Course detail
Theory of Communication
FEKT-MTSDAcad. year: 2018/2019
The course deals with principals, methods and characteristics of communication systems. It focuses on modern digital systems and modulation methods in particular. However, student of the course can also intensify his/her knowledge of analog modulations, their parameters and implementations. The theoretical information obtained at lectures are subsequently verified by laboratory measurements with specially designed instruments and also by computer simulations with models built in the MATLAB-SIMULINK environment. During the professional trainings students learn how to compute basic parameters needed for communication system design using practical examples.
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Number of ECTS credits
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
- to distinguish basic types of binary signals, to compute and draw their spectra and describe principles and characteristics of the most widely used line codes,
- to list individual blocks of the digital communication system and explain their functions,
- to describe additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel model, to define bit error rate, to compute probability of error reception in case of both baseband and passband binary signal transmission affected by AWGN,
- to describe principles, to define parameters and to list characteristics of basic and modern modulation methods,
- to explain the cause of intersymbol interferences (ISI) and Nyquist strategy of zero ISI in sampling moments, to draw and describe impulse responses of both raised cosine and Gaussian shaping filters,
- to describe the principle of channel equalization, to explain operations of adaptive equalizer and decision feedback equalizer,
- to explain the principle and importance of synchronization in the communication system, to explain the purpose of scrambling, to design the block diagram of a simple self-synchronizing scrambler,
- to describe principles of the automatic repeat request (ARQ) and the forward error correction (FEC), to explain the principle of interleaving, to describe methods of block and convolutional interleaving,
- to explain the difference between natural and uniform methods of sampling, the cause of aperture distortion and methods of its suppression,
- to describe principles of the pulse width modulation (PWM), the pulse position modulation (PPM) and the pulse density modulation (PDM),
- to explain the difference between uniform and non-uniform methods of quantization, to compute the power of the quantization noise, to draw the graphs of compressor and expander transfer functions,
- to describe principles and to list basic characteristics of pulse coded modulations (PCM, DPCM, DM, SDM),
- to explain principles of basic methods of signal multiplexing and multiple access,
- to describe and design the orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM), to define its basic parameters and to list its typical characteristics and examples of application,
- to describe basic types of intensity modulations of light used in optoelectronics,
- to define and compute basic quantities used in the information theory (self-information, entropy, redundancy, mutual information, channel capacity), to explain the principle of the trellis coded modulation (TCM).
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Co-requisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
- up to 10 points for all laboratory measurements, during them student always obtain points at the end of each lesson when teacher verify correctness of results measured and conclusions stated in the given protocol,
- up to 10 points for the professional trainings according to the result of written examination of student’s knowledge which is usually in the program of the 5th training,
- up to 10 points for all computer exercises, during them student obtain points for correctly processed tasks,
- up to 70 points for compulsory exam, which has a written form and only students who passed all laboratory measurements and professional trainings can try to pass it. If the examiner has a problem with the evaluation of the written exam, he/she can put supplement oral questions to the student.
Course curriculum
2) Digital communication system. Mediums for data transfer.
3) Noise in communication systems. Receiving of noised signal.
4) Amplitude and frequency modulations and keyings.
5) Phase modulation and keying. Problems of BPSK data transfer.
6) Digital modulations with harmonic carrier (QPSK, 8PSK, O-QPSK, MSK, FFSK, GMSK).
7) Digital modulations with harmonic carrier (π/4-DQPSK, 8PSK, MQAM, CAP).
8) Reduction of intersymbol interference (ISI). Equalizers. Synchronization. Scrambling.
9) Synchronization. Scrambling. Methods of error control. Pulse modulations (PAM, PWM, PDM, PPM).
10) Digital representations of analog signals. Quantization. Pulse coded modulations (PCM, DPCM, DM, SDM).
11) Multiplexing and multiple access. Orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM).
12) Modulations in optoelectronics. Effect of the noise in passband.
13) Introduction to the information theory. Coding. Trellis coded modulation (TCM).
Work placements
Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Recommended reading
HSU H. P. Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Analog and Digital Communications. 2nd ed., New York (USA) : McGraw-Hill, 2003. 331 p. ISBN 0-07-140228-4 (EN)
PROAKIS J. G. Digital Communications. 4th ed., New York (USA) : McGraw-Hill, 2001. 1002 p. ISBN 0-07-232111-3 (EN)
Classification of course in study plans
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2) Digital communication system. Mediums for data transfer.
3) Noise in communication systems. Receiving of noised signal.
4) Amplitude and frequency modulations and keyings.
5) Phase modulation and keying. Problems of BPSK data transfer.
6) Digital modulations with harmonic carrier (QPSK, 8PSK, O-QPSK, MSK, FFSK, GMSK).
7) Digital modulations with harmonic carrier (π/4-DQPSK, 8PSK, MQAM, CAP).
8) Reduction of intersymbol interference (ISI). Equalizers. Synchronization. Scrambling.
9) Synchronization. Scrambling. Methods of error control. Pulse modulations (PAM, PWM, PDM, PPM).
10) Digital representations of analog signals. Quantization. Pulse coded modulations (PCM, DPCM, DM, SDM).
11) Multiplexing and multiple access. Orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM).
12) Modulations in optoelectronics. Effect of the noise in passband.
13) Introduction to the information theory. Coding. Trellis coded modulation (TCM).
Fundamentals seminar
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
PCM, DPCM, DM.
Formats of digital signals. Their parameters in the time and frequency domains.
ASK, BFSK, DPSK.
Test (10 points). Shift keying I.
Shift keying II.
Exercise in computer lab
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2) Receiving of noised signal using matched filter and correlation receiver.
3) Basic keying techniques (ASK, FSK, BPSK).
4) Multi-state digital modulations (QPSK, 16QAM).
5) Pulse modulations (PCM, DM, ADM, SDM).
6) Spread-spectrum multiple access (DS-SS, FH-SS).
Laboratory exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
BPSK.
QPSK.
Scrambler/descrambler.
Data communication bz means of modem.
Spare and credit hour.