INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

PUST

Faculty of Engineering and Technology

Academic Syllabus for Postgraduate Students

Session: 2018-2019

PABNA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

PABNA, BANGLADESH

ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

The Department of Information and Communication Engineering (ICE) was founded in 2011. The goal of ICE Department is to cultivate highly-motivated and well-trained professionals who will lead the ICT arena. The Department of Information and Communication Engineering offers various specialized educational programs to create many competent engineers with profound knowledge of academic theories and practical approaches for the development of our country and all human society, in general.

The department offers both basic and advanced courses. In the Department of Information and Communications Engineering, students study basic and applied technologies related to IT as well as information processing, information systems, robotics and the diverse technologies upon which our IT society is based on. To become engineers with knowledge related to the construction and management of communication networks which serve as transmission media, software driven management, and the control of systems. They support these networks, and knowledge related to hardware design and manufacture.

The department has a number of well-constructed laboratories, namely Software Laboratory, Electrical & Electronics laboratory, Communication laboratory. Well-equipped computers are provided for the students, faculty members as well as the researchers. The department has a seminar library. Students are encouraged for academic excellence by awarding various prizes, medals and certificates in per year performances. The department also arranges co-curriculum activities among the students such as programming contests, software exhibitions, cultural events, games competitions, debates etc. in every year.

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1. INTRODUCTIONThe Department of Information and Communication Engineering (ICE) of Pabna University of Science and Technology (PUST) has introduced M.Sc. Engg. and M.Engg. degree from the academic session 2018-2019under the Faculty of Engineering and Technology. The credit point system will be the deciding factor to assess this program. All the departments under this faculty will have full autonomy to develop guidelines and conduct all types of academic activities within it strictly observing this ordinance.

2. STUDENT ADMISSION2.1After admission each student shall be assigned, by the Academic Committee (BPGS/RAC) of the department, an Adviser from among the teachers of the Department not below the rank of an Assistant Professor. In advance of each enrolment and course registration for any semester, the Adviser or Supervisor shall check and approve his/her student’s schedule for subjects, pre-requisites as recommended by the Selection Committee and the total hours. The student is expected consult his/her Adviser/Supervisor on all academic matters but, it is the responsibility of the individual student to see that his/her schedule conforms to the academic regulations.

2.2Every registered student shall get himself/herself enrolled on payment of prescribed fees and other dues as per the University rules before the commencement of each semester. In an academic year there will be normally two semesters. All course registration must be completed within two weeks from the start of a semester.

2.3No late registration will be allowed after two weeks of designated dates of registration. Late registration after this date may only be accepted for thesis/project if the student submits a written appeal to the Registrar through the concerned Head and can document extenuating circumstances such as medical problems (physically incapacitated and not able to be presented) from the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of the University or some other academic commitments which precluded registration prior to the last date of registration.Students will be charged a late registration fee of Tk. 1000.00 (One thousand) only. This extra fee will not be waived whatever be the reason for late registration.

2.4If a student us unable to complete the final examination of a semester due to serious illness or serious accident or official commitment he/she may apply to the Registrar in a prescribed form through Head/Director of the degree awarding Department/Institute for total withdrawal from the semester within a week after the end of the semester final examination.The application must be supported by a medical certificate from the

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CMO, PUST or relevant Official documents. The Academic Council will take the final decision about such application on the recommendation of the BPGS/RAC.

3. ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS AND REGULATIONS3.1The minimum duration of the M.Sc. Engg./M.Engg. program shall be three semesters. A candidate for the Master’s degree must complete all the requirements for the degree within three academic years (Session) from the date of the first admission in the respective programme.

3.2Academic progress shall be measured in terms of credit hours earned by a student. One credit hour subject shall normally require 14 hours of lecture for one semester; while one credit hour for thesis/project/ laboratory should normally require 42 hours of work for one semester. The number of credit hours for each subject shall be as specified in the syllabus of the respective department / institute.

3.3The credit hour requirement for the Masters Program shall be as follows:

3.3.1For the degree of M.Sc. Engg. a student must earn a minimum of 36 credits including a thesis for which 18 credits shall be assigned.

3.3.2For the degree of M. Engg. a student must earn a minimum of 36 credits including a project for which 6 credit shall be assigned.

3.4There shall be two categories of students, namely, full-time students and part-time students.

3.4.1A part time student may be assigned a maximum of 9 credits of course including thesis/ project work in any semester. Full time students must register for a minimum of 12 credits and a maximum of 15 credits per semester. A full time student shall not be allowed to be in the employment of any organization (even as a part time employee). However, they may be employed as teaching/ research assistant at the University. If a full time student becomes an employee (full time or part time) of any other organization in the middle of a semester, he/she may, with the approval of the Head of the Department / Director of the Institute and his/her Employer, be allowed to continue as a full time student for that semester.

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3.4.2A student may be allowed to switch from part-time to full-time or vice versa on the recommendation of the BPGS/RAC before the commencement of a semester.

3.5The courses of study shall be as recommended by the BPGS / RAC and the Faculty / CASR and approved by the Academic Council. The BPGS / RAC may review the curriculum from time to time and recommend any changes as may be considered necessary. The courses to be offered in any semester shall also be as determined by the BPGS / RAC.

4. GRADING SYSTEM4.1Final grades for courses shall be recorded as follows:

Grade Merit description Grade PointsA (Plus) Excellent 4.0A Very good 3.5B (Plus) Good 3.0B Average 2.5C Pass 2.0F Failure 0.0I Incomplete (for theory course) -S Satisfactory -U Unsatisfactory -W Withdrawn -X In Progress (for thesis/project) -I Discontinued (for thesis/project) -

4.2Courses in which the student gets F grades shall not be counted towards credit hour requirements and for the calculation of Grade Point Average (GPA)

4.2.1The C grades, up to a maximum of two courses, may be ignored for calculation of GPA at the written request of the student to the Head of the Department / Director of the Institute on the recommendation of the Supervisor /Advisor, provided that the student has fulfilled the total course credit hour requirement in the remaining subjects with a minimum GPA of 2.75.

4.2.2When a course is repeated for improvement, better grade shall be counted for calculation of GPA.

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4.2.3Performance in all the subjects including all the F grades shall be reflected in the transcript.

4.3Grade I is given only when a student is unable to sit for the examination of a course at the end of the semester because of circumstances beyond his/her control. He/She must apply to the Head of the Department / Director of the Institute within one week after the examination to get an I grade in that course. It must be completed within the next two semesters, otherwise, the I becomes an F grade. He/She may, however, be allowed to register without further payment of tuition fees for that course.

4.4Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory- used only as final grades for thesis/project and non-credit courses. An X grade shall be recorded for thesis/project continuation.. If, however, thesis/ project is discontinued an I grade shall be recorded.

4.5Students may enroll for non-credit course(s) termed as audit course(s) on recommendation of his/her thesis / project Supervisor and Head of the Department / Director of the Institute.

4.6A student shall withdraw officially from a course within two working weeks of the commencement of the semester or else his grade in that course shall be recorded as F unless he/she is eligible to get a grade of I. A student may be permitted to withdraw and change his/her course within the specified period with the approval of his/her Adviser, Head of the Department and the respective teacher(s) concerned. (In that case his / her grade in the courses registered shall be recorded as ‘W’ in his Academic Record but shall not be reflected in the transcript.)

4.7Numerical markings may be made in answer scripts, tests etc., but all final grading to be reported to the Controller of Examinations shall be in the letter grade system as detailed below:

90% and above : A (Plus)80% to below 90% : A70% to below 80% : B (Plus)60% to below 70% : B50% to below 60% : CBelow 50% : F

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5. CONDUCT OF EXAMINATION5.1In addition to tests, assignments and/ or examinations during the semester as may be given by the teacher(s) concerned, there shall be a written examination and / or other tests for each of the subjects offered in a semester at the end of that semester, the dates of which shall be announced by the Controller of Examinations, PUST as advised by Dean of the Faculty at least two weeks before the commencement of the examination. The final grade in a subject shall be based on the performance in all tests, assignments and / or examinations.

