EHB 308 - Communications II

Course Objectives

1. Understanding the basic concepts for the analysis of baseband and bandpass digital communication techniques and systems

2. Acquiring the ability to design advanced digital communication systems and learning performance analysis methods.

3. Having competence in entropy, channel capacity and channel coding concepts

Course Description

Introduction. PCM, PCM hierarchy structures, synchronous digital hierarchy. Noise analysis in PCM. Simple line codes. Binary and multi-level baseband data transmission, intersymbol interference, Nyquist pulse shaping. Optimum (matched filter, correlator) receivers for AWGN channel, error performance analysis. Binary and multi-level bandpass data transmission, bandpass digital modulation techniques, amplitude, frequency and phase shift keying (ASK, FSK, PSK), quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), signal constellation, optimum (matched filter, correlator) receivers for AWGN channel, error performance analysis. Differential modulation/demodulation. Information and entropy concepts, Introduction to source coding. Channel capacity concept, Shannon theorem. Introduction to channel coding, simple block codes.