift coding.
 
 

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Books: 
1. Digital Signal Processing- Oppenheim A.V. & Schafer R.W. PHI.
2. Digital Signal Processing-by Mitra- (TATA McGraw Hill) Publications.
3. Digital Image Processing- by Gonzalez / Woods, (Pearson Education)
4. Digital Image Processing- by A.K. Jain
5. Digital Picture Processing- by Rosenfield&Kak 
 
 

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Program: M.Tech. WOT  Department: ECE
Course Code: ECT 664    Course Name: Estimation and 
Detection 
Credit:3  L‐T‐P: 3‐0‐0
Pre‐requisite course: 
Syllabus:‐ 
Classical Detection Theory:
Decision Theory; Binary Decisions , Gaussian Noise; Detection in Gaussian Noise; Discrete
Representation for Signals; Solution of the Integral Equations; Decisions among a Number of
Known Signals , Performance Bounds and Approximations, Detection in Nonwhite Gaussian
Noise
Estimation of Parameters and Random Processes:
The theory of estimation; Bayes estimation; Estimation of (Nonrandom) signal parameter;
Multiple parameter estimation, Estimation Bounds, ML estimation via Expectation-Maximization
algorithm, Regularization
Joint Estimation and Detection:
Composite Hypotheses, Linear Estimation, Elements of Modern estimation and detection theory
(as the time permits).
Books: 
1. H. L. Van Trees, Detection, Estimation, and Modulation Theory, vol. 1, Wiley Interscience,
2001.
2. C. W. Helstrom, Elements of Signal Detection and Estimation, Prentice Hall, 1995.
3. H. V. Poor, An Introduction to Signal Detection and Estimation, Springer, New York, 1994.
 
 

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Program: M.Tech. WOT  Department: ECE
Course Code:ECT 670    Course Name:Satellite Communication 
and Radar Engg. 
Credit:3  L‐T‐P: 3-0-0 
Pre‐requisite course: 
Syllabus:‐ 
Orbital parameters launching systems, Subsystem of satellite, Transponder and utilization,
Satellite link design, Frequency Reuse and polarization. Earth station design and relay links,
Multiplexing and multiple Access techniques. Introduction to spread spectrum, Lower Earth
Orbit satellites Fundamentals of radar systems, Radar modalities, basic operating principles
(detection, ranging, Doppler, importance of phase), radar system components.
 
Books: 
1. Introduction to Radar Systems: Merrill I. Skolnik, McGraw-Hill
2. Satellite communication systems, B. G. Evans, Published by IET
 
 

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Program: M.Tech. WOT  Department: ECE
Course Code: ECT 672  Course Name: Wireless and Mobile 
Adhoc Networking 
Credit:3  L‐T‐P: 3-0-0
Pre‐requisite course: 
Syllabus:‐ 
Wireless Communication Standards, Characterization of the Wireless Channel, Receiver
Techniques for Fading Dispersive Channels, Mobility Management in Wireless Networks,
Mobile IP, Mobile Ad hoc Networks, Ad hoc Routing Protocols, Performance Analysis of
DSR and CBRP, Cluster Techniques, Incremental Cluster Maintenance Scheme, Space time
Coding for Wireless Communication.
 
Books: 
1. Wireless Communication and Networking by John W. Mark, WeihuaZhuang.
 

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 2. Wireless Adhoc Networks by M. Ilyas, CRC Press
 
 