5.2The Controller of Examinations shall keep upto-date record of all the grades obtained by a student in individual Academic Record Card. Grades shall be announced by the Controller of Examinations at the end of each semester. In addition, each student is entitled to one official transcript of the University record at the completion of his academic programme from the office of the Controller of Examinations on production of statement of clearance from the department.

6. QUALIFYING REQUIREMENTS6.1The qualifying requirement for graduation is that a student must earn a minimum grade point of 2.65 based on the weighted average in his course work.

6.1.1Two courses may be repeated for improvement with the prior approval of the Head of the Department on the recommendation of the Supervisor/ Advisor. Such approval shall be reportedto the BPGS/RAC.

6.1.2A student obtaining F grade in a course may be allowed to repeat the course with the prior approval of Head of the Department on the recommendation of the Supervisor / Advisor. Such approval shall be reported to the BPGS/RAC.

6.2A student shall not be allowed to continue the program if he/she obtains a total of three or more F grades in one or more than one subjects taken together, during the course of his / her studies.

6.3 If at the end of the second or any subsequent semester, the cumulative GPA falls below 2.5 he /she shall not be allowed to continue in the program.

6.4In addition to successful completion of course works every student shall submit a

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thesis on his research work or a report on his/her project work, fulfilling the requirements as detailed in the following sections.

7. THESIS 7.1Research work for a thesis shall be carried out under the supervision of a full-time member of the staff belonging to the department. However, in special cases, a full-time member of the staff belonging to a department outside the student’s department of the University may be appointed as Supervisor, if the research content of the thesis is within the field of specializations of the member of the staff. A Co-supervisor from within or outside the department may be appointed, if necessary.

7.2If any change is necessary of the approved thesis (title, content, cost, Supervisor, Co-supervisor etc.) it shall be approved by the CASR on recommendation of the BPGS/RAC.

7.3 The research work must be carried out in this University or at a place(s) recommended by the BPGS/RAC. The work schedule and financial involvement should be mentioned in the research proposal for carrying out research work outside the university.

7.4 Every student shall submit to the Head of the Department through his/her Supervisor, required number of type written copies of his/her thesis in the approved format on or before a date to be fixed by the Supervisor concerned in consultation with the Head of the Department.

7.5 The student shall certify that the research work was done by him/her and that this work has not been submitted elsewhere for the award of any other diploma or degree.

7.6The thesis should demonstrate an evidence of satisfactory knowledge in the field of research undertaken by the student.

7.7Every student submitting a thesis in partial fulfillment of the requirements of a degree, shall be required toappear at an oral examination, on a date or dates fixed by the Supervisor concerned in consultation with the Head of the Department and must satisfy the examiners that he/she is capable of intelligently applying the results of this research to the solution of problems, of undertaking independent work, and also afford evidence of satisfactory knowledge related to the theory and technique used in his/her research work.

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COURSE STRUCTURE FOR POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION

ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Courses offered to the Post-Graduate Students by the Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Pabna University of Science and Technology.

Compulsory CoursesCourse No. Course Title Credit HoursICE 6000 Thesis (For M. Sc. Engineering) 18ICE 6000 Project (For M. Engineering) 6

Elective SubjectsCourse No. Course Title Credit HoursICE-6101 Advanced Web Engineering 3ICE-6102 Software Project Management 3ICE-6103 Software Testing 3ICE-6104 E-Commerce and E-Governance 3ICE-6105 Modeling and Simulation 3ICE-6106 Advanced Management Information System 3ICE-6107 Strategic Planning and Decision Support

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ICE-6108 Informatics 3ICE-6109 Information System and Audit 3ICE-6110 ICT Ethics and Cyber Crime 3ICE-6111 ICT Enabled Research Methodology 3ICE-6201 Network Design and Management 3ICE-6202 Advanced Networking 3ICE-6203 Wireless Ad Hoc Networks 3ICE-6204 Wireless Sensor Networks 3ICE-6205 Client Server Technology 3ICE-6206 Applied Cryptography 3ICE-6301 Radio Frequency Technology 3ICE-6302 Microwave Theory and Techniques 3ICE-6303 Antennas and Propagation 3ICE-6401 Mobile and Wireless Communications 3ICE-6402 Broadband Wireless Communications 3ICE-6403 Teletraffic Engineering 3ICE-6404 Advanced Telecommunication Engineering 3ICE-6405 Advanced Optical Fiber Communications 3ICE-6406 Advanced Satellite Communications 3

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Course No. Course Title Credit HoursICE-6407 Advanced Digital Communication 3ICE-6408 Advanced Multimedia Communications 3ICE-6409 Stochastic Theory of Communication 3ICE-6410 Information and Coding Theory 3ICE-6501 Advanced Artificial Intelligence 3ICE-6502 Robotics and Intelligent Systems 3ICE-6503 Human Computer Interaction 3ICE-6504 Machine Learning 3ICE-6505 Soft Computing 3ICE-6506 Computer Vision 3ICE-6507 Natural Language Processing 3ICE-6508 Computer Animation and Virtual Reality 3ICE-6601 Advanced Database Management 3ICE-6602 Cloud Computing 3ICE-6603 Advanced Data Mining 3ICE-6604 Pattern Recognition 3ICE-6605 Speech Recognition 3ICE-6701 Advanced Digital Signal Processing 3ICE-6702 Digital Image Processing 3ICE-6703 Digital Speech Processing 3ICE-6704 Digital Video Processing 3ICE-6705 Biomedical Signal Processing 3ICE-6706 Biomedical Image Processing 3ICE-6707 Bioinformatics 3ICE-6708 Geoinformatics 3ICE-6709 VLSI Technology and Device Modeling 3ICE-6710 Nano Technology 3ICE-6711 Special Topics in ICT 3ICE-6xxx Optional-I 3ICE-6xxx Optional-II 3

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ICE-6101: Advanced Web EngineeringCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Web Engineering: Attributes of Web based system and Application, Web App Engineering Layers, Web Engineering Process. Web App Project: Formulation Web based Systems, Planning for Web Engineering Project, Building Web Engineering Team, Web App Project Management, Metrics for web engineering and Apps.Web Apps Analysis: Requirement Analysis, Analysis Model, Web Apps Estimation, Content Model.Web Apps design: Design issues of Web Apps, Interface Design, Typography, Layout design, Aesthetic Design, Content Design, Architecture Design, Navigation Design, Object Oriented Hypermedia Design, Design Metrics for web Apps.Web Apps Implementation:   Client side scripting: Java Script, AJAX, JQuery; Server Side Scripting: ASP.NET, PHP; Framework: PHP MVC frameworks (Code Igniter, Symfony, Zend, CakePHP) ASP.NET MVC Framework, Web Service.Web Apps Security: Encryption techniques (digital signatures, certificates, PKI), Security threats, Securing client/server interactions, Vulnerabilities at the client (desktop security, phishing, etc.) and the server (cross-site scripting, SQL injections, etc.), Building Secure Web Apps.Testing Web Apps: Content Testing, User Interface Testing, Navigation Testing, Configuration Testing, Security Testing, Performance Testing.Maintenance of Web Applications: Web Server and Database server load balancing, web apps performance assessment, Application usage monitoring and report generation

ICE-6102: Software Project ManagementCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Overview of Project Management; Project tracking and scheduling; Risk management and analysis; Cost estimation models; Project metrics; Function Point Estimation; Software quality assurance; Program verification and validation techniques; Software testing techniques, Black-box and white-box techniques; Testing of various areas: Unit, Domain, Path, Equivalent class based portion, Component, Aggregation, System testing, Requirement based testing, Acceptance testing; Software reuse and maintenance; Industrial practices in software engineering; ISO certification standards for software quality assurance; Software capability maturity model and its impact.

ICE-6103: Software TestingCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Objectives of software testing, Test process, Testing and development, Test case, Test execution, Test harness, Testing and debugging, Test adequacy, Control flow graph, Errors, Faults and failures, Types of testing; Test generation from requirements:Equivalence partitioning, Boundary value analysis, Category partitioning, Fault model for predicates, Boolean operator (BOR), Boolean and relational operator (BRO) and Boolean and relational expression (BRE) methods,

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Limitations of test generation from requirements; Test adequacy assessment: Adequacy criteria, Control flow based criteria, Data flow based criteria, Mutation based criteria, Adequacy as a stopping criterion, Adequacy as a tool for test enhancement; GUI testing, Security testing, Random testing, Combinatorial testing; Testing tools: Open source and commercial software testing tools.

