Università Roma Tre

Fundamentals of data communications and networking
Circuit and packet switching, connection-oriented and connectionless services, network topologies and classification. Personal area networks (PAN), local area networks (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN), wide area networks (WAN), storage area networks (SAN). Network architectures and protocols.
Signal characteristics and Fourier analysis. Baseband and passband transmissions. Pulse code modulation (PCM), frequency division multiplexing (FDM), time division multiplexing (TDM), code division multiplexing (CDM), orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM).

Cable communication systems
Twisted pairs, coaxial cables and optical fibers. Digital subscriber lines (DSL). connectors. Laser diodes, LEDs and photodetectors. Synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH), synchronous optical networks (SONET). Fiber optic communication systems. Attenuation, dispersion, amplification in fiber optic systems. Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM). Optical transport networks (OTNs). Automatically switched transport networks (ASTN). Generalized multi-protocol label switching (GMPLS). Fiber optic access networks; passive optical networks (PON); fiber to the X (FTTX) systems. Fiber Channel.

Wireless communication systems
Propagation of electromagnetic waves. Fading. Optical wireless systems. Microwave transmission systems. Antennas for wireless communications. IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi). Bluetooth. Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). Long Range WAN (LoRaWAN).

Mobile communications systems
Evolution of mobile systems, 4G and 5G systems.

Network security
Security Dimensions and levels. Symmetric and asymmetric cryptography. Data encryption standard (DES) and advanced encryption standard (AES). Wireless equivalent privacy (WEP) and Wi-Fi protected access (WPA). Quantum Key Distribution (QKD).

Andrew S. Tanenbaum - Computer Networks – 6 edizione
Stamatios V. Kartalopoulos - Next Generation Intelligent Optical Networks
Mahbub Hassan - Wireless and Mobile Networking