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EE851 Advanced Digital Communications System
Campus MCS
Programs PG
Session Spring Semester 2017
Course Title Advanced Digital Communications System
Course Code EE851
Credit Hours 3+0
Pre-Requisutes
Course Objectives This course is designed to prepare students for engineering work in the industry and for advanced graduate work in the area of digital communications. The course covers concepts and useful tools for design and performance analysis of transmitters and receivers in the physical layer of a communication system. MATLAB will be used for some exercises.
Detail Content
  • Digital Communications Signal Processing, Classification of Signals, Spectral Density, Autocorrelation, Random Signals
  • Signal Transmission through linear Systems, Bandwidth Concepts, Formatting of Information, Pulse Code Modulation, Uniform and Non Uniform Quantization Base Band Modulation
  • Baseband Demodulation, Error Performance Degradation, Detection of Binary Signal in Gaussian Noise, Inter Symbol Interference
  • Equalization Basics, Band Pass Modulation and Demodulation, Digital Bandpass Modulation Techniques, Detection of Signal in Gaussian Noise
  • Coherent Detection, Non-Coherent Detection, Complex Envelope, Error Performance for Binary, M-ary Signaling and Performance, Error Performance for Binary Systems
  • Discrete Time Approach
  •  Preset and Adaptive Equalization, Channel Coding, Waveform Coding, Linear Block Codes
  •  Cyclic Codes, Hamming and BCH codes, Convolution Encoding and Decoding Reed-Solomon Codes
  • Synchronization, Receiver Synchronization, Network Synchronization Spread spectrum techniques, PN Sequences, DS-SS and FH-SS, Synchronization
  • Source Coding, Amplitude Quantization, Differential PCM, Adaptive Prediction Coding of Image/video
  • Project presentations Catch-up and Review
  • Final Exam
Text/Ref Books Digital Communications: Fundamentals and Applications, B. Sklar, Prentice
Time Schedule Spring Semester 2015
Faculty/Resource Person Dr. Adnan Ahmed Khan, PhD