ICE-6104: E-Commerce and E-GovernanceCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Introduction to e-commerce: History of e-commerce, e-business models B2B, B2C, C2C, C2B, legal; environment of e-commerce, ethical issues, electronic data interchange, value chain and supply chain, advantages and disadvantages of e-commerce.Electronic Payment Systems: Credit cards, debit cards, smart cards, e-credit accounts, e-money, Marketing on the web, marketing strategies, advertising on the web, customer service and support, introduction to m-commerce, case study: e-commerce in passenger air transport. E-Government, theoretical background of e-governance, issues in e-governance applications, evolution of e-governance, its scope and content, benefits and reasons for the introduction of e-governance, e-governance models- broadcasting, critical flow, comparative analysis, mobilization and lobbying, interactive services / G2C2G.E-readiness, e-government readiness, E- Framework, step & issues, application of data warehousing and data mining in e-government, Case studies: NICNET-role of nationwide networking in e-governance, e-seva.E-Government systems security: Challenges and approach to e-government security, security concern in e-commerce, security for server computers, communication channel security, security for client computers.

ICE-6105: Modeling and SimulationCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Introduction to modeling and simulation. System analysis, Classification of systems. System theory basics, its relation to simulation. Model classification: conceptual, abstract, and simulation models. Heterogeneous models.Methodology of model building.Simulation systems and languages, means for model and experiment description. Principles of simulation system design. Parallel process modeling. Using Petri nets and finite automata in simulation.Models o queuing systems.Discrete simulation models.Model time, simulation experiment control. Continuous systems modeling. Overview of numerical methods used for continuous simulation. System Dymola/Modelica. Combined simulation. The role of simulation in digital systems design.Special model classes, models of heterogeneous systems.Cellular automata and simulation.Checking model validity, verification of models. Analysis of simulation results. Simulation results visualization. Model optimization. Generating, transformation, and testing of pseudorandom numbers. Stochastic models, Monte Carlo method. Overview of commonly used simulation systems.

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ICE-6106: Advanced Management Information SystemCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Introduction, Systems Thinking: STS review with focus on Social and Social Support System, People component,Purposeful Systems: Outcome-Directed Thinking, Managing the Choice process, Technology: Information Systems, STS review & IS Overview, Collaboration Technology, Different types of Information Systems: Map or Model, Fundamental building blocks: Computer hardware and software, Managing the Change Process: Managing/Leading Change Process: An Overview, Managing/Leading Change Process: IS Applications, Technology: Networks: e-everything: Telecommunication fundamentals, e-Business and e-Collaboration, e & c commerce case discussions, Acquiring Information Systems: Information Systems Development & Maintenance: STS view, End-user development, Implementing Purchased Software Systems, Database Management, Data Warehouses and CRM, An integrated look at Managing IS projects, Managing the Information Resource: Managing IT/IS Infrastructure, IS Planning and Managing the IS Department.

ICE-6107: Strategic Planning and Decision Support TechnologyCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Defining Strategic Planning and establishing rationales, Strategic Planning Process, Tools and approaches, Strategic change cycle, Key steps in the strategic planning cycle, Key steps in the strategic planning cycle perspectives due, Managing the strategic planning process, Planning Processes and Evaluation, Strategic planning vs. financial planning, Strategic planning vs. strategic thinking.

Defining Decision Support System (DSS), Characteristics, Evolution of DSS, DSS Taxonomies, Components, Classifications, Databases for Decision Support System, Development frameworks, DSS Architecture, DSS Examples, Applications.

ICE-6108: InformaticsCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week Introducing the field of information technology and it application to other disciplines (Informatics), Social and Ethical aspects of IT, Privacy and Security, Data, information, knowledge, Number systems, data representation (Binary, Octal, Hexadecimal, bit, byte, etc.), encoding and information Theory, Introduction to Hardware (CPU, memory, storage, etc.), Introduction to logic and its application in IT, Introduction to problem solving, algorithms, flow charts, pseudocoding, Sets, its operation and its relationship to relational databases, Introduction to programming, Introduction to networking, distributed computing, world wide web, e-commerce, e-education.

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ICE-6109: Information System and AuditCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Introduction; The Information Systems (IS) Audit Process, Management, Planning, and Organization of IS; Technical Infrastructure and Operational Practices and Infrastructure; Protection of Information Assets, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity; Business Application System Development, Acquisition, Implementation and Maintenance; Business Process Evaluation and Risk Management.

ICE-6110: ICT Ethics and Cyber CrimeCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Introduction to ICT Ethics, Ethical Concepts and Ethical Theories, Professional Ethics, Privacy, Online Privacy, Ethical use of ICT, Professional Codes of Ethics..Cyber Crimes and Cyber Laws- Introduction to IT laws & Cyber Crimes – Internet, Hacking, Cracking, Viruses, Virus Attacks, Pornography, Software Piracy, Intellectual property, Legal System of Information Technology, Social Engineering, Mail Bombs, Bug Exploits, and Cyber Security etc. Cyber Forensics Investigation- Introduction to Cyber Forensic Investigation, Investigation Tools, eDiscovery, Digital Evidence Collection, Evidence Preservation, E-Mail Investigation, E-Mail Tracking, IP Tracking, E-Mail Recovery, Encryption and Decryption methods, Search and Seizure of Computers, Recovering deleted evidences, Password Cracking. Cyber Security- Introduction to Cyber Security, Implementing Hardware Based Security, Software Based Firewalls, Security Standards, Assessing Threat Levels, Forming an Incident Response Team, Reporting Cyber crime, Operating System Attacks, Application Attacks, Reverse Engineering & Cracking Techniques and Financial Frauds.

ICE-6111: ICT Enabled Research MethodologyCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Definition of Research, Research Characteristics, The Research Process, ICT Research and Philosophies, Research Focus in Information Technology, Research Philosophies and Principles, Common Research Techniques for ICT, Aims and characteristics of research, Research Method vs. Research Methodology, Review of Literature, The Research Problem, The Research Design, Components of Research Design, Research Proposal, Research Hypotheses and Sampling, Research Methodology, Tools and Techniques of Research, Data Analysis, Research Reporting, Research Ethics,

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ICE-6201: Network Design and ManagementCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Network Design: Design Principles, Determining Requirements, Analyzing the Existing Network, Preparing the Preliminary Design, Completing the Final Design Development, Deploying the Network, Monitoring and Redesigning, Maintaining, Design Documentation, Modular Network Design, Hierarchical Network Design, The Cisco Enterprise Composite Network Model. Technologies - Switching Design: Switching Types, Spanning, Tree Protocol, Redundancy in Layer 2 Switched Networks, STP Terminology and Operation, Virtual LANs, Trunks, Inter VLAN Routing, Multilayer Switching, Switching Security and Design Considerations, IPv4 Address Design, Private and Public Addresses, NAT, Subnet Masks, Hierarchical IP Address Design, IPv4 Routing Protocols, Classification, Metrics, Routing Protocol Selection. Network Security Design: Hacking, Vulnerabilities, Design Issues, Human Issues, Implementation Issues, Threats, Reconnaissance Attacks, Access Attacks, Information Disclosure Attacks, Denial of Service Attacks, Threat Defense, Secure Communication, Network Security Best Practices, SAFE Campus Design. Wireless LAN Design: Wireless Standards, Wireless Components, Wireless Security, Wireless Security Issues, Wireless Threat Mitigation, Wireless Management, Wireless Design Considerations, Site Survey, WLAN Roaming, Wireless IP Phones, Quality of Service Design, QoS Models, Congestion Avoidance, Congestion Management. Network Management: ISO Network Management Standard, Protocols and Tools, SNMP, MIB, RMON NetFlow, Syslog, Network Management Strategy, SLCs and SLAs, IP Service-Level Agreements, Content Networking Design.

