This module covers the following: Fundamentals of satellite communication systems: orbit types, ground stations, support subsystems. Communications system...

This module covers the following: Fundamentals of satellite communication systems: orbit types, ground stations, support subsystems. Communications system requirements, constraints and regulations. Data rate fundamentals: data volume, data compression, error correction and coding. Link design: link equation and link budgets, antenna gain, modulation and coding, atmospheric loss and rain attenuation. Multiple access types and beam switching. Communication subsystem payload. Deep space communications. Inter-spacecraft communications. Cubesats and ground-station networks. Iridium satellite network. Encryption. Space weather effects on communications systems. Inter-satellite communications, constellations for scientific, terrestrial, maritime and aeronautical use, including next generation broadband data and multi-media services.Telecommunications infrastructure and services, including business models. Defense telecoms. Emerging telecoms applications. Telecommunications in developing countries.

In this course, we cover the fundamental topics of economics of developing countries. This includes the literature on growth, income inequality and poverty,...

Economics of Developing Countries (SOCS0077)

In this course, we cover the fundamental topics of economics of developing countries. This includes the literature on growth, income inequality and poverty, health and fertility, education, market failures and trade. The purpose of the course is twofold. First, to understand the interplay between politics and institutions on growth rates, income inequality and poverty in a developing country context. Second, to understand and apply formal, but relatively simple, economic models. We will discuss papers that use quantitative methods to derive empirical results, and have guest lectures from practitioners in the field of international development, thereby increasing your understanding of an economist’s “tool kit”.