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Program: M.Tech. WOT  Department: ECE
Course Code: ECT 674    Course Name: Cryptography 
Credit:3  L‐T‐P: 3‐0‐0
Pre‐requisite course: 
Syllabus:‐ 
Cryptography: Basic Terms and Concepts, Brief History of Cryptography and Cryptanalysis.
Uses and misuses. Basic Number Theory - Divisibility, Primarily, Bases, Congruence’s, Modular
Arithmetic, GCD'S, Euclidian algorithm, Fermat and Euler Theorems, Finding large primes,
Pohlig-Hellman, RSA.
Elementary and Historical Ciphers - Caesar cipher, Transposition and Substitution, Poly-
alphabetic ciphers, Product ciphers, DES, IDEA and Exponentiation ciphers. Cipher Modes -
Block ciphers, Stream ciphers, Public vs. Private keys, Meet-in-the-middle, LFSRS.
Authentication methods - One-way ciphers, Authentication functions, Message digests, MDS,
SHA, Tripwire, Kerberos. Privacy-enhanced communication - Privacy, non-repudiation, Digital
signatures, Certificate hierarchies, X.509, PGP, PKI. Introduction to secure transaction
standards.
Key Management - Threshold schemes, Random number generation, Key escrow, Key
recovery. Applications - Mental Poker, Quadratic residues, Oblivious transfer and Zer-
knowledge proofs. Digital cash, Digital voting and Contract signing 
Books: 
1. Williain Stallings "Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice",
Pearson Education, 2000.
2. KernalTexpalan, "Communication network Management:, PHI, 1992.
3. D.E. Cormer," Computer Networks and Internet", 2nd Edition, Addison Wesley
Publication, 2000.
4. Sharma, Vakul, "Handbook of cyber Laws", Macmillan India Ltd, 2002.
 
 

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Program: M.Tech. ECE  Department: ECE
Course Code: ECT 676  Course Name: Design of Micro strip 
 

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 Antennas
Credit:3  L‐T‐P: 3‐0‐0
Pre‐requisite course: 
Syllabus:‐ 
Fundamental Properties of Single layer Micro strip Patch Antenna. Micro strip Radiators
Analytical Models for Micro strip Patch Antennas. Full wave Analysis of Micro strip Patch
Antennas.
Rectangular Micro strip Patch Antennas. Circular Dish and Ring Patch Antennas.
Circularly Polarized Micro strip Patch Antennas. Enhancing the Bandwidth of Micro strip Patch
Antennas.
Improving the Efficiency of Micro strip Patch Antennas.
Books: 
1. Micro strip Antenna Design Handbook by Ramesh Garg, Prakash Bhartia, InderBahl,
ApisakIttipiboon. Artech House.
2. Handbook of Antennas in Wireless Communication by Lal Chand Godara,CRC Press.
3. CAD of Micro strip Antenna for Wireless Applications by Robert A. Sainati, Artech
House.
4. Compact and Broadband Micro strip Antenna by Kin-Lu Wong, John Wiley & Sons.
5. Micro strip Patch Antennas by Robert B. Waterhouse, Kluwer academic Publishers.
6. Handbook of Micro strip Antennas by J.R. James and P.S. Hall, Peter Peregrinus Ltd.
 
 

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Program: M.Tech. WOT  Department: ECE
Course Code: ECT 678  Course Name: Design of MICs & 
MMICs 
Credit:3  L‐T‐P: 3-0-0
Pre‐requisite course: 
Syllabus:‐ 
Review of fundamentals of electronic conduction in compound semiconductors. Study of
semiconductors like GaAs, InP. Fundamentals of band gap engineering. New materials
and their growth techniques.
Dielectric material and their properties, thick film and thin film techniques, loss tangent,
effective dielectric constant. Effect of dielectric height, metal thickness, width and freq. on
dielectric constant.
Two and three terminal devices for MIC and MMIC applications. Study of MESFET and
HEMT performance analysis and biasing arrangements. Review of planar transmission
 

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 lines, their applications as distributed components. Device and circuit integration
techniques, multi-layered structures, probing and coupling techniques, bonding
techniques.
CAD for MIC and MMIC, Intr. to nonlinear analysis, synthesis and optimization. Application
of foundry design rules, models and design rule checks, layout techniques, process
tolerances.
Methods of measurements and testing of MIC and MMIC. Intr. to scalar and network
measurements, full nonlinear, harmonic and noise characterization.
Applications of MIC and MMIC as, passive components, switches, mixers, oscillators,
amplifiers. Intro. to Quasi-optical systems.