ICE-6202: Advanced NetworkingCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

The TCP/IP protocol stack: IP, ARP, TCP and UDP, DNS, ICMP, Internet addressing, routing, IP multicast, RSVP, Next Generation IPIpng Interior gateway protocols: RIPv2,IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF; Wireless: Radio basics, satellite systems, WAP, current trends,issues with wireless over TCP; Congestion control: control, avoidance, control andavoidance Algorithms, congestion in the Internet; Network Security: IP security,firewalls; Management: Quality of service (QoS), network vs. distributed systemsmanagement, integrated service, differentiated service, protocols, web-basedmanagement.

ICE-6203: Wireless Ad Hoc NetworksCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Adhoc Wireless Networks: Applications, Design Principles and Challenges, Protocol Layers,Cross-Layer Design, Network Capacity Limits, Energy-Constrained Networks.

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Broadcasting protocols: Algorithmic aspect, Optimization techniques, Power- efficient broadcasting; Routing protocols: DSDV, AODV, DSR, position based routing protocols, Load balancing techniques, Multi-path routing; Medium access control protocols: Reservation- based MAC protocols, Bluetooth technology, IEEE 802.11 based MAC protocols; Channel propagation models; Topology control protocols; Power aware protocol design; Cross layer design principles; Mobility awareness; Fairness and security issues:Attacks and preventions; Stimulating cooperation: Self policing schemes, Economic incentive based schemes.

ICE-6204: Wireless Sensor NetworksCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Introduction: Background of wireless sensor network (WSN) technology, applications of WSN, sensor node architecture, WSN architecture and protocol stack, design principles of WSN. Physical Layer and Medium Access Control (MAC) aspects: Wireless channel, PHY layer standards, S-MAC, IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee, fundamentals of MAC protocols, low duty cycle schemes, contention-based schemes, schedule-based schemes. Link Layer Aspects: Error control, ARQ technique, FEC technique, hybrid technique, framing, naming and addressing issues. Topology Control and Network Layer Aspects: Topology control in flat networks, hierarchical networks, Challenges for routing, data-centric and flat-architectural protocols, hierarchical protocols, geographic routing. Time Synchronization and Localization: Challenges for time synchronization, time synchronization techniques in WSN, challenges in localization, ranging techniques, range-based localization protocols, range-free localization protocols. Transport Layer Aspects: Challenges for transport layer, reliable data transport, single packet delivery, block delivery, congestion control and rate control in WSN.

ICE-6205: Client Server TechnologyCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Administrative details, description of client/server computing, alternative definitions. What is Client/Server Computing? Partitioning programs into clients and servers, Partitioning programs into clients and servers, Two and three-tier client/server architectures, Standards and Open Systems, Client/Server frameworks: e.g., DCE, ONC and CORBA, Naming, Addressing, and Location Services, Client/server security, Distributed file systems, Distributed DBMS, Data Replication, Client/Server and the Internet, Distributed Programming, Managing a Client/Server Environment.

ICE-6206: Applied CryptographyCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

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Overview of cryptography: terminology, steganography, computer algorithms; Protocol building blocks: one way function, hash function, digital signatures, random and pseudorandom sequence generation; Basic protocols: key exchange, authentication, formal analysis of authentication and key-exchange protocols, secret splitting, secret sharing, cryptographic protection of databases; Intermediate protocols: time stamping services, subliminal channel, different types of signatures, computing with encrypted data; Advanced protocols: zero knowledge proofs, blind signatures, identity based public key cryptography, digital certified mail, simultaneous exchange of secrets; Cryptographic techniques: key length, key management issues such as generating, transferring, storing, updating, backup and destroying of key; Cryptographic algorithms: DES, new DES, IDEA, double encryption, triple encryption, public key algorithms; Implementation of cryptographic algorithms.

ICE-6301: Radio Frequency TechnologyCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Antennas: Launching of waves, transmission, definition of antennas, reciprocity, wavepropagation, principal of equivalent sources: electric and magnetic surface current,uniqueness principle, Huygens principle, Hertzian vector, image theory; Apertureantennas: Rectangular apertures, horn antenna, corrugated horn, circular aperture,reflector and lens antennas; Linear antennas: Field calculation, current distribution, lineardipoles and monopoles, design and feeding of dipole antennas, electrically short antennas,elementary dipole, receiving antennas - group antennas: Directivity, group factor, phasedarrays, parasitic antennas; Electronic noise: Characteristics of noise voltages and currents,calculations with noise: Fourier analysis, correlation, superposition of noise quantities,transmission through linear networks, noise of 2-port networks: noise factor andtemperature, noise matching, concatenation of noisy 2-port-networks; RF amplification:2-terminal amplifiers, 2-port amplifiers: design with scattering parameters, selection ofthe point of operation, stability, unilateral design, wide-band amplifiers.

ICE-6302: Microwave Theory and TechniquesCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Circuit theory for wave guide systems. N port circuits: impedance matrix, admittance matrix, scattering matrix and transmission matrix, their properties.Periodic structures and filters: wave analysis, impedance matching, wave and group velocities; comb lines and their analysis: introduction to filters, filter design by image parameter and insertion-loss methods; design of different type of filters

ICE-6303: Antennas and PropagationCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

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Definitions, antenna as antenna as an aperture: arrays of point sources: review of dipoles, loop and thin linear antennas. Helical antenna, biconical and spheroidal antennas, Internal-equation methods, current distribution: Self and mutual impedances: arrays: design and synthesis. Reflector type antennas, Banbiner`s principle and complementary antennas. Application of reaction concept and vocational principles in antennas and propagation, Frequency independent antennas, Scattering and diffraction, Selected topics in microwave antennas, Antenna measurements, Application of broadcasting, microwave links, satellite communication and radio astronomy.

ICE-6401: Mobile and Wireless CommunicationsCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Introduction and History of Wireless Systems, Cellular Systems, Wireless LANs, Satellite Systems, Paging Systems; Radio Propagation: free space propagation, propagation mechanisms, link budget design using path loss model, outdoor propagation models, indoor propagation models; Introduction to small-scale fading, impulse response model of multipath fading, parameters of multipath channel, type of small scale fading, Rayleigh and Ricean Distribution; Media Access Control: FDMA, TDMA, and CDMA, Aloha, CSMA, MACA; GSM overview: Standards, services and structure, GSM air interface physical layer: physical channels, logical channels, frame structures, modulation, coding and interleaving, GSM signaling: Data link layer, radio resource management, mobility management, Handover, location update and roaming in GSM; Short message service (SMS), circuit switched data, General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Enhanced GPRS (EGPRS); CDMA Digital Cellular System (IS-95): Forward CDMA Channel, Reverse CDMA Channel; Satellite mobile communications: History, Localization, Handover, Routing; Broadcast System: Unidirectional distribution systems, DAB architecture, DVB-container; WCDMA in 3rd generation system, Difference between WCDMA and 2G air interface, 3rd generation standards.

ICE-6402: Broadband Wireless CommunicationsCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Overview of broadband wireless communications, multiple access techniques: TDMA, FDMA. Spread spectrum communications - direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS), FHSS, THSS, modulator and demodulator structure, probability of error, jamming margin, decoding, performance in the presence of interference, PN sequence, CDMA, MC-CDMA, UWB transmission. Multi-user detection: multiple access interference, detector performance measure - BER, asymptotic efficiency, near-far resistance; detectors - matched filter detector, de-correlator detector, MMSE detector, SIC, PIC, MAP and MLSE detectors. Propagation in mobile radio channels; channel models, fading - large scale and small scale fading, flat fading and frequency selective fading channel, fast fading and slow fading channel; delay spread, Doppler spread and angle spread; channel autocorrelation functions, scattering function, correlated and uncorrelated scattering (US), WSS and WSSUS model. Multiple antenna systems,

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capacity of SISO, SIMO, MISO and MIMO systems, ergodic capacity, outage capacity, STBC, OSTBC, QOSTBC, spatial multiplexing (SM) scheme, SM detection techniques, diversity and diversity combining techniques. Multi-carrier communications: Orthogonal FDM (OFDM), OFDM transceivers. Special issues of OFDM - cyclic prefix, timing offset, frequency offset, synchronization, peak power problem, Broadband wireless standards.

