Introduction

During the past few years, there has been an exponential growth in the usage of the internet. The fast development of economy and society requires modern and high-performance communications systems that can cater for massive deployment of Internet of Things, while still offering acceptable levels of energy consumption, equipment cost and network deployment and operation cost. It needs to support a wide variety of applications and services requiring increased spectral efficiency, higher data rates, low latency and high reliability. Communication technologies need to meet the growing connectivity requirements for new use cases, such as ultra-low latency or high reliability cases, and new applications for industry, opening new revenue streams also for operators. The M. Tech. program in Communication Systems prepares students for an advanced engineering career by in-depth understanding of modern communication systems at all layers and their associated signal processing methods. The program provides students with an opportunity to learn the specialization in depth by updating and renewing their technical knowledge in a rapidly changing telecommunications industry.

Objectives of Program

Graduates from the program will have in-depth knowledge and critical awareness of theoretical and practical solutions to problems at the forefront of communications and the processing of signals. They would be ready for careers in fields such as development, research, operations and management of next-generation telecommunication networks and information processing systems.

Expected Graduate Attributes

• The graduates of this program will have strong fundamentals in modern communications technology and signal processing methods.
• Understanding of cutting-edge research on future generations of wireless communication.
• Analytical and experimental skills required to design and implement next-generation communication systems for various applications like Internet-of-Things, smart health, Smart City, Intelligent Transportation Systems.
• Ability to do critical and creative thinking, and to conduct independent and original research and scholarship.
• Ability to apply existing skills and knowledge to identify and formulate new problems, produce new ideas, approaches or actions.
• Ability to teach and express ideas in both written and oral formats.

Learning Outcomes

• Ability to statistically characterize and evaluate the performance of communication systems. 
• Ability to apply the different methods for signal detection and estimation to real world engineering problems and advanced research. 
• Develop understanding of cutting-edge research on future generations of wireless communication. 
• Analyze multi-user networks and understanding of techniques like opportunistic communication, multiuser diversity, superposition coding and successive interference cancellation. 
• Implement end-to-end wireless communication systems with various MIMO technologies like maximal ratio combining, OFDM, interleaving/de-interleaving, and Alamouti codes. 
• Ability to master a specific set of methods appropriate to their dissertation, with the depth needed to produce methodologically rigorous research. 
• Carry out research work demonstrating scientific problem-solving and generate IPR.