Anno 2026-27

The course is intended to give students the knowledge to understand problems and technical solutions to operate a communication system. Impact of the environment and of the service type on the preferable solution. Description of the main commercial systems with reference to the studied techniques. It is assumed that students don’t have any background in telecommunications, and will be more interested in their exploitation in industrial environments. As a consequence, the theoretical aspects will be limited and focus will be on application examples. At the end of the course, it is expected that the student will know:
- The physical principles that affect a transmission system
- The transmission techniques and their effectiveness in presence of above mentioned phenomena
- Effects of the interaction between different users and services
- The reasons behind the choices of different techniques in different systems
- The performance that can be achieved and the factors influencing them
All this with the final aim to give students the tools to analyze requirements and consequently adopt a conscious choice based on the requested service.

The exm structure is in two steps:

• a written part is intended to investigate if the student has matured a basic knowledge of the topics and the ability to explain the main characteristics of the techniques/systems tought
• an oral part where the ability of the student to go more in depth and show a more transversal understanding (system level knowledge) of the intaractions among the different parts of a system

Students are admittet to the oral only if the written is sufficient. Both parts will have the same weight towards definition of the final mark.