ICE-6403: Teletraffic EngineeringCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Introduction, traffic sources, resources, operational modes and traffic, unit of traffic, interarrival time and call holding time, traffic variation and busy hours; Random variables: Random variables, probability distribution function, probability density function, moments, Bernoulli random variable, uniform discrete random variable, Binomial distribution, Poisson distribution, negative exponential distribution, quality of service circuit switching voice networks, packet switched networks, probabilities of traffic systems; Models for circuit switched networks: Kendall notation, Erlang’s loss formula (M/M/n/n) and examples, marginal utility, Wilkinson’s model, equivalent random method and examples, overflow routing in circuit switched networks; Models for packet switched networks: M/M/1, M/G/1, M/G/1 priority queues, Erlang’s delay formula (M/M/n), System simulation: random number and random variable generation, event-by-event simulation method, sampling theory, simulation program organization, use of GSPN and other simulation tools.

ICE-6404: Advanced Telecommunication EngineeringCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Challenges in modern communications technology, baseband and broadband signal transmission, first and second Nyquists criteria for zero inter-symbol interference; robust signal compression and detection techniques, optimum receivers, design of frequency- and time-domain equalizers and echo cancellers; wired and wireless channel characteristics, AWGN channels, time-varying multipath faded channels, channel modeling; advanced source and channel coding techniques, high bit rate digital modulation schemes and MODEMs; SS7 and HDLC protocols, H.323, H.26x, RTP and SCTP; modern high speed communication networks and emerging technologies, access and backbone networks, intelligent networks, NGN; advanced switching and routing principles, complex multiplexing and multiple access techniques, orthogonal signals, OFDM, DWDM; broadband wireless communication, spread spectrum techniques, CDMA2000 and WCDMA, multi-carrier systems; 3G and 3GPP mobile communications and WiMAX technology, UMTS, VoIP, IP TV, HDTV.

ICE-6405: Advanced Optical Fiber CommunicationsCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

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Introduction: Historical Perspective, General Optical Communication system. Key Optical Components: Optical fibers, light sources (Optical transmitter), optical filters and multiplexers, optical modulators, photodiodes (Optical receivers). Signal Propagation in Optical Fiber: optical fiber losses, waveguide theory of optical fiber, nonlinear schrodinger equation for multichannel transmission, Optical channel noise. Channel Impairment: nonlinear effects to system performance, link power budget. Modulation Schemes: ASK, FSK, PSK, QAM, DPSK, QDPSK, OFDM for optical communication, direct and coherent detection of optical signal. Evolution of Optical network: Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) Optical Network. Optical Networking Elements: optical line terminal (OLT), optical network unit (ONU) wavelength converters, optical cross connects, optical add-drop multiplexers, arrayed waveguide gratings (AWG), wavelength routers. Wide Area Optical Network (WDM-WAN): routing and wavelength assignment, Network Architecture, optical packet switching and optical burst switching, optical Metro Network, Optical core network. Optical Access Network: PON, FTTH, FTTB, FTTC networks, IP over WDM, Optical CDMA networks, Control and Management of optical network, Optical submarine networks, next generation future optical networks.

ICE-6406: Advanced Satellite CommunicationsCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Introduction to Satellite Communications: Origin, History, Current Technology State and Overview of Satellite System Engineering. Orbital Mechanics and Launchers: Orbital Mechanics, Look Angle Determination and Orbital Perturbation, Orbit Determination, Launches and Launch Vehicles, Orbital Effects in Communications Systems Performance. Satellites/Space Segment: Satellite Subsystems, Altitude and Orbit Control System Telemetry, Tracking, Command and Monitoring, Power Systems, Communication Subsystems, Satellite Antennas, Equipment Reliability and Qualification. The Earth Segment: Introduction, Receive-Only Home TV Systems, Master Antenna TV System, Community Antenna TV System, Transmit-Receive Earth Stations. The Space Link: Introduction, Equivalent Isotropic Radiated Power, Transmission Losses, The Link Power Budget Equation, System Noise, Carrier-to-Noise Ratio, The Uplink, The Downlink, Effects of Rain, Combined Uplink and Downlink Carrier-to-Noise Ratio, Intermodulation Noise. Interference: Introduction, Interference between Satellite Circuits, energy Dispersal, Coordination. Propagation on Satellite-Earth Paths and Its Influence on Link Design: Absorbitive Attenuation Noise by Atmospheric Gases, Rain Attenuation, Noise due to Rain, Rain Depolarization, Tropospheric Multipath and Scintillation Effects. Satellite Access: Introduction, Single Access, Preassigned FDMA, Demand-Assigned FDMA, SPADE system, Bandwidth-Limited and

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Power-Limited TWT Amplifier Operation, TDMA, Onboard Signal Processing for FDMA/TDM Operation, Satellite-Switched TDMA, Code Division Multiple Access. Types of Satellite Network: Fixed point Satellite Network, INTELSAT, Mobile Satellite Network, INMARSAT, Low Earth Orbit and Non-Geostationary Satellite Network, VSATs, direct Broadcast Satellite Systems, Satellite Navigation and the Global Positioning System.

ICE-6407: Advanced Digital CommunicationCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Characteristics of different types of channels, storage channels; Digital modulation schemes, Digital transmission: Mapping, impulse shaping, receiver design, inter-symbol interference, eye diagram, noise, symbol error probability for multilevel transmission, partial response technique; Equivalent baseband channel; Equalizer, adaptive equalizer; System design with joint Nyquist and matched filter condition; Orthogonal signals, correlation receiver and equivalent matched filter receiver; Optimum detection: Bayes, Maximum Likelihood (ML) and Maximum Aposteriori Probability (MAP) detection, ML symbol by symbol and sequence detection, soft and hard decision, Viterbi algorithm, Viterbi equalizer; Soft input decoding of convolutional codes; Principles of Code Division Multiplex and Access (CDMA), near-far problem, multi-user interference, synchronous orthogonal receiver; Time varying multipath channels for mobile communication, time and Doppler-variant transfer function, statistical channel description, scattering function, AWGN channel with Rayleigh-fading, error probability; Principles of Turbo Coding.

ICE-6408: Advanced Multimedia CommunicationsCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Multimedia Communication: Multimedia Communication model, Elements of Multimedia Systems, User and Network requirements, Multimedia Terminals, Audio-Visual Integration, Application of Multimedia communication Networks. Media Digitization: Digitization principles: Text, Image, Audio, Video, Digital media and Signal Processing Elements. Text and Image Compression: Compression principles, Text compression, Limpel-Ziv-Welsh Coding, Image coding, Image Compression and Format, Digitized Documents and Pictures, JPEG Multimedia System Design. Multimedia Processing and Communication Standards: Audio Fundamentals, Transform coding, Subband coding, Audio compression: Differential Pulse Code modulation, Adaptive Differential PCM, Adaptive predictive coding, Linear predictive coding, MPEG Audio Coder, Analog and Digital Video Formats, Video Compression Principles, H.261, H.263, MPEG standards. Multimedia Database and Distributed

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Multimedia Systems: MDBMS and its Characteristics, Integration in a Database Model, DMS, Main features of DMS, Networking, Multimedia OS, Distributed Multimedia server, Distributed Multimedia application. Signaling Protocols and Networking for Multimedia: Protocols for multimedia communication: RTP, RTCP Signaling protocols: SIP, RTSP, QoS issues in networked Multimedia, QoS guarantees, Enhanced QoS: RSVP, DiffServ, Real-time multimedia streaming techniques, Multicast and Rate Control, Network Traffic, Network queue management, Scheduling. Multimedia Communication Across Networks: Audio/ video packet in the Network Environment, Video transport across generic networks, Multimedia across ATM networks, Multimedia across IP networks and DSLs, IP-based Transport: UDP Vs TCP, Streaming Media with TCP and UDP, Internet access networks and Multimedia Across Wireless.

