
25751: Communication Systems
Course Name: Communication Systems
Course Number: 25751
Prerequisite(s): 25732 (Engineering Probability and Statistics) and 25742 (Signals and Systems)
Co-requisite(s): -
Units: 3
Level: Undergraduate
Description:
This course aims to familiarize students with telecommunication systems and noise in these systems, continuous-time modulations, and initial acquaintance with pulse and digital modulations.
Syllabus:
References:
Course Number: 25751
Prerequisite(s): 25732 (Engineering Probability and Statistics) and 25742 (Signals and Systems)
Co-requisite(s): -
Units: 3
Level: Undergraduate
Description:
This course aims to familiarize students with telecommunication systems and noise in these systems, continuous-time modulations, and initial acquaintance with pulse and digital modulations.
Syllabus:
- Introduction to communication systems
- Basic concepts of a communication system
- Analog and digital messages
- Channel effects
- Analysis and Transmission of Signals
- The Fourier Transform
- Properties of the Fourier Transform
- Fourier Transforms of Periodic Signals
- Transmission of Signals Through Linear Systems
- Power and Energy Signals
- Signal bandwidth
- Signal Distortion Over a Communication Channel
- Linear Distortion
- Distortion Caused by Multipath Effects
- Fading Channels
- Distortion Caused by Channel Nonlinearities
- Link Power Budget Analysis
- Ideal Versus Practical Filters
- Hilbert Transform
- Correlation and Spectral Density: Energy Signals
- Correlation and Spectral Density: Power Signals
- Amplitude Modulation and Demodulation
- Concept of Amplitude Modulation
- Double Sideband-Suppressed Carrier Modulation
- DSB Coherent Detection
- Need for Synchronization in Coherent Detection
- Costas Receive
- Single-Sideband Modulation
- Baseband Representation of Modulated Waves and Band-Pass Filters
- Angle Modulation
- Basic Definitions
- Properties of Angle-Modulated Waves
- Relationship between PM and FM Waves
- Narrow-Band Frequency Modulation
- Wide-Band Frequency Modulation
- Transmission Bandwidth of FM Waves
- Demodulation of FM Signals
- Frequency Division Multiplexing
- Phase Locked Loop
- Digitization of Analog Source Signals
- Sampling theorem
- Signal Reconstruction from Uniform Samples
- Practical Issues in Signal Sampling and Reconstruction
- Quantization
- Pulse Code Modulation (PCM)
- Digital Telephony: PCM IN T1/E1 SYSTEMS
- Source Coding: Vocoders and Video Compression
- Principles of Digital Data Transmission
- Digital Communication Systems
- Baseband Line Coding
- Polar Signaling
- On-Off Signaling
- Bipolar Signaling
- Pulse Shaping
- Intersymbol Interferences (ISI)
- Nyquist’s First Criterion for Zero ISI
- Controlled ISI or Partial Response Signaling
- Eye Diagrams
- PAM: M-ARY Baseband Signaling
- Digital Passband Systems
- Basic Binary Passband Modulations (ASK, PSK, FSK)
- PSD of Digital Passband Modulations (ASK, PSK, FSK)
- Detection of Digital Passband Modulations (ASK, PSK, FSK)
- M-ARY Digital Passband Modulation
- M-ary ASK and Noncoherent Detection
- M-ary PSK, PAM, and QAM
- Mapping of Digitally Modulated Waveforms onto Constellations of Signal Points
- Digital Receivers
- Detection Error
- Simple BER analysis of a digital receiver (2-level PAM) using vector representation of signal and noise
- Multiple Access Control
- Time Division Multiple Access Control (TDMA)
- Frequency Division Multiple Access Control (FDMA)
- Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)
- Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA)
- Random Access Techniques
- ALOHA
- Carrier Sense Multiple Access
- Applications in Mobile Communication Systems and Wireless/Wired Local Area Networks
References:
- B. P. Lathi and Z. Ding, Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems, 5th Edition, Oxford University Press, 2019
- S. Haykin and M. Moher, Introduction to Analog and Digital Communications, 2nd Edition, Wiley, 2007
- A. Bruce Carlson and Paul B. Crilly, Communication Systems, 5th Edition, McGraw Hill, 2009
- A. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 5th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2011
Last Update: 2024-04-30