Telecommunications and Networks MSc

Comments about Telecommunications and Networks MSc - At the institution - London - Greater London

• Entry requirements
  The minimum requirement is a second-class honours degree, or equivalent in an acceptable scientific or engineering discipline. For those students whose first language is not English, the following qualifications are also required: * IELTS: 6.5 * TOEFL (internet-based): 100
• Academic title
  Telecommunications and Networks MSc
• Course description
  Course overview
  
  This course will prepare students for a career in the fast changing world of telecommunications and networks. The syllabus covers the recent major technological developments in telecommunications and networks including:
  
      * Digital, mobile and wireless communications
      * Photonics and optical communications
      * Internet and web service security
      * Communication networks
  
  The course provides the skills and knowledge base for a professional career as design and development engineers in the mobile, wireless, internet, optical and telecommunications sectors or a higher research degree course.
  
  Course content
  
  Modules include:
  
      * Multiservice communication networks
      * Signals and information theory
      * Cryptography and coding
      * Advanced cryptanalysis
      * Digital image processing
      * Optical communications
      * Lasers and optoelectronics
      * Digital signal processing
      * Web service security
      * Wireless communications
      * Research skills and techniques module
  
  Students undertake an individual project. This project provides an opportunity for students to undertake a substantial piece of work, developed in close collaboration with research groups within the School.