ICE-6409: Stochastic Theory of CommunicationCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Introduction to Probability Theory: Sample space, Events, Set operations, Axioms of probability, Conditional probabilities, Baye’s formula. Random Variables: Basic concepts, Introduction to Bernoulli, Binomial, Geometric, Poisson, Uniform, Exponential, and Normal random variables, Vector and Multiple random variables, Conditional probability and conditional expectation. Random Process: Definition, Joint distribution of time samples, Mean, Autocorrelation and autocovariance factions, Gaussian and multiple random processes, Discrete and continuous time random processes, Stationary random processes, Continuity, Differential and integration of random processes, Time average of random processes and Ergodic theorems, Fourier series and Karhunen-Loeve expansion. Markov Chains: Introduction to Markov processes, Discrete and continuous time Markov processes, Chapman-Kolmogorov equation, Classification of states, Limiting probabilities, Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, Markov decision processes, Applications of Markov chain in communication. Introduction to Queuing Theory: Preliminaries, Little’s formula, Single server queuing systems, Open and closed systems, M/M/1 queue, Multi-server systems, M/M/c, M/M/c/c and M/M/oo systems, M/G/k queuing systems, Burk’s and Jackson’s theorem, Applications of Queuing theory in communication.

ICE-6410: Information and Coding TheoryCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Definition and measure of information, information capacity, Fundamentals of error control coding: forward error correction (FEC) and automatic repeat request. . Binary coding: and automatic repeat request. Binary Coding: properties of codes, construction of binary compact codes, Convolutional coding: Viterbi and sequential decoding; algebra of linear block codes; error correction and detection using block codes; transmission line codes.

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ICE-6501: Advanced Artificial IntelligenceCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Introduction; Advanced search techniques in AI, knowledge based system design, advanced plan generating systems; Probabilistic Reasoning, decision networks; Making complex decisions: Sequential decision problems, partially observable Markov decision problems (POMDPs); Multiple agent theory: Cooperation among multiple agents; Learning from observations: Inductive learning, decision trees, ensemble learning; Knowledge in learning: Use of logic, explanation based learning, inductive logic programming; Statistical learning: Complete data, hidden nodes (EM method), instance based learning, neural networks and neural belief networks; Fuzzy logic and genetic algorithm.

ICE-6502: Robotics and Intelligent SystemsCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Introduction: History, robot architectures, technical concepts of robotics, computing and robots, actuation and sensing, robotic system design, applications, Coordinate systems: Cartesian coordinates, transformation matrices, reference frames, relative and general transformations, orientation, inverse transformations, graphs, Rigid-Body Dynamics, Mobile Robots, Personal Assistants, and Games, Kinematics: position: Joints, members, reference frames, trigonometric solution, Homogeneous transformations, direct and inverse kinematics, orientation, precision, efficiency/complexity of kinematics solutions, Kinematics: motion: Derivatives, velocity and acceleration of a rigid bodies, differential movement, Jacobian, and singularities, Sensors, measurements and perception: Sensors hierarchy, Dynamic Systems, Sensors and Actuators, interfaces, internal and external sensors, location, computer vision, applications. Structure of robot brain programs. Input statements. Basic repetition structures: timed, forever, and counting. Sensing from within: Proprioception in the Scribbler: battery, stall, and time sensing. Examples of behaviors using proprioception, Loops with conditions: comparison operations and logical connectives in Python, Sensing the world: camera, light, and proximity. Writing reactive behaviors: making decisions in Python. Sensing light and obstacles.Control: Basic concepts in control systems, digital control for position, Behavior-based control. Dynamic Effects of Feedback Control, Analog and Digital Control Systems, Optimal Control, Least-Squares Estimation and Numerical Optimization, Monte Carlo Evaluation and Evolutionary Algorithms, Formal Logic and Computing, Predicate Calculus; 1st-order Logic, and Fuzzy Sets, Probability and Statistics, Multivariate Statistics and Stochastic Control, Stochastic, Robust, and Adaptive Control, Classification of Data Sets, Introduction to Neural Networks, Training Neural Networks, Machine Learning and Knowledge Representation, Task Planning and Multi-Agent Systems. System design: System integration: mechanism, actuators and sensors, and software, Designing insect-like behaviors, Braitenberg vehicles, Making

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decisions, Designing reactive behaviors. Other examples: refrigerator detective, burglar alarm robot.

ICE-6503: Human Computer InteractionCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

The human: introduction, input-output channels, human memory, reasoning and problem solving, Psychology and the design of interactive systems.The computer: introduction, text entry devices, positioning, pointing and drawing devices, display devices, devices for virtual reality and 3D interaction, physical controls, sensors and special devices, paper printing and scanning, Memory.The Interaction: introduction, models of interaction, terms of interaction, the execution evaluation cycle, the interaction framework, ergonomics: - arrangement of controls and displays, the physical environment of interaction, health issues, the use of color, different types of interaction styles, element of WIMP interface.Paradigms: introduction, paradigms for interaction, Design Process:Interaction design basics: introduction, what is design, the process of design, user focus, scenarios, navigation design, screen design and layout, iteration and prototyping.HCI in the software process: introduction, the software life cycle, usability engineering, interactive design and prototyping, design rationale, Design rules: introduction, principles to support usability, standards, guidelines, golden rules and heuristics, HCI patterns.Implementation support: introduction, elements of windowing systems, programming the application, using toolkits, user interface management system.Universal design: introduction, universal design principles, multi-modal interaction, designing for diversity, Models and Theories:Cognitive models: introduction, goal and task hierarchies, linguistic models, the challenge of display-based systems, physical and device models, and cognitive architectures.Socio-organizational Issues and stakeholders Requirements: introduction, organizational issues, and capturing requirements. Communication and collaboration models: introduction, face to face communication, conversation, text-based communication, group workingTask Analysis: introduction, task decomposition, knowledge based analysis, entity-relationship based technique, sources of information and data collection, uses of task analysis.Dialog notation and design: what is dialog, dialog design notations, diagrammatic notations, textual dialog notation, dialog semantics, dialog analysis and design.Application Areas:Groupware: introduction, groupware systems, computer mediated communication, meeting and decision support systems, shared applications and artifacts, framework for groupware, implementing synchronous groupware.CSCW and social issues: introduction, face-to-face communication, conversation, text-based communication, and organizational issues.Hypertext, multimedia and the World Wide Web: introduction, understanding hypertext, finding things, web technology and issues, static web content, dynamic web content.

ICE-6504: Machine LearningCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

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Prediction as regression and classification; Bias-variance tradeoff Non-parametric approaches; Max-margin and support vector machines Basics of PAC learning; Model averaging and ensembles Unsupervised learning; Time series analysis and prediction Sequential models; hidden markov models; Semi supervised learning, Graphical models.

ICE-6505: Soft ComputingCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Fuzzy Set Theory: Introduction, type of fuzzy mathematics, operation of fuzzy sets, fuzzy relation, fuzzy measures and fuzzy set applications. Neural Networks: Biological neural systems, modeling of human brain, neural networks paradigms and training, and applications, Evolutionary Algorithms: Introduction, natural evolution, genetic operators and selection methods theoretical aspects of genetic algorithms (GA) evolution strategy (ES), evolution programming (EP) and their moderate applications. NP hard problem and solution trends, Multi-agent system, Reinforcement learning of multi-age system, Neuro-fuzzy computation, Fuzzy inference.

ICE-6506: Computer VisionCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Introduction: What is computer vision, why is it difficult, background, human vision, application areas.Image formation: geometry and photometryGeometry, brightness, quantization, camera calibration, photometry (brightness and color).Image segmentation: Region segmentation, Edge and line finding, Image processing: Edge detection, corner detection, line and curve detection, SIFT operator, image-based modeling and rendering, mosaics, snakes, Multi-view Geometry: Shape from stereo and motion, feature matching, surface fitting, Active ranging, Image classification: Pixel classification, region classification, face detection and identificationObject Recognition: Model-based methods, appearance-based methods, invariants, Motion analysis: Motion detection and tracking, optical flow, inference of human activity from image sequences.

