Course


IERG4340 – Emerging Technologies in Information Engineering

IERG Elective MIEG Elective Undergraduate
Co-requisite(s):
Unit(s):
3
Pre-requisite(s):
Exclusion:
IEMS5717
Term Offered:
Term 2
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This course introduces emerging technologies in telecommunications and internet engineering. These new technologies are discussed and compared with conventional ones in terms of market demand, system requirements, design principles, applications, limitations and their impacts to society. The topics include telecommunication network infrastructure, advanced optical metro/access networks and wireless LTE technologies, fiber-wireless convergence, cloud/edge computing, software defined networking, network function virtualization, data center networking, smart automation systems, etc. The topics may vary. Case studies.