 
Books: 
1. 1. Microwave Material and fabrication techniques by Laverghetta, Artech House
2. Microstrip Line and Slot Lines, KC Gupta, R garg, I Bahl, P Bhartia, Artech House
3. Computer Aided Analysis of Nonlinear Microwave Circuits, Paulo JC Rodrigues, Artech
House
4. The RF and Microwave Circuit design Cookbook, SA Mass, Artech House
 
 
 

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Program: M.Tech. WOT  Department: ECE
Course Code: ECT 680  Course Name:Advance Mobile Systems
Credit:3  L‐T‐P: 3-0-0
Pre‐requisite course: 
Syllabus:‐ 
Introduction: Components of Mobile Communication systems, Operation of cellular system,
Trunking Efficiency, Concept of Frequency reuse, Multipath propagation, Short term and
Long term fading, Frequency selective fading, Signal Propagation Models.
Co-Channel Interference, Techniques for reducing Co-Channel Interference, Diversity
Techniques, Other Interferences-Adjacent Channel Interference, Near End Far End
Interference, Cross talk, Interference between systems, Hand off Techniques, Antennas for
Base Station and Mobile Units
Analog cellular Mobile System: Channel structures, RF power level, Modulation, Spectrum
& channel Designation, Network control activity, System operation , Principal functions,
Mobile scanning, registration, Call origination, Call receipt, Handoff, call termination,
security & Identification, Supervisory Audio Tone (SAT) Signalling Tone (ST), Signalling
 

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 Format.
Digital Cellular Mobile Systems: Digital v/s Analog cellular systems, Modulation, ARQ
Technique, Digital Speech coding, Digital Mobile Telephony, channel Equalization, Multiple
Access Schemes- FDMA, TDMA, CDMA.
Introduction to Analog &Digial MARR, WLL system, 3-G Systems, Mobile Computing.
Example systems: AMPS, MATS-D, CD-900, GSM,
 
Books: 
1. Mobile & Cellular Telecommunication by W.C.Y Lee. McGrawhill
2. Wireless Communications by T. S Rappaport, IEEE Press
3. Wireless & Mobile Communication Systems by D.P Agarwal& Qing Anzen,
Thomson
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Program: M.Tech. WOT  Department: ECE
Course Code: ECT 682  Course Name: Smart and Phased Array 
Antenna Design 
Credit:3  L‐T‐P: 3-0-0
Pre‐requisite course: 
Syllabus:‐ 
Microstrip radiators, printed dipole, slot, travelling wave, aperture coupled microstrip
antennas, various microstrip antenna configurations
Rectangular, Circular disk, ring, Triangular patch antennas and their design. Feed networks for
microstrip antennas and arrays.
Analytical models for microstrip antennas. Transmission line model, Cavity Model,
Multiport Network Model, Model for Coaxial probe in microstrip antenna. Full wave
analysis of microstrip antennas
Active and smart microstrip antennas, Design and analysis of microstrip antenna arrays.
 
Books: 
1. Microstrip Antenna design Handbook by R. Garg, P. Bharhia, I. Bahl, and A. Ittipiboo Pub.
ArtechHouse
2. Microstrip Antennas: Theory & Design by J. R. James, P.S. Hall and C. wood Pub.
Peter Peregrinns , UK
3. Microstrip antennas for wireless application Artech House

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Program: M.Tech. WOT  Department: ECE
Course Code: ECT 684  Course Name: Advanced Topics in 
Communication 
Credit:3  L‐T‐P: 2‐0‐2
Pre‐requisite course: 
Syllabus:‐ 
Advanced topics in: Multiuser Detection Techniques, Wireless Networking, Optical Networking,
Signal Processing, Mobile Communication, Computer Networking, and their applications.
 
Books: 
1. William Stallings, “Wireless Communications & Networks”, ISBN: 0131918354, Prentice
Hall; 2nd edition, November 12, 2004.
2. Mobile & Cellular Telecommunication by W.C.Y Lee. McGrawhill
3. Digital Signal Processing- Oppenheim A.V. & Schafer R.W. PHI.
 