ICE-6507: Natural Language ProcessingCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

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Introduction to Natural Language Processing: Brief History of NLP Research, Current Applications, Generic NLP System Architecture, Knowledge-Based Versus Probabilistic Approaches, Lexicon and Morphology, Phrase Structure Grammars. Finite-State Techniques: Inflectional and Derivational Morphology, Finite-State Automata in NLP, Finite-State Transducers. Prediction and Part-of-Speech Tagging: Corpora, Simple N-grams, Word Prediction, Stochastic Tagging, Evaluating System Performance. Parsing and Generation: Generative Grammar, Context-Free Grammars, Syntactic Parsing, Parsing and Generation with Contest-Free Grammars, Top Down and Bottom-Up Parsing, Weights and Probabilities, Parsing with Constraint-Based Grammars, Constraint-Based Grammar, Unification. Compositional and Lexical Semantics: Simple Compositional Semantics in Constraint-Based Grammar, Semantic Relations, Word Net, Word Senses, Word Sense Disambiguation, Semantic Parsing. Discourse and Dialogue: Anaphora Resolution, Discourse Relations. Applications: Machine Translation, Question Answering System, Intelligent Information Retrieval.

ICE-6508: Computer Animation and Virtual RealityCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Computer Animation:Introduction: Perception, Early Devices, The Early Days of "Conventional" Animation, Disney, Principles of Animation, Computer Animation Production Tasks, Digital Editing, Digital Video; A Brief History of Computer Animation.Technical Background: The Display Pipeline, Homogeneous Coordinates and the Transformation Matrix, Compound Transformations, Basic Transformations, 3D Geometric Transformation, Representing an Arbitrary Orientation, Round-off error Considerations, Orientation Representation.Interpolation and Basic Techniques:Interpolation, Controlling the motion along a curve, Path following, Animation Languages, Deforming objects, Morphing (2D).Advanced Algorithms: Automatic Camera Control, Hierarchical Kinematics Modeling, Rigid Body Simulation, Enforcing Soft and Hard Constraints, Controlling Groups of Objects, Implicit Surfaces. Virtual Reality, Goals and Applications of Virtual Reality, Pillars of VR - Presence and 3D Multimodal Interaction, Building a Virtual Reality System.Requirements Engineering and Storyboarding: Example-Ship Simulator Design. Object and Scene Modeling: Object Modeling, Geometric (Form) Modeling/ Implementation, Various Representations for Geometry, Performance-Conscious Form Modeling, Scene Construction, Object Placement by Series of Action, Function and Behavior Modeling, Ship Simulator Example Revisited.Output Display: The Human Visual System, Human Depth Perception and Stereoscopy, Visual Display Systems.Sensors and Input Processing: Trackers, Event Generators, Sensor Errors and Calibration.3D Multimodal Interaction Design: Why Go 3D Multimodal? Structured Approach to Interaction/Interface Design, Metaphors, Interface Design Multimodality, Case Studies-Ship Simulator.

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ICE-6601: Advanced Database ManagementCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Advanced SQL, Stored Procedures and Triggers, Query Optimization, Concurrency and Recovery, Database System Architectures, Object-Oriented and Object-Relational Databases, XML and Databases, Database and the Web,Multimedia Database, Parallel Database, Spatial Database, Temporal Database.

ICE-6602: Cloud ComputingCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Introduction to different types of computing: Edge computing, Grid computing, Distributed Computing, Cluster computing, Utility computing, Cloud computing. Cloud computing architecture: Architectural framework; Cloud deployment models; Virtualization in cloud computing; Parallelization in cloud computing; Green cloud. Cloud Bus; Cloud service models: Software as a Service (SaaS); Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS); Platform as a Service (PaaS). Foundational elements of cloud computing: Virtualization; Cloud computing operating System; Browser as a platform; Advanced web technologies (Web 2.0, AJAX and Mashup); Introduction to autonomic systems; Service Level Agreements(SLA); Security/Privacy; Cloud economics; Risks assessment; Current challenges facing cloud computing. Case studies. Practical sessions: Creating Windows servers on the cloud; Creating Linux servers on the cloud; Deploying applications on the cloud; Major cloud solutions.

ICE-6603: Advanced Data MiningCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Data Mining: Introduction, scope, Types of data, Data processing, Measures of Similarity and dissimilarity, Summary statistics, Data visualization. Classification: Basic concepts, Decision tree, Attribute Selection measure, Nearest-neighbor classifiers, Bayesian classifier, Naïve Bayes classifier, Rule-based classifier, Classification by back propagation, ANN, Support vector machine. Cluster analysis: Introduction, Types of clusters, Partitioning methods, Hierarchical methods, Density based methods, Grid-based and Model-based methods, Clustering high dimensional data. Association analysis: Basic concept, Frequently item-set generation: TheApriori principles, Candidate generation, Support count; Rule generation, Mining various kinds of association rules, Correlation analysis. Complicated data mining: Graph-based clustering, Graph mining, Subgraph mining, mining sequential pattern.

ICE-6604: Pattern RecognitionCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

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Basics of pattern recognition: Introduction to pattern recognition, feature extraction, and classification. Bayesian decision theory: Classifiers, Discriminant functions, Decision surfaces, Normal density and discriminant functions, discrete features Parameter estimation methods: Maximum-Likelihood estimation, Gaussian mixture models, Expectation-maximization method, Bayesian estimation Hidden Markov models for sequential pattern classification: Discrete hidden Markov models, Continuous density hidden Markov models, Viterbi algorithm, Baum-Welch algorithm, Dimension reduction methods: Principal component, Fisher discriminant analysis, Non-parametric techniques for density estimation: Parzen-window method, K-Nearest Neighbor method , Linear/non-linear discriminant function based classifiers: Multi-layer Perceptron’s, Support vector machines, Non-metric methods for pattern classification: Non-numeric data or nominal data, Decision trees , Unsupervised learning and clustering: Criterion functions for clustering, Algorithms for clustering: K-means, Hierarchical and other methods, Cluster validation.

ICE-6605: Speech RecognitionCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Introduction; Speech signal: Production, Perception and characterization, Signal processing and analysis; Pattern comparison techniques: Distortion measures, Spectral-distortion measures, Time alignment and normalization; Recognition system design and implementation: Source-coding, Template training, Performance analysis; Connected word models: Two level DP, Level building algorithm, One-pass algorithm; Continuous speech recognition: Sub word units, Statistical modeling, Context- dependent units; Task oriented models.

ICE-6701: Advanced Digital Signal ProcessingCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Overview of digital signal processing: Bandpass signals lowpass equivalent signals, Bandpass sampling, concept of digital frequency, DFT-based filtering, windows,frequency measurement; Spectral estimation: Introduction and periodogram, classical methods, minimum variance method, parametric methods; Multirate signal processing: Applications motivation, decimation and interpolation, sample rate conversion forrational D/I, approximate sample rate conversion for irrational D/I, poly-phase implementation of sampling rate conversion, DFT filter banks, general filter banks – aliascancellation and perfect reconstruction; Adaptive signal processing: Applications, motivation, Wiener filtering, the Widrow LMS algorithm, performance analysis of LMSalgorithm, introduction to the RLS algorithm; Probability and random processes:Overview of probability, probability density function, mean, variance,correlation/covariance, Gaussian random variables, overview of random processes,classification, multiple random processes, examples.

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ICE-6702: Digital Image ProcessingCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Fundamentals of image processing: image formation, representation in pixel and transform domains, reconstruction from projections and interpolation, human visual system, stochastic models for images, enhancement and restoration techniques in spatial and frequency domains, image processing in color space, morphological filters, multi-resolution image processing, image compression techniques and standards, segmentation for edge detection and texture analysis, pattern classification, image watermarking, registration and fusion, emerging applications of image processing.

ICE-6703: Digital Speech ProcessingCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Speech production and phonetics: speech organs, articulatory phonentics, acoustic theory of speech production, vocal tract models, speech analysis: time and frequency domain analysis, formant and pitch estimation, speech coding: linear predictive coding (LPC), vocoders, vector quantization, speech enhancement techniques, speech synthesis: formant and LPC synthesizers, effect of different speeches and languages, automatic speech and speaker recognition: feature extraction, hidden Markov models, noise robustness, measures of similarity, language and accent identification.

