Communication Systems

What you will learn

On successful completion of this course you will be able to:

• Assess and evaluate the modern communications systems studied in terms of their performance in a hostile environment,
• Model and analyse the performance of modern communication systems,
• Relate the performance of a modern military communication system to its design characteristics.

Core content

• Multiplexing and multiple access: FDM, TDM, statistical multiplexing, multiple access methods FDMA, TDMA and CDMA,
• Fibre-optic communications,
• Error correction codes: Block, convolutional and trellis coding. LDPC and Turbo codes,
• Wideband multicarrier techniques: Spread spectrum techniques, OFDM. MIMO systems,
• Cryptography: Terminology, secret key and public-key systems, authentication, OTAR,
• GSM: 1G and 2G cellular radio systems. GSM system architecture, signalling, framing  and frequency bands,
• GPRS and EDGE: Enhancements to GSM. 3G systems and signalling,
• 4G systems and signalling, 5G developments,
• HF systems. Scatter-based systems.,
• Software Defined Radio,
• Satellite communications,
• GPS. System description,
• Military Communications Systems.

Upgrade to a professional qualification

When taken as a Short Course for Credit, 10 credit points can be put towards either the Military Electronic Systems Engineering MSc, Military Electronic Systems Engineering Foundations PgCert, or Communication Electronic Warfare PgCert.

Find out more about short course credit points.

Who should attend

This course is suitable for those who need an understanding of modern military and commercial communications systems, the threats that they face and with the measures that may be taken to protect them.

Students must have completed Communication Principles, Electromagnetic Propagation and Devices and Signal Processing, Statistics and Analysis in order to take this as a Short Course for Credit. There are no prerequisites if taken as a Standalone Short Course.

Speakers

• Dr Peter Barker

Concessions

A limited number of MOD sponsored places are available.

Location and travel

Cranfield Defence and Security (CDS) is a Cranfield School based at the Ministry of Defence establishment on the Oxfordshire/Wiltshire borders.

Shrivenham itself lies in the picturesque Vale of the White Horse, close to the M4 motorway which links London and South Wales. It is 7 miles from Swindon, the nearest town, which lies off the M4 at the hub of Britain’s motorway network.

Bath, Cheltenham, Bristol and Oxford are all within an hour’s drive and London less than two hours away by car.

All visitors must be pre-booked in at reception by the person they are visiting on the campus.

For further location and travel details