 

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Program: M.Tech. WOT  Department: ECE
Course Code: ECT 686  Course Name:Optical Networks 
Credit:3  L‐T‐P: 3-0-0 
Pre‐requisite course: 
Syllabus:‐ 
Optical Networking: Introduction: circuit switching and packet switching, optical layer,
network evolution.
Optical networking components/building blocks: Optical fibers, Optical transmitter, receiver
and filters, multiplexers, switching elements, wavelength converter, and optical amplifiers.
Client layers of the optical layer, WDM network elements.
Optical switching: Packet switching, burst switching, MEMs based switching, switching with
 

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Optical Metro Network: SONET/SDH, Fault management in SONET/SDH.
Optical Access Network: Access networks, Photonic packet switching. Deployment
considerations. Overview of PON technologies, Ethernet access network, WDM-PON.
Control and management, network survivability, protection schemes
Books: 
1. C. Sivaramamurthy & M. Gurusamy, WDM Optical Networks, PHI.
2. R. Ramaswami& K. N. Sivarajan, Optical Networks (3/e), Elsevier.
Reference Books
1.John M. senior, ‘Optical fiber communication,’ PHI
2.G.E. Keiser, ‘Optical fiber communication,’ McGraw Hill
3.P.E. Green, Jr., “Fiber Optic Networks”, Prentice Hall, NJ
4.Biswanath Mukherjee, “Optical WDM Networks”, Springer
 
 

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Program: M.Tech. WOT  Department: ECE
Course Code: ECT 688  Course Name:Photonic Switching 
Credit:3  L‐T‐P: 3-0-0 
Pre‐requisite course: 
Syllabus:‐ 
Introduction to Photonic Switching: All Optical Switches, Comparison of OEO and OOO switches
Parameters used for switch performance evaluation, applications of optical Switches, optica
cross-connects, protection and restoration, optical Add/Drop multiplexing, optical signa
monitoring, etc.
Switch Types & Structures: Optical Switch Fabrics, Opto-mechanical Switches, Optical Micro
Electro-Mechanical Systems (Optical MEMS), Electro-Optic Switches, Thermo-Optic Switches
Liquid-Crystal Switches, Bubble Switches. Acousto-Optic Switches, Semiconductor Optica
Amplifier Switches, grated switches and photonic crystal fibre based switches, etc.
Switch Architectures: Introduction to various architectures & algorithms for building large
switches, Cross, Clos, Banyan architecture, Benes architecture, Spanke architecture, Spanke-
Benes architecture, etc.
Optical Switching Networks: The Evolution of Optical Networks, Broadcast-and-Select
Networks, Wavelength-Routed Networks, View of the Current Networks, Optical Networking,
Switching in Optical Networks, Opaque Switching, Challenges for Optical Switching, Optical
Switching Paradigms, nano photonic switches.
Books:
1. Optical Switching by G.I Papadimitriou, C. Papazoglon and A.S Pomportsis, Wiley series
 

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2. Optical components for communications by Ching-Fuh Lin, Kluwer academic publishers.
3. Photonics by Ralf Menzel, Springer International Edition.
4. All-Optical Networking 1999: Architecture, Control, and Management issues 19-21
September 1999 Boston, Massachusetts Books (Half.com)
 
 

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Program: M.Tech. WOT  Department: ECE
Course Code: ECT 690  Course Name:Wireless Sensor 
Networks 
Credit:3  L‐T‐P: 3-0-0
Pre‐requisite course: 
Syllabus:‐ 
Network architecture, wireless communication: the physical layer in WSN, WSN medium
access control and link layer protocols, WSN services: synchronization and localization,
topology control and routing, data-centric and content-based routing, Quality of Service and
transport protocols, in-network aggregation and WSN security
 
Books: 
1. Murthy &Manoj, "Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Architectures and Protocols," ISBN 0-13-
147023-X, Pearson 2004
2. William Stallings, “Wireless Communications & Networks”, ISBN: 0131918354, Prentice
Hall; 2nd edition, November 12, 2004.
 