ICE-6704: Digital Video ProcessingCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Formation and representation of video, spatio-temporal video sampling, motion analysis and estimation: real versus apparent motion, optical flow, block- and mesh-based methods for motion estimation and region-based stochastic motion modeling, motion segmentation and layered video representations, video filtering: motion-compensated filtering, noise reduction, signal recovery, deblurring, super resolution, mosaicing, deinterlacing and frame-rate conversion, video compression techniques and standards, content-based video indexing and retrieval, video communication: digital television, streaming over IP and wireless networks, error control and watermarking, stereo and multiview sequence processing.

ICE-6705: Biomedical Signal ProcessingCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

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Introduction: Biomedical Signal Processing: Objectives and Contexts, Basics of Bioelectrical Signals, Signal Acquisition and Analysis, Performance Evaluation, The Electroencephalogram: – A Brief Background, The Nervous System, Neural Activities, Action Potentials, The EEG – Electrical Activity Measured on the Scalp, Recording Techniques, EEG Applications , EEG Signal Processing, Modeling the EEG Signal, Artifacts in the EEG, Spectral Analysis, EEG Segmentation ,Signal transform, Abnormal EEG Patterns, Behavior of EEG Sources, BCI, The Electromyogram: The Electrical Activity of Muscles , Amplitude Estimation in the Surface EMG, Spectral Analysis of the Surface EMG, Conduction Velocity Estimation, Modeling the Intramuscular EMG, Intramuscular EMG Signal Decomposition, The Electrocardiogram: A Brief Background, Electrical Activity of the Heart, Generation and Recording of an ECG, Heart Rhythms, Heartbeat Morphologies, Noise and Artifacts, Clinical Applications, ECG Signal Processing, Abnormal ECG Patterns.

ICE-6706: Biomedical Image ProcessingCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Computed Tomography: History, physical principles, Instrumentation, CT image creation, processing and display, Patient factors and other related elements affecting image quality, X-ray: X-ray image formation and contrast, Contrast types, Effects of photon energy, Area contrast, Fluoroscopic imaging system, Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Magnetic Nuclei, Localization and identification, Gamma camera, Imaging methods, fMRI, NMRI, Medical Image Enhancement: Basic concepts, Image Quality Metrics, Basic Image Enhancement Methods (Noise Reduction, Contrast Enhancement, Edge Enhancement), Advanced Image enhancement methods, Medical Image Segmentation: Basic concepts, Contour-based segmentation, Region-based segmentation, Feature extraction, Pattern Recognition.

ICE-6707: BioinformaticsCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Introduction; Molecular biology basics: DNA, RNA, genes, and proteins; Restriction mapping algorithm; Motif in DNA sequences, motif finding algorithms; Genome rearrangements, sorting by reversals and breakpoints; DNA sequence alignments; Gene prediction; Space-efficient sequence alignments, sub-quadratic alignment; DNA sequencing, genome sequencing, protein sequencing, spectrum graphs; Combinatorial pattern matching: Exact pattern matching, heuristic similarity search algorithms, approximate string matching, BLAST, FASTA; Clustering: Microarrays, hierarchical clustering, K-means clustering, corrupted cliques problem, CAST clustering algorithm; Evolutionary trees

ICE-6708: Geoinformatics

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Credit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Introduction: Meaning, scope and interdisciplinary nature of environmental science, Environmental factors, Human and global environment, Environmental stresses-causes, classifications and impacts, Global environmental issues, Environmental impact assessment using geoinformatics, Geo-hazard: Definition-hazards, Earth structure, Vulnerability and risk, Natural and man-made hazards, warning system, forecasting. Earthquake and Tsunami: Earthquake-its causes and measurements, effects of earthquake and risk evaluation. Flood, Drought and Cyclones: Flood-causes, nature and frequency of flooding, mass movement process, Definition, identification, causes and impacts of drought, cyclones-its nature and genesis, physical mechanisms for formation and intensification, Basic Remote Sensing: Definition and principles, RADAR, SLAR, SAR; Geometrical characteristics, resolution; Interferometry, Processing and interpretation. Thermal Remote Sensing: Definitions and fundamentals; Radiation laws, sensing radiant temperature, black body radiation, radiation from real materials; Thermal sensors, characteristics of images and their uses, Remote Sensing in Geosciences: Measurement of image features; Remote sensing survey and mapping, litho logical discrimination, DEM; Resource mapping-agriculture, soil, forest, water, ocean; Monitoring-land use, atmospherical condition, snow, glacier; Environmental application; Airborne geophysical exploration, GIS Introduction: Definition, concept, evolution and prospects of GIS; Components and functions of GIS; Map-classifications and scaling; Georeferencing-coordinate systems and projections, Spatial Data Operation, Concept, Data types, sources, accuracy, precision and resolution, Data base design methodology.

ICE-6709: VLSI Technology and Device ModelingCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

VLSI Si process technology. Si crystal growth and wafer preparation .epitaxial growth on Si substrate. Oxidation of Si. Lithography, diffusion: methods and models. Ion implantation, metallization. Overview and process flow of a CMOS and a BICMOS process. VLSI Si devices, Isolation techniques. Second order effects in BJT devices: base width modulation. Emitter current crowding, kirk effect, Second order effects in MOS devices: short channel effects, narrow width effects, Device scaling rules, Device models, Compact models for bipolar devices, Ebers-Moll type model, Gummel-poon type model and their implementation in SPICE, BJT model in SPICE2, Compact models for MOS transistor and their implementation in SPICELevel 1,2 and 3 MOS model parameters in SPICE, Parameter extraction for bipolar and MOS device models, Geometry, process and temperature dependency of bipolar and MOS model parameters, Parameter optimization, statistics of parameters and statistical modeling.

ICE-6710: Nano TechnologyCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

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Nanosystems and Devices: Introduction- nanomaterials, nanodevices, nanostructures. Nanoscale Lithography: X-ray, Electron-Beam and Ion-Beam; Soft Lithography; Scanning Probe Lithography. Advances in Device Technology: nanoscale silicon devices, process technology, present challenges. Self Assembled, Nanocrystals: self assembly, surface defects and passivation, structures, energy levels, transitions, luminescence and lasing. Nano Electro Mechanical Systems (NEMS): stress in thin films, mechanical to electrical transduction, surface engineering techniques, process flow, NEMS actuators, high aspect ratio system technology. Nano Biotechnology: scope and dimensions; detection of biological species on electrical, mechanical and optical criteria; Bio functionality on silicon; Biochip sensors and systems- structures, process technology.

ICE-6711: Special Topics in ICTCredit: 3 Contact Hours : 3 Hrs/Week

Theoretical Foundations of ICTs & Communities, Physical vs. Virtual Communities: Networked Communities, Introduction to Social Media and Society: Introduction: Media and Society, The Internet and Society, Social Media: History, Definition and Type, Social Media and The Nonprofit Sector, Social Media and The Public Sphere, Social Media and Social Capital, Social Media and Civic Engagement, Social Media and Digital Divide, Social Media and Communities, Social Media and Governments, Social Media and News Organizations, Social Media and Social Movements, Social Media and Citizen Journalism.

CHAIRMAN OF THE DEPARTMENT

Name Contact Details

Dr. Md. Omar Faruk +88073164986fom_06@yahoo.com

FACULTY MEMBERS OF THE DEPARTMENT

S.N. Name & Designation Contact Details

1 Pallab Kanti PodderAssociate Professor

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2 Md. Anwar HossainAssistant Professor

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3 Dr. Md. Omar FarukAssistant Professor

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4 A F M Zainul AbadinAssistant Professor

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5 Md. Imran HossainAssistant Professor (on study leave)

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6 Iffat AraAssistant Professor

ara.iffat@ymail.com

7 Sohag SarkerAssistant Professor

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8 Md. Sarwar HosainAssistant Professor

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9 Muntasir AhmedLecturer (on study leave)

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10 Taskin Noor TurnaLecturer

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