EC ENGR 132B · EE 132BData Communications and Telecommunication Networks
Electrical and Computer Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Layered communications architectures. Queueing system modeling and analysis. Error control, flow and congestion control. Packet switching, circuit switching, and routing. Network performance analysis and design. Multiple-access communications: TDMA, FDMA, polling, random access. Local, metropolitan, wide area, integrated services networks.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: course 131A.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
EC ENGR 132B
- EC ENGR 131AProbability and Statistics
1 direct requisite. Showing 6 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
EC ENGR 132B
- EC ENGR M119Fundamentals of Embedded Networked Systems
- COM SCI M119Fundamentals of Embedded Networked Systems
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.