ECE 418Communications Networks
- Faculty
- Engineering
- Last listed
- Spring 2020
No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog since at least Winter 2020 (as far back as Open Data goes) to Spring 2020. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.
In the course catalog from Winter 2020 to Spring 2020; Open Data has no classes for it in that time.
Introduction to communications networks. Network architecture. Probabilistic description of network Queuing analysis. Packet transmission and error control. Dynamic routing. Media access control. Connection admission and congestion control. Design tradeoffs and performance evaluation. Application examples. [Offered: S]
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: Level at least 4A Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering or Software Engineering
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Discussed on r/uwaterloo
5 posts and comments in 4 threads mention ECE 418, May 2015 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.
Winter 2021
Any Thoughts on ECE 260, ECE 318 or ECE 418? 3 points, 1 comment
Winter 2020
What ATEs to take for SE students 1 point, 2 comments
u/sarcasticImouto: “Anyone have any opinions on the following courses? CS486, ECE457B, ECE409, CS458, ECE418, ECE 416, or ECE454”
Fall 2016
What are the easiest ATEs for Software Engineering Students? 3 points, 3 comments
u/uobhsarp: “… ECE Courses ECE 409 Cryptography and System Security ECE 416 Higher Level Network Protocols ECE 418 Communications Networks ECE 423 Embedded Computer Systems ECE 429 Computer Architecture ECE 454 Distributed Computing ECE 455 Embedded Software ECE 457A Cooperative and Adaptive …”
Spring 2015
ECE 481 vs ECE 418 1 point, 1 comment
u/HueTopUW: “I have an interest in both but wanted to know how each of those courses are from people here who have taken them, and possibly which one is "better"”
u/rastamonke: “I haven't taken ECE 418 but I have taken 481. My experience with it was that it was very tough (the midterm average was 26% and was not curved), and the lab marking is very picky. …”
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1976–77 to 1976–77, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1976–77 1 calendar
use in the analysis of deterministic signals in linear systems; bandwidth, distortion and filter characteristics; input/output relationships in linear filters; linear modulation and demodulation techniques; channel and receiver noise.