 

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Program: M.Tech. WOT  Department: ECE
Course Code: ECT 692  Course Name:Computational 
Electromagnetics 
Credit:3  L‐T‐P: 3-0-0
Pre‐requisite course: 
 

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Review of Electromagnetic Theory, Classification of EM Problems. Analytical Methods-
Separation of Variables. Finite Difference Methods. Variation Methods. Moment Method.
Finite element Method. Transmission line Matrix Method. Monti-Carlo Method 
 
Books: 
1. Numerical Techniques in Electromagnetics IIed, by Matthew N.O. Sadiku, CRC Press.
2. 2-D Electromagnetic Simulation of Passive Microstrip Circuits by Alejandro Duenas
Jimenez, CRC Press 
 
 

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Program: M.Tech. WOT  Department: ECE
Course Code: ECT 694  Course Name:Advance Photonic 
Devices and Components 
Credit:3  L‐T‐P: 3-0-0
Pre‐requisite course: 
Syllabus:‐ 
Components for Fiber optic Networks- Couplers/Splitters- -semiconductor optical amplifier-
bandwidth of SOPA- Polarization dependant gain noise-erbium doped fiber amplifiers- WD
multiplexers / demultiplexers- Filters- isolator-circulators-Optical switches-wavelength
converters- Fiber gratings-tunable sources tunable filters. Photonic crystal structures and
devices.
Homo-and hetero-junctions, quantum wells, advanced semi-conductor materials Semiconductor
optical amplifiers, LEDs and LDs: Device structure and Characteristics, DFB, DBR, and quantum
well lasers, VCSELS & Laser diode arrays.
Computer aided design of integrated optical waveguide devices. Application of photonics
to microwave devices. Nonlinear optical waveguides.
Engineering of DWDM systems. ITU standards and nomenclature, channel capacity, bit
rate and modulation, network topologies, current performance and future research issues.
 
Books: 
1. Fiber Optic Communication systems, G.P.Aggarwal,Wiley Eastern
2. Introduction to Fiber Optics , A.Ghatak and K.Thyagrajan, Cambridge Univ.
Press
3. Introduction to Optical Electronics, K.A. Jones, Harper & Row
 

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Program: M.Tech. WOT  Department: ECE
Course Code: ECT 696  Course Name:Telecom Technology & 
Management 
Credit:3  L‐T‐P: 3-0-0
Pre‐requisite course: 
Syllabus:‐ 
Introduction to existing telecommunication technologies GSM, WLL, CDMA,
Circuit, packet, frame relay and ATM switching, Broadband ISDN, Evolution of IS-95 and third generation
systems,

Microcell networks planning in CDMA, Indoor planning, Sectorization and smart antenna,
Tariff rules and guidelines, Comparison of different wireless technologies.
 
Books: 
1. W. Stalling, Data Comm. & Networking
 
 

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Program: M.Tech. WOT  Department: ECE
Course Code: ECT 698  Course Name: Advanced Networking 
Analysis 
Credit:3  L‐T‐P: 3-0-0
Pre‐requisite course: 
Syllabus:‐ 
Advanced network analysis: Application analysis using the Application form (AAF)

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 Binary-Hex-Decimal conversion , Building test packets, Calculating the cost of network
problems(Analysis ROI), Key network calculations: Throughput , Latency and Bandwidth,
Unattended captures: Triggered starts/stops, Analysis ROI worksheet/calculation
 
Books: 
1. CCNA Portable Command Guide, Second Edition by Scott Empson
2. Network Analysis by Laura Chappell
 
 

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Program: M.Tech. WOT  Department: ECE
Course Code: ECT 656  Course Name: Adaptive Signal 
Processing 
Credit:3  L‐T‐P: 3-0-0
Pre‐requisite course: 
Syllabus:‐ 
Introduction to Adaptive Signal Processing, Review of Random Variables and Expectation.
Review of Random Processes, Stationarity, Filtering of Random Processes, PSD, ARMA
Processes
Mean-Square-Error Estimation
Wiener Filtering
Steepest Descent Algorithms
LMS Algorithm and its variants
 
Books: 
S. Haykin - Adaptive Filter Theory
Ali Sayed - Adaptive Filters
Monson Hayes - Statistical Digital Signal Processing and Modeling
 
 

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Program: M.Tech. WOT  Department: ECE
Course Code: ECT 657  Course Name: VLSI based Signal 
Processing Architectures 
 

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Credit: 3  L‐T‐P: 3‐0‐0
Pre‐requisite course: 
Co‐requisite course: 
Syllabus:
Introduction for DSP algorithms : VLSI Design flow, Mapping algorithms into
Architectures: Graphical representation of DSP algorithms – signal flow graph (SFG), data
flow graph (DFG), critical path, dependence graph (DG). Data path synthesis, control
structures, Optimization at Logic Level and architectural Design, Loop bound and iteration
bound, Algorithms for computing iteration bound, Iteration bound of Multirate data-flow
graphs.
Parallel and pipeline of signal processing application : Architecture for real time
systems, latency and throughput related issues, clocking strategy, power conscious
structures, array architectures; Pipelining processing of Digital filter, Parallel processing,
Parallel and pipelining for Low power design, Optimization with regard to speed, area and
power, asynchronous and low power system design, ASIC (application specific integrated
circuits) and ASISP application specific instruction set processors) design;
Systolic Array Architecture: Methodology of systolic array architecture, FIR based
Systolic Array, Selection of Scheduling Vector, Matrix multiplication of systolic array
Architecture of different signal processing modules : Convolution technique, Retiming
concept, Folding /Unfolding Transformation, CORDIC architecture
Low power Design :Theoretical background , Scaling v/s power consumption, power
analysis, Power reduction techniques, Power estimation approach
Application in communication and signal processing system: Transformation
architectures, source and channel coding structures, Motion Estimation and motion
compensation for video, Speech processing algorithm

Suggested references (not limited to)-

1) VLSI Digital Signal Processing Systems: Design and Implementation

By K.K. Parhi , John Wiley & Sons, 1999 (ISBN Number: 0-471-24186-5)
2) Richard J, Higgins, Digital Signal Processing in VLSI, Prentice Hall, ISBN-10:
013212887X, ISBN-13: 9780132128872
3) M.A. Bayoumi, VLSI Design Methodology for DSP Architectures, Kluwer, 1994
4) U. Meyer – Baese , Digital Signal Processing with FPGAs, Springer, 2004

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Program: M.Tech. WOT  Department: ECE
Course Code: ECT 655  Course Name: Optical Codes and 
Applications 
Credit:3  L‐T‐P: 3-0-0 
Pre‐requisite course: 
Syllabus:‐ 
Prerequisites: Information Theory and Coding, Optical Communications

Introduction: Historical Perspective of Optical Communications, Optical Transmission and

Optical Networking, Optical Communications Trends, Migration to 100 Gb/s Ethernet and
Beyond, Dynamically Reconfigurable Optical Networks.

Optical Coding Schemes : 1-D, 2-D and 3-D Coding , Enabling Hardware Technologies ,
Potential Applications .

Hybrid Multiplexing Techniques: Hybrid Multiplexing Transmission System , Photonic Gateway -

Multiplexing Format Conversion , OCDMA/WDM Virtual Optical Path Cross Connect .
Integration Technologies: Integration Strategies , Encoding/Decoding for OCDMA Systems ,
Integrated Modules.
 
Books/References: 
1. Coding for optical channels - Ivan Djordjevic, William Ryan, Bane Vasic (Springer)
2. Optical coding theory with prime - Wing C. Kwong; Guu-Chang Yang (CRC Press)
3. Optical code division multiple access: Fundamentals and Applications - Paul R. Prucnal
(CRC Press)
4. Spreading codes for all-optical code division multiple access communication systems –
M. Ravi Kumar (Ph.D. Thesis, IIT Kharagpur)
5. Design and Performance Analysis of a New Family of Wavelength/Time Codes for Fiber-
Optic CDMA Networks - E. S. Shivaleela (Ph.D. Thesis, IISc Bangalore)

 
 

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