Topic outline
- General
- Topic 1
Topic 1
Course Rationale and Goals
The course is planned as a senior-level ‘Technical Elective’ course. It assumes that the students have a background in signals and systems, frequency domain spectrum, probability and statistics. The course presents the fundamentals of digital communication systems and evaluates the performance of digital signaling on physical channels.
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Topic 2
Introduction to binary modulated bandpass signaling techniques:Binary On-off Keying (OOK), Phase-shift Keying (BPSK) and Frequency-shift Keying (FSK) techniques will be introduced and examined
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Topic 3
Multilevel modulated bandpass signaling schemes:Quadrature Phase-shift Keying (QPSK), M-ary Phase-shift Keying (MPSK) and Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) techniques will be introduced and examined
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Topic 4
Review of probability and random variables:Review of probability theory, random variables, probability density functions, ensemble averages, distributions and functional transformation of random variables.
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Topic 5
Random processes and the representation of the random noise:Random processes, stationarity and ergodicity, correlation functions, power spectral density, Wiener-Khintchine Theorem, white noise, bandpass processes
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Topic 6
Matched filter receivers:Matched filters in white noise. Integrate-and-dump and correlation realizations of the matched filter.
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Topic 7
Error probabilities for baseband signalling:- Error probabilities of polar unipolar signaling in white Gaussian noise
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Topic 8
Detection and error probability for bandpass signals- Probability or error analysis for bandpass signaling employing coherent and noncoherent detection.
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Topic 9
Comparison of digital signaling systems:- Comparison of digital signaling schemes in terms of probability of error, bandwidth and power requirements